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Motion Pictures, Theater, Radio and Television |
| Ahmanson Theatre/Mark Taper Forum (http://www.taperahmanson.com/) |
| The Los Angeles Theatre Center Group. |
| Aisle Say (http://www.aislesay.com/index.html) |
| Theater review source covering productions from New York City to San Francisco. Links to regional theater review sources are also provided. |
| Artslynx International Arts Resources (http://www.artslynx.org/) |
| Extensive directory of resources in theater, dance, music, and more. |
| Balletcompanies.com (http://www.balletcompanies.com/) |
| Over 2000 links to ballet and dance companies. |
| The Black Film Center/Archive (http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html) |
| Extensive set of resources (listings, web sites, history) for black cinema. More an academic than a review site. |
| culturekiosque (http://www.culturekiosque.com/) |
| An E-zine with a decided European flavor that contains news, features, criticism, and interviews on jazz, opera, classical music, art and archeology, dance, food, technology and nouveau. |
| Cyberdance (http://www.cyberdance.org/) |
| Over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet. |
| ELAC theatre (http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/857) |
| Information on the Theatre Arts program at ELAC, as well as an extensive "Theatrepedia" of links other theatre-related web sites, a collection original plays online, and a bulletin board for discussion of a wide variety of theatre topics. |
| Encyclopedia of Television (http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.html) |
| From the Museum of Broadcast Communications. "Includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information." |
| Epguides.com (http://epguides.com) |
| This site contains Episode Lists for over 1550 TV shows. Each list contains titles and airdates. For over 375 shows there is a more detailed episode guide containing guest stars and plot summaries. Recommended for information on Sci-fi, fantasy and horror television series. |
| Greatest Films (http://www.filmsite.org/) |
| Timothy Dirks' choice of the 100 greatest English language films of all times, with in-depth reviews. 100 runner-ups are reviewed briefly. Includes a beautiful collection of hundreds of film posters. |
| Hollywood Online (http://www.hollywood.com/) |
| Movies, videos, multimedia, industry news, and more. |
| The Internet Broadway Database (http://www.ibdb.com/) |
| From the League of American Theatres and Producers' Research Dept. |
| Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/) |
| Up-to-date information on approximately 150,000 movies. Includes virtually every aspect of cinema that might interest fans. Film entries include numerous links to related movies. |
| McCoy's Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies (http://www.stetson.edu/departments/csata/thr_guid.html) |
| Maintained by Ken McCoy at Stetson Univ. Comprehensive and up-to-date resource for locating a broad variety of Internet resources on theater and performance. |
| MovieFone.com (http://www.moviefone.com/) |
| Movie schedules at your local theater. |
| The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies and Videos (http://www.moviemom.com/) |
| Clear, selective guide to films and videos of interest to families and children. By author, film critic and mother Nell Minow. |
| Museum of Television and Radio (http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/3390) |
| Features the Museum of Television and Radio, which has locations in Los Angeles, California, and New York City. Discusses tours, exhibitions, seminars, radio broadcasts, and membership. |
| National Film Preservation Board (http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/) |
| A public advisory group to the Librarian of Congress...that...works to ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America's film heritage. Includes a comprehensive list of titles added to the National Film Registry since 1989. |
| National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/) |
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| 10000 Watts: Radio/TV Directory (http://100kwatts.tmi.net/) |
| Database of radio and television stations in the US and some bordering Canadian and Mexican stations. Searchable in multiple ways. |
| Parental Media Guide (http://www.parentalguide.org/) |
| Brings together industry guidelines and ratings systems on the content of movies, video games, recordings, and broadcasting. |
| Playbill On-Line (http://www1.playbill.com/playbill/) |
| Search the database by theater, show or city (you can even specify for kids), and you get details about the show and the areas: local maps, restaurants, and hotels. Order tickets on-line. |
| Premiere (http://www.premiere.com/) |
| Online version of chatty, sophisticated movie magazine adds innovative features such as live chats with actors. |
| Public Broadcasting Service (http://www.pbs.org/) |
