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Growing collection of high-quality videos of full-length performances by some of today’s most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music, and other forms that defy categorization.
Streaming video of major opera performances, including staged productions, interviews & documentaries. Represents the world's best performers, conductors & opera houses.
Based on Orchestral Music: A Handbook , 4th ed., offers searching by composer, title, keyword, duration, instrumentation, chorus type & soloists. Also includes links from individual works to music publishers and other sources.
Fully searchable abstract database covering ornamental plants, from breeding & propagation to production & transport.
Articles on African American history, literature, and culture from scholarly reference works.
Covers every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present including art movements, media & materials, themes & subjects, specific places & monuments, and 21,000 individual artists with bibliographies and image links.
A scholar-curated library of subject bibliographies in the humanities & social sciences; each entry offers a guided tour through key literature on a topic. Trial ends 11/4/12.
50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the 4th century BC to the year 2001. 2nd edition, with illustrations.
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Traces the development of English froom 1150 AD to the present. Entries include spelling, pronunciation, derivation, meaning, and usage. 2nd ed (1989)+ updates.
Reference content & commentary by renowned scholars, plus Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, maps & timelines. Includes Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World and other core reference works on Islam.
Unabridged bilingual dictionaries for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian & Chinese, with native speaker audio pronunciation.
Full text coverage of Grove and Oxford reference titles in music including classical, jazz, opera, and popular music.
Reference dictionaries and companions, including illustrations, web links, and searching individual titles or by subject area; from Oxford University Press.
Scholarly works in the humanities including hundreds of poems, plays, and prose works, written by writers between 1485 and 1660, including Donne, Marlowe, Shakespeare and more. Trial ends 11/4/12.