Music: General

The PAE provides information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. Users can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on topics and collections; articles and biographical essays; finding aids to collections; databases for performing arts resources; information on concerts at the Library; and a special Performing Arts Resource Guide which contains entries for hundreds of Library collections, Web sites, databases and exhibits.

Contains 2 million words, over 4000 individual entries and more than 300 authors from over 30 countries writing on hymns of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, from the earliest years to those written today. It includes articles on individual hymns, authors from many countries, hymnals, organisations, and themes, as well as information on hymn tunes and their composers. The work covers a multitude of hymn traditions from all the world’s continents, regions, and denominations, it is ecumenical and international.

Over 10,000 A-Z entries. Includes 2 appendices - one listing French, German, and Italian musical terms with English translations, and an abbreviations list for letters commonly used in musical scores and musical writing.

A-Z entries on people and organizations related to music.

Over 8,000 A-Z entries on musical instruments. Includes instruments from around the world, their builders, history and techniques of instrument design/manufacture, performance practice. Also gives special attention to electronic and experimental instruments and the human body as an instrument.

A-Z entries focus on loving composers and their music. Includes articles that range from definitions of musical ideas/terms to surveys of musical forms and styles. Places music in its social and cultural context. Covers current research including areas such as analysis, theory, ethnomusicology,and performance in all varieties of musical forms including jazz, popular music, dance.

Over 9,000 A-Z entries, which includes areas such as popular music, cities/regions, musical theater, music technology, and musical traditions of numerous ethnic/cultural groups. Articles range from definitions to mid-length biographies, & larger subjects such as the history of jazz, musical instruments, and the American history of the orchestra. Also includes over 400 images and 140 musical examples.

Over 2,000 A-Z entries on musicals, performers, composers, lyricists, producers, choreographers, etc. Includes cross-references, a list of recordings, and a chronology of all the musicals listed. Also, contains a complete index of Tony Award and Academy Award winners.

Over 30,000 A-Z entries covering all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 - present. Includes jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.

Over 5,000 A-Z entries depict the story of Indian music through 2,000 years of history. Entries cover forms of music from classical to film-originated, as well as dance styles, technical terms, instruments, and biographies of vocalists, musicologists, saints, poets, gurus, composers, and instrumentalists. Includes music of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

A-Z entries are a collection of synopses and descriptions of over 250 operas.

Over 2,500 A-Z entries on operatic characters, with information on the creator of the role and notable performances.

More than 1500 A-Z biographical entries of opera singers.

A-Z entries feature 815 articles by distinguished scholars about major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts—from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture.

148 A-Z entries that cover the cultural history of biblical texts, themes, characters, images, and the Bible itself in the literary, visual, and musical arts. Entries are organized primarily according to specific literary, visual, and musical artists, types of works, and periods (e.g., Bach, Johann Sebastian; Shakespeare, William; Children’s Bibles and Literature; Christian Visual Art, Early), revealing how the Bible figures in each.