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| Public Radio Fan (http://www.publicradiofan.com/) |
| Features a database of program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world. |
| Reel Classics: Elizabeth's Classic Movie Homepage (http://www.reelclassics.com/) |
| Star pictures, biographies and filmographies, artifacts, sound bites, movie clips and celebrity mailing addresses. |
| Screenit.com! Entertainment reviews for parents (http://www.screenit.com) |
| The #1 Source of Entertainment Reviews for Parents: We offer the most comprehensive and detailed reviews available anywhere. |
| Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll 2002 (http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/) |
| Critics' choices for the top 10 films of all times, taken every 10 years since 1952. |
| Special T.V. Resources (http://www.specialweb.com/tv/) |
| Networks worldwide, shows, actors, magazines and more. |
| Theatrecrafts.com (http://www.theatrecrafts.com/) |
| Developed at the Univ. of Exeter's School of Performance Art and by Jon Primrose. "The aim of theatrecrafts.com is to eventually be the best resource for practical information and advice about technical theatre techniques for theatre folk at any level." |
| Theatrehistory.com (http://www.theatrehistory.com/index.html) |
| Includes script archive (including many works in the public domain), a "Today in Theatre History" section, and other sections concerned with the dramaturgical arts. |
| TheaterMania.com (http://www.theatermania.com/) |
| Lists productions in 25 locations in the U.S. plus locations in Canada, England and Japan. |
| TV Guide (http://www.tvguide.com/) |
| TV listings, interviews, and news online. Personalized viewing grids based on user's ZIP code. |
| Yahoo! Broadcast (http://platinum.yahoo.com/) |
| A guide to real-time and near-time sports and games broadcasting, talk-radio programs, interviews and events. |
| Zap2It (http://tvlistings2.zap2it.com/zipcode.asp?partner_id=national) |
| Exhaustive TV listings, including movie reviews and cast/crew information, customized by the viewer's geographic area. |
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Music |
| All About Jazz (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/) |
| Release announcements, reviews, concert information, interviews, articles, biographies, and more, covering all jazz genres. |
| All-Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/index.html) |
| Ongoing project to review and rate popular music. |
| All-Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/index.html) |
| Ongoing project to review and rate popular music. |
| America's Jazz Heritage (http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/) |
| From the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibits Service. Includes sound files requiring the RealAudio G2 plugin. |
| Andante (http://www.andante.com) |
| Documents and preserves the 20th century's recorded heritage of classical music, and serves as the de facto primary source of information on classical music for everyone from professionals to dedicated amateurs, through a comprehensive Web site containing extensive information and commentary on musical works, composers and performing artists ; including a library of recorded music accessible through streaming audio and direct MP3 file downloads. |
| Aria Database (http://www.aria-database.com/) |
| Over 1000 arias, searchable by name, opera, language, composer, voice type, range, keyword, and availability of a MIDI sound file, translation or text. |
| Billboard.com (http://www.billboard.com/bb/index.jsp) |
| Offers selected articles from 'Billboard magazine' featuring daily music news, album charts, chart rewind, music singles and airplay categorized by genre, actual music singles available for download, Latin music, home video rentals, entertainment industry essentials and the Billboard family. A subscription is required to access Billboard.com Premium Services, which offers online access to the full current issue of 'Billboard magazine' and charts one day early, plus unpublished charts. |
| The Blue Highway (http://www.thebluehighway.com/) |
| Brief essays on the history of the blues, numerous downloadable sound files, and artist biographies. This site links to virtually any blues-related cyberspace locale. |
| Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (http://www.cerritoscenter.com/) |
| Located in Cerritos, Calif. |
| Classical music navigator (http://www.wku.edu/%7Esmithch/music/index2.htm) |
| Five compilations of material: (1) a master, alphabetically-arranged, "Composers" list of 444 individuals; (2) a "Basic Library" list of works culled from this master list(3) a "Geographical Roster" in which the names of the 444 composers are listed under the names of the countries with which they were (/are) associated; (4) an alphabetically-arranged "Index of Forms and Styles" ; and (5) a "Glossary." |
| Classical Music Pages (http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/) |
