Opera in Video

Opera in Video contains 42 videos, equalling 84 hours of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections  are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. The collection presents an overview of the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors.

Specially developed controlled vocabularies let users browse by composer, genre, performer, ensemble, time period, and role.

Music Online

Music Online allows users to cross search the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products to which York U subscribes. Music Online can cross-search any combination of these databases:

• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Classical Scores Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Dance in Video
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
• Opera in Video

Dance in Video

Dance in Video contains 150 videos, equalling 112 hours of  dance productions and documentaries by  performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.

Specially developed controlled vocabularies let users browse by composer, choreographer, genre, performer, ensemble, and role.

19th Century British Library Newspapers

The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers selected by the British Library to represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Included are newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

Newspaper images can be magnified for easier reading or reduced for on screen navigation. You can save and print article images, create persistent links and email them to others.