Harvard Public Library: Weblinks

Grove Art Online is a major reference resource for art research. It contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography) from prehistory to the present day. The entries are authored by experts in the discipline and subject area of each article. Over 2,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings are displayed in the text of articles and extensive links (over 40,000) to important art images in galleries and museums around the world are included. A Harvard Public Library or C/WMARS library card number is required to search it.

Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com
Guide to museum-quality art on the Internet. Search hundreds of art museum sites for exhibits and artists. This very detailed art encyclopedia is ideal for an art-related research project.

Art Magick
http://www.artmagick.com
Gallery of art from art movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Timelines of Art History
http://www.art-and-archaelogy.com/timelines/tl001.html
Organized by civilization and period, this educational website dedicated to art history provides selected links about the art and archaeology of ancient civilizations, including Egypt, Greece and Rome, Asia and the Middle East.

William Shakespeare

Absolute Shakespeare
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/
The essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.

Shakespeare High
http://www.shakespearehigh.com/
Your Shakespeare classroom on the Internet. Includes lots of useful information on Shakespeare’s life and work.

Shakespeare Online
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/
Contains useful study information, including a Shakespeare glossary, explanations and analysis, quotations and a timeline of Shakespeare’s life.

Shakespeare Resource Center
http://www.bardweb.net/
Information on Shakespeare’s life and work, along with links to other useful Shakespeare websites.

All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com
A site produced by jazz fans for jazz fans. Provides information and opinion about jazz from the past, present, and future. New to jazz? Checkout their Building a Jazz Library section. Those with more of an established interest will find the extensive archives of reviews and interviews helpful.

All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com
Need to look up an out-of-print recording? Want reviews on a new release? The All Music Guide is the site to start your research. Search by artist, album, song, style, or label. Access information on new releases, music styles, music maps (guides to the evolution of a musical genre), articles, and a glossary. Entries on artists include a musician/musical group's history, roots and influences, musical style, discography, guest performances, and reviews.

Classical Music Page
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html
This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies.

Essentials of Music
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com
Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's a good starting point for beginning research about classical music. Essential of Music provides basic information and overviews of western music history covering Middle Ages, Renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, and the 20th century. Other features include brief biographies of more than 70 composers, a glossary of musical terms, and more than 200 audio excerpts of classical music.

Music History and Biographies
Eric’s Treasure Trove of Music
http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/music/
An amazing site. Contains information on the technical side of music, including musical notes, scales, time signatures, and instruments.

Music Theory Lessons Online
The Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/
A dictionary of composers, mainly of historical interest.

Online Music Dictionary
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/dictionary.htm
Want to know the difference between a heldentenor and a lyric tenor? Use this online music dictionary to find out.

Open Directory Project: Arts: Music
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/
This extensive collection of music websites compiled and organized by category includes sites on bands and artists, instruments, people, regions, and styles of music.

Ricci Adam’s MusicTheory.net
http://www.musictheory.net/
Take one of Ricci Adam’s “lessons” on various aspects of music theory from the most basic principles of music to more complex theory.


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