LibGuides: Vocal Performance & Opera Guide: Find Books & Films

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Books about vocal music and opera are located in the stacks under M1495-2199 & ML1400-3275. For details about specific call numbers (sub-classified by period, criticism, collections, individual authors, etc.) see the document below.

Library of Congress Classification for Vocal Music & Opera

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Opera Films & Videos

List below is a small sampling of the many opera films in the library's collection.

Carmen
Call Number: DVD M1500.B59 C37 1999
L'Orfeo: favola in musica
Call Number: DVD M1500 .M66 L67 2009
ISBN: 9780769708430
Lucia di Lammermoor
Call Number: DVD M1500.D66 L83 2002
Manon Lescaut: dramma lirco in quattro atti dall'ononimo romanzo di A.F. Prevost
Call Number: B AUBE ML M22 CD
Manon: opéra comique en 5 actes et 6 tableaux
Call Number: DVD M1500.M37 M36 2005 Disc 1-2
Maria Stuarda
Call Number: B DON MAR G 32 CD
Marriage of Figaro
Call Number: DVD M1500.M69 N69 2003
Peter Grimes
Call Number: DVD M1500.B75 P48 2003
ISBN: 0769722555
The operas of Mozart
Call Number: DVD MUSIC GRE MOZ V.1-6
Der Rosenkavalier
Call Number: DVD M1500.S77 R67 1997

Books about Opera and Vocal Music

A brief list of books about opera located in the library. To find further resources, try searching the library's catalog.

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Opera : A History in Documents by Piero Weiss
Call Number: ML1700.O644 2002
ISBN: 0195116380
American Opera by Elise K. Kirk
Call Number: ML1711 .K56 2001
ISBN: 0252073029
The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology - Volumes 1-4 by Richard Walters
Call Number: M1507 .S65 2000 V.1-4 (Oversized stacks)
ISBN: 0881885487
"A collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores."
Opera : A Research and Information Guide by Guy A. Marco
Call Number: ML128 .O4 M28 2001
ISBN: 0815335164

Electronic Books

Warner has access to print books AND electronic books! The following links take you to electronic books about opera.

Mozart's COSI FAN TUTTE : Opera Classics Library Series by Burton D. Fisher
Call Number: eBrary
ISBN: 1930841736
Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes
Call Number: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
ISBN: 0300061013
Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement by Simon Alexander Morrison
Call Number: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
ISBN: 0520229436

E-Books

Warner has access to a number of electronic book databases! The following links take you to them where you can search on a topic of your choice.

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Atla Historical Monographs Collection: Series 1 is an archive of religious and theological literature from the late 13th century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions. The collection covers diverse religious topics and includes many volumes in Aramaic, Arabic, Greek and Hebrew.
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Atla Historical Monographs Collection: Series 2 is an archive of religious and theological literature from 1894 through 1922. It showcases the changing landscape of religion in America at the turn of the century, including the growing interest in non-Western religions.
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This database contains thousands of book chapters in PDF—along with centuries of classic and historical works—published by APA and other distinguished publishers.
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
Hosted within Oxford Academic, Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) provides access to over 16,000 academic eBooks from Oxford University Press (OUP) on their University Press Scholarship Online platform. Check off the "Purchased" filter on the left of the results screen to see all of the titles Eastern has access to in OSO's catalog.
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Contains full-text articles from a variety of scholarly journal back-issues from over 2,500 titles.
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Hosting thousands of titles, SAGE Knowledge includes an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content - including scholarly monographs, reference works, and handbooks - making this the ultimate social science digital library for students, researchers, and faculty.

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Vocal Performance & Opera Guide: Find Books & Films

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