| "This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music--its history, biographical information about composers...[and] explanations of the various musical forms." |
| Country Music Hall of Fame (http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/) |
| Brief biographies of honorees, country music timelines, and more. The museum opened in May 2001. |
| DownBeat.com (http://www.downbeat.com/) |
| Online version of the jazz magazine. |
| DW3 Classical Music Resources |
| Comprehensive collection of noncommercial sites in a dozen languages. |
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| 8notes.com (http://www.8notes.com) |
| This site offers over 1500 free sheet music pieces and riffs. The music is browsable by category (classical, popular, film & television, traditional, etc.) and by instrument, and is searchable by composer, title words, and instrument. Online lessons for several instruments and a directory of over 1000 music-related sites are also included. 8notes.com owns the copyright to most of the sheet music provided (in-house editions of out-of-copyright music) and has permissions for the rest. Subjects: Music; Music -- Directories; Music -- Instruction and study. Copyright 2001 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, lii.org. |
| Essentials of Music (http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/) |
| Accessible but not simplistic introduction to classical music. Requires RealPlayer plugin. |
| Folk Music: An Index to Recorded Resources (http://folkindex.mse.jhu.edu/) |
| Database of 30,000 songs and 13,000 performers. From Johns Hopkins University. |
| Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America (http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html) |
| Lesley Nelson presents information and historical background on English, Scottish, Welsh, and American folk music tunes and lyrics. Nelson offers access to sound files, lyrics, histories, and links to additional resources. |
| Gramophone (http://www.gramophone.co.uk) |
| Features "Gramophone," a monthly classical music magazine published by Haymarket Publishing that contains reviews of classical music. Notes that each issue includes interviews with recording artists, audio equipment news and reviews, and a selection of the top ten discs of the month. |
| Grand Old Opry (http://www.opry.com/) |
| Official site of the world's longest running live radio program. |
| Guitar Notes (http://www.guitarnotes.com/) |
| Includes thousands of links, classified ads and auctions, sound files, and more. |
| Heart and Soul: A Celebration of African American Music (http://www2.worldbook.com/features/aamusic/html/intro.htm) |
| "World Book editors have assembled a look at some of the most famous African American musicians and the impact they have made on different forms of music. The articles in this feature were taken from World Book. There are also numerous links to Web sites that provide more information on influential African American musicians and compositions." |
| Historic American Sheet Music (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/) |
| Digital images of 3,042 pieces of sheet music from Duke Univ.'s collections, published between 1850 and 1920. Sophisticated search capabilities. |
| Hollywood Bowl (http://www.hollywoodbowl.org/index.cfm) |
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| I Hear America Singing (http://www.loc.gov/ihas/) |
| Portal to the Library of Congress' music and performing arts collections, integrating the collections, commissions and live performances there. |
| Jazz: a Film by Ken Burns (http://www.pbs.org/jazz/) |
| Created to tie in with the ten-part PBS series. |
| The Jazz Review (http://www.jazzreview.com/) |
| Something for almost every jazz fan. |
| Los Angeles County Music Performing Arts Commission (http://www.lacountyarts.org/) |
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| Los Angeles Philharmonic. (http://www.laphil.org/main.cfm?section=home&season=2002) |
| Features the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Includes subscription information for the upcoming season. Offers access to press releases and a discography of the orchestra's recorded works. |
| Max Hunter Folk Song Collection (http://www.smsu.edu/folksong/maxhunter/) |
| Resource for students and fans of traditional American music. A collection of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folksongs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. Hosted by Southwest Missouri State Univ. and the Springfield-Greene County Library. Links for RealAudio, AIFF, and MIDI files. |
| Metropolitan Opera (New York) (http://www.metopera.org/) |
| Information about the season, ticket information, news releases, broadcast information, the Met Quiz, and more. |
| Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/mussmhome.html) |
| "Contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra." |
| Music History 102 (http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/) |
