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 [...]
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Opera in Video
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Music Online
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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
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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, [...]
19th Century British Library Newspapers
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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, [...]
