Research Guides: Music Research Guide: Musical Theater

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The resources on this page contain databases, websites, and video that can help you with auditions and in your research in Musical Theater. If you need more information about a source, hover over the 'i' icon, and if you need help contact the Music Librarian!

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Audition Materials

Musical Theater Songs MusicalTheatreSongs.com allows users to enter criteria about age, vocal range, character, and type of song to generate a list of songs for musical theatre auditions or performances. From that list, users can link to various sites to buy, trade, rent, or download the sheet music and recordings for each song.
IPA Source IPA Sources is the largest collection of literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions on the web. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.

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eBooks

Cambridge Companions to Music Cambridge Companions to Music provide clear and accessible information on composers, instruments or musical topics, written with the student, the performer and the music lover in mind. Each volume provides a carefully structured series of specially-commissioned essays by leading authorities offering comprehensive coverage and indispensable reference material as well as absorbing reading matter.

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New York Times (nytimes.com) To access the library's NYTimes.com subscription, you'll need to sign up for an account using the link above. Choose Create an Account once you've clicked on the link above. We recommend that you use your Belmont email address just in case you ever have trouble with your password. Once you've created your account, you can access NYTimes.com from anywhere, including via the NYTimes mobile apps! Every year, you'll need to log in to your account via the link above while on campus to keep it active.
Historic New York Times (1851-2019) The New York Times (1851-2019) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Find Source Images

ARTStor A rich digital library that offers collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections.The ARTstor Library's content includes more than one million images covering a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

Streaming Video

Digital Theatre+ Access 1,300+ Theatre, Performance and English resources.
Dance in Video Dance in Video is the definitive video collection for the study of 20th Century concert dance, featuring the most influential performers and companies together with dozens of documentaries, interviews, and dance instruction videos. The collection provides coverage in breadth and depth for modern dance forms, and is relevant to dance history, dance analysis, dance instruction. It includes an overview of 20th Century concert dance, including the forerunners and pioneers of modern dance, covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisation; an invaluable resource as dance is an inherently visual medium. If you have trouble accessing this resource, please use your browser's "private window" function
Opera in Video Opera in Video is a comprehensive collection of operatic performances covering the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. The collection contains 500 hours of video comprising 288 operatic works. If you have trouble accessing this resource, please use your browser's "private window" function
Met Opera on Demand online access to more than 575 full-length Met performances
Naxos Video Library The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos. Use of this resource is limited to five (5) simultaneous users. If you are unable to access it, please try again later.
Swank Streaming Video Streaming access to more than 30 films, representing some of the top choices for Film Studies, including academy award winners and popular general release classics.
Kanopy Works best on Firefox or Chrome. Internet Explorer is no longer supported. provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases on every topic imaginable. More than 15,000 titles are available from off and on-campus via this streaming service.

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