| From the Internet Public Library. A survey of Western classical music, with an emphasis on the landmark works of the great composers, and on stylistic trends in music from the Middle Ages to the present. Includes RealAudio sound files. |
| Music in the Public Domain (http://www.pdinfo.com/) |
| Information and resources for identifying public domain materials. Includes a 3000 song alphabetical list of royalty-free music. |
| Music Search (http://www.musicsearch.com/) |
| Searchable database, forums, a reference section, regional music information, news and reviews. |
| Musical America.com (http://musicalamerica.com/) |
| Web version of print magazine, "the business source for the performing arts." Contains both free and fee-based subscription services. |
| Musicals101.com (http://www.musicals101.com/) |
| Maintained by John Kinrick. Histories, bibliographies, chronologies, performance rights information, reviews, photos, biographies, script samples, and a calendar of events in the history of musical theater. |
| Opera-Hater's Guide to Opera (http://www.wrkf.org/opera_hater_1.htm) |
| Introduction to the pleasures and beauties of opera. |
| Orange County Performing Arts Center (http://www.ocpac.org/) |
| Located in Costa Mesa, California (in the southern part of Orange County). It is home to the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Opera Pacific, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Pacific Choral and the William Hall Master Chorale. |
| Red Hot Jazz Archive (http://redhotjazz.com/) |
| Solid resource for anyone interested in the early history of jazz. |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland, Ohio) (http://www.rockhall.com/) |
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| Sheet Music Collections (http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/collections.html) |
| A list of digitized sheet music in music libraries and archives. |
| Music Resources. (http://www2.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html) |
| Presents an online information resource of WWW sites dealing with music, compiled by the Sibelius Academy, located in Finland. Links to sites in categories including music catalogs, church music, composing, computer music and MIDI, early music, music magazines, music and arts education, Finnish music, opera, folk music, rock and pop, instruments, music libraries and archives, music schools and departments, and music theory and research. |
| Singer-Songwriter Directory (http://singer-songwriter.com/) |
| Links to official and fan sites, as well as music publishers, organizations, record companies and recording studios. |
| Ultimate Band List (http://ubl.artistdirect.com/) |
| In addition to finding an exhaustive, searchable directory of singers and groups on the Web, visitors can connect to newsgroups, find out about upcoming chats and browse a guide to Internet radio stations. |
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Visual Arts |
| AMICO: Art Museum Image Collection (http://www.amico.org/) |
| Catalog of over 100,000 images in over 35 museums. Includes rights information, links to publications, reproduction request forms, etc. |
| Art Atlas: Art Galleries of the World (http://artatlas.com/) |
| Addresses and phone numbers of of 5,000 international art galleries. |
| Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet (http://artcyclopedia.com/) |
| Good jumping-off point to find which Websites have digital images of the works of specific artists. |
| Art history resources on the web (http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html) |
| Presents a collection of prehistoric, ancient, and Middle Ages art history resources, compiled by Chris Witcombe. Contains information about prehistoric art and art from the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Includes Minoan Crete and Mycenae, Etruscan, Early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic, Early Medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic art. Provides information about early manuscripts. Links to other Web sites related to art in different time periods. |
| ARTISTE: Image Retrieval System Puts European Galleries in the Picture (http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/artiste/) |
| Seeks to cross link, integrate and increase the searchability of the holdings of London's National Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, the Louvre in Paris and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. |
| ArtLex: On-line Art Dictionary (http://www.artlex.com/) |
| More than 3200 alphabetically arranged entries, with some 50 popular terms with their own link from the Homepage frame. |
| AskART.com: "The Artists' Bluebook" (http://askart.com/) |
| 25,000 North American artists in a searchable resource. Includes digital images of their works. |
| California Museum of Photography (http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/photo/webworks.html) |
| Online exhibitions, surveys of masters such as Muybridge, searchable database of 1761 rare images of Ansel Adams. Located at the University of California, Riverside. |
