Art/Music
Resources
Artcyclopedia - Over 5,000 artists are listed but, most usefully, it guides you to the online collections that house a given work. Art History Resources - Gateway of links covering all periods of art and its history. Created by a professor at Sweet Briar College. Art Source - Gateway website divided by category. A to Z of Musical Instrument - This is a list of musical instruments known around the world. They are gradually adding sound files plus a short history of each instrument. Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature - Sponsored by Indiana University's prestigious school of music, this Website hosts a number of databases useful to students and scholars of music. Classical.net-Composers - This index lists those composers for which there is a dedicated page at this site that may include a biography, recommended works, recommended recordings, and other related reviews and articles. Dictionary of Art Historians - A biographical database of western art historians. A free, scholarly resource for scholars, students, and publics. Continually updated. Getty Research Portal - Access digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature. Google Art Project - Discover artworks, collections and stories from all around the world in detail and close-up. International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) - Petrucci Music Library. Major database containing public domain scores; includes complete works of many composers. J. Paul Getty Elements of Art - The education department supports the J. Paul Getty Museum's mission to encourage the appreciation and understanding of art, and its history, context, and meaning. J. Paul Getty Principles of Design - The education department supports the J. Paul Getty Museum's mission to encourage the appreciation and understanding of art, and its history, context, and meaning. Khan Academy: Art History - Khan Academy offers lessons on the subject of art history including practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Metropolitan Museum of Art - Virtual tours of exhibits, catalogs, and writings from one of the world's best museums of classic and contemporary art. Mississippi Encyclopedia: Art - Biographical information on Mississippi artists Mississippi Encyclopedia: Music - Biographical information on Mississippi musicians. MoMA: Glossary of Art Terms - MoMA Learning is your destination for engaging with modern and contemporary art. It reflects the profound shift toward digital learning since the Museum launched its first curriculum website in 2006. Orchestra: a user's manual - The aim of the user's manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject. Sheet Music Consortium - The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. SmartHistory - Smarthistory’s free, award-winning digital content unlocks the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible and engaging to more people, in more places, than any other publisher. Smithsonian: Art & Artist Files - The Smithsonian Libraries' Art and Artist Files are an exceptionally valuable resource for art historical research done on emerging regional and local artists and often are the only obtainable sources of information on those artists. There are over 150,000 files that contain ephemera. Timeline of Art History - A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world. WWW sites of interest to musicologists - From the American Musicological Society |
Streaming Media
Films on Demand- Art & Architecture Films on Demand- Music & Dance Art21 Free Music Archive - Find historic recordings and work from new composers who are willing to share. Most can be used in your own audio or video assignments and projects. Score Follower - YouTube channel with recording + score videos of modern compositions. Open Educational Resources
Art Appreciation - Lumen Learning A History of Art for Beginners and Students - Project Gutenberg BOUNDLESS ART HISTORY TEXTBOOK - Lumen Learning INTRODUCTION TO ART: DESIGN, CONTEXT, AND MEANING - Univ. of North Georgia Press |