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Choral Music Library
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
RISM - Repertoire International des Sources Musicales
Sheet Music Archive
Hymnary.org
A comprehensive index of hymns and hymnals
The Juilliard Manuscript Collection
Musical Scores from the University of Illinois Music Library
Sibley Music Library Musical Scores

Sheet Music Collections

Dance Web Resources

Dance Resources

Numeridanse
Provides free, open access to a unique video collection including filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, and short and feature-length films.
Jerome Robbins Dance Division Audio and Moving Image Archive
NYPL Digital Collections—digitized moving image and audio recordings
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today, plus new illustrated essays.
Repertory Archive (American Ballet Theatre
Browsable indexes of years, ballets, choreographers, and composers.

Other Online Music Tools

Music Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Free Internet Resources
My.Hymnary
Effortlessly customize, print, and present songs
The Milman Parry Collection
The largest single repository of South Slavic heroic song in the world.
Folk Songs of Atlantic Canada
The Collections of MacEdward Leach. From 1949 to 1951, folklorist MacEdward Leach recorded almost 700 songs performed by singers from settler folk music traditions on the island of Newfoundland and in Gaelic-speaking areas of Nova Scotia.
The Loeb Music Library at Harvard
Digitale Bibliothek: Das Munchener Digitalisierungszentrum
The Munich Digitization Centre (MDZ) handles the digitization and online publication of the cultural heritage preserved by the Bavarian State Library and by other institutions. It provides one of the largest and fastest growing digital collections in Germany, now comprising 31,102 titles available online. Included in this collection is complete digitized version of the Handel-Gesellschaft edition.
List of Open Access Music Journals
Web sites of Interest to Musicologists (American Musicological Society)

Theatre Web Resources

Theatre Resources

Global Performing Arts Database
GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators. Approximately 4,500 objects are currently available.
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Non-profit scholarly website that provides content related to Shakespeare's plays and poems, Shakespeare's life and times, and Shakespeare in performance. Print PDFs of plays and poems, create annotations, and save MLA citations.
American Vaudeville Archive
Contains over 4,000 items, from various vaudeville collections which are housed at the University of Arizona’s Special Collections.
Theater Historiography
Includes a number of resources and scholarly conversations helpful to research in theater and pedagogy for students and scholars
Masters of the Stage Podcast
These free, downloadable podcast recordings feature master directors and choreographers, along with other industry professionals, discussing the craft and business. New programs are added often.
Folger Shakespeare Library
It offers online access to over 75,000 images from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection
Playbill Vault
Cast, production credits, photos, and other info for Broadway productions (1942-present)

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