Music: Voice / Opera / Musical Theater

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 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 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 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.

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.