Clark State Library: Appreciation of the Arts (ART 1300): Appreciation of the Arts 1300

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Clark State Library Catalog
Check your own library record
OhioLINK Catalog
Offers access to the collections of the 88 college and university libraries in Ohio, plus the State Library and Cleveland Clinic

Reference Tools

The following subject encyclopedias are great places to find overviews on art and architecture,

music and dance, or literature and theatre topics!

REF N 31.D5 1996

The Dictionary of Art

34-volume set with 45,000 entries on artists, art movements, major works, and styles from pre-history to the present, covering both eastern and western art

REF ML 100.N48 1989

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

universal in scope, including biographies, terminology, musical styles, countries, instruments

REF ML160.H527 1989

Heritage of Music

another multi-volume set, arranged by era

REF PR 85.B688

British Writers

Organized by time period, offering biographical information

REF PS 21.E537 2004

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

Multi-volume work covering authors, works, and topics

Great Web Sites!

Mother of All Art and Art History Sites
This site has links to images, plus research resources, organized by geographic location and by topic.
Smithsonian Museum
The Smithsonian has over 8.45 million catalog records of museum objects, and library & archives materials. More than 936,000 of these records contain online images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other online resources.
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
Through OCLC, you have access to images from museums, cleared for educational use prehistoric to contemporary.
Artcylopedia
The site allows browsing artists by name, media, subject, nationality, or gender. An additional search box links to works of art.

Library of Congress Sources

LC's Music Treasures Consortium
The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship.

Researchers can search or browse materials, access metadata about each item, and view digital images of the treasure via each custodial archive's Web site. The consortial collection will grow as members add more materials.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) is a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress. 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.
National Jukebox

Access the Library of Congress's large collection of historical, out-of-copyright recordings online. Includes the 1919 Victrola Book of the Opera.

Timeline Sources

Digital History Timelines
The Web site gives specific eras, but also allows you to select specific years.
The Artists
This timeline covers years from 1880 to present. The Web site also includes terms and movements in art; you can click on them in the timeline or search from the main site.
Heilbrunn Timelines from the Met
The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline offers a broader social context, as well as information on art and artists.

Library Of Congress Call Numbers for Art

Prefer to browse the shelves? Take a look in these sections:

N | Fine Arts

N | Visual arts

NA | Architecture

NB | Sculpture

NC | Drawing, Design, Illustration

ND | Painting

NE | Print media

NK | Decorative arts

NX | Arts in general

TR | Photography

Note: Not all books of photographs will be in the TR section. For example, a book of photographs of roses might be cataloged under Roses rather than Photography.

Z Typography

Sources for Listening to Music

Spotify
Access millions of streaming audio tracks. Includes both free (with ads) and paid options.
iTunes
Purchase and download tracks and albums from iTunes' extensive store.
Arkivmusic
A classical music-focused online web store. Contains mp3 and CD resources.
Medici.tv
Offers free live broadcasting of concerts, operas and ballets along with video on demand from their catalogue of concerts and classical music documentaries.
Arts and Humanities Research Centre
Get detailed information on many early recordings and listen online to a selection of early 78s.
British Library Sounds
While many of the commercial recordings on this site are inaccessible because still under copyright in the US, it contains oral history and other historical and environmental sound documents for online listening.
Belfer Cylinders at Syracuse University
Search and listen to over 1,400 digitized audio cylinders from the Syracuse University Digital Library Collections.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Search and listen to over 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the UC Santa Barbara Davidson Library.
Musical Sales
Has a biographical section, with files of their music: but limited to 20th, 21st century composers.