| Digital Archive of Art (http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/) |
| Collection of images of paintings, sculpture, and architecture from the ancient Greek period to the 20th century. From the Fine Arts Dept. at Boston College. |
| Getty Center (http://www.getty.edu/) |
| 110-acre campus in the Santa Monica Mountains, funded by the Getty Trust. It consists of the J. Paul Getty Museum, five institutes (research, conservation, information, education, and leadership) and a grant center. |
| Internet Art Resources (http://artresources.com/) |
| Vast online guide for artists and art aficionados alike, including StudioVisit, where you can learn about contemporary artists and their work. |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art (http://www.lacma.org/) |
| The largest museum west of the Mississippi. Upcoming exhibits and events, interviews with artists, and archived information from past exhibits. |
| Mark Harden's Artchive (http://www.artchive.com/) |
| Art images, text, and articles. 2,300 scans of works by more than 200 artists. |
| Masters of Photography (http://masters-of-photography.com/) |
| Articles, photographs and resource links for several photography greats. |
| Museo Picasso Virtual (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/) |
| Works shown in Halls arranged chronologically. Briefly annotated chronology of Picasso's life and works, an enormous bibliography. Maintained by Enrique Mallen at Texas AM University. |
| Museum of Modern Art (New York) (http://www.moma.org/) |
| Information about exhibits and programs. Also photos from the museum's many collections. |
| Museum of Web Art (http://www.mowa.org/home.html) |
| Museum of Web Art showcases web-exclusive art in a virtual-museum atmosphere, including counters, buttons, wallpaper, and splash pages. Kids Wing and Visitor's Center, too. |
| MuseumLink's Museum of Museums (http://www.museumlink.com/index.htm) |
| A collection of Web sites about museums worldwide includes museums in U.S. states, Canadian museums, European museums, and art museums and sculpture parks. Some of the museums listed are the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the Singapore Art Museum, Claude Monet's House and Gardens in Giverny, France, and the British Museum in London, England. |
| Museums of the World: museum.com (http://www.museum.com/jb/start.html) |
| Exhibit announcements worldwide. Includes addresses, hours, admission charges, and description of the museums. |
| Museumstuff.com (http://www.museumstuff.com/) |
| Search engine, museum links, virtual exhibition. |
| MuseumSpot (http://www.museumspot.com) |
| Classified directory of museum Web sites. |
| National Gallery of Art (http://www.nga.gov/) |
| Renowned museum in Washington, D.C. includes extensive virtual tours and good background essays. |
| Orange County Museum of Art (http://www.ocma.net/) |
| Formed from the combination of the Newport Art Museum and the Laguna Art Museum. |
| Picture Collection Online (http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/) |
| "Collection of 30,000 digitized, public domain images from books, magazines and newspapers, as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mainly created before 1923." From the New York Public Library. |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum (http://www.nmaa.si.edu/) |
| This museum at the Smithsonian Institution is the largest resource in the world for the study of American art. Authoritative, professionally arranged, and kept reasonably up-to-date. |
| http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/ (http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/) |
| Showcase of the vast collections of the State Museum of Russia, founded by Catherine the Great in 1764 in St. Petersburg. Includes the Digital Collection, a searchable database of high resolution images of museum artifacts. |
| Tate Gallery Online (http://www.tate.org.uk/) |
| Browsing access to the home of the national collection of British art from the 16th century to the present day. |
| w3art (http://w3art.com/) |
| Brings together a variety of Los Angeles-based artists, providing them with a chance to display their work. |
| Web Gallery of Art (http://gallery.euroweb.hu/welcome.html) |
| Over 10,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. |
| WebMuseum (http://www.ibiblio.org/louvre/) |
| A virtual museum of several hundred images. Individual images are large both in byte count and in size. Artists are presented within the context of the movements with which they are associated in encyclopedia-like synopses, with links that define terms or present information about related artists. |
| World wide arts resources (http://wwar.com/default.html) |
| "The largest fine art marketplace for original and contemporary art online. Browse or search through over 81,000 works of art by medium, subject matter, price, and theme." |
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