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- Music: an art form consisting of sound and silence.
(Wikipedia)
- Performing Arts: forms of art using the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium.
(Wikipedia)

Art, Architecture, Music and Performing Arts - Resource Page

Prime Sites

  • California University (US), Internet Resources in Music - Associations, Libraries and Archives, Composers, Musicology and History, Computer, Theory, Copyright, Selected Sites, Directories, Performers, Ensembles, Festivals, Calendars, Resources, Popular, Jazz, Folk, Traditional, Non-Western, Resarch Centers and Institutes, Indexes and Databases, Sheet, Instruments, Journals, Vocal Music/Opera

  • Interactive Learning Paradigms (US), ArtSource - gathering point for networked resources on art & architecture: architecture resources, art & architecture programs & libraries, art journals online, artist's projects, electronic exhibitions, events, general resources, image collections, museum info, new media, organizations, vendor info, virtual ceramics exhibit

  • Library of Congress (US), Performing Arts Reading Room - Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance: libraries & research aids, periodical indexes, doctoral dissertations, obituaries & necrologies, dance, theater, opera, music (film, church, organizations, publishers, copyright, sheet), song lyrics

Other Sites

Lawyers and Film

West Virginia University (US)

What can we learn about ourselves as lawyers from watching lawyer films?, elements of the films—story, drama, plot, character portrayal worth pursuing, mythology of lawyering, ideals associated with a life in law, critical perspectives on law, lawyers, and the legal profession, reading the films

Classical Music: a history according to YouTube

Limelight Magazine (AU)

educational and eclectic tour of music from the middle ages to today illustrated with clips from YouTube: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical era, Romantics, Birth of Modernism, Post-WWII innovators
 

Survey of American Popular Music

Sam Houston State University (US)

evolution of native styles, roots of rock music, classic rock 'n' roll era, brill building era, british invasion, amerian renaissance, regional styles, hybrid children of rock, punk/new wave/postpunk, other notable genres and topics

Media/performing Arts

Warrinton Collegiate Institute (UK)

ideology, bibliography, notes (high art & popular culture, proxemics, hip hop, post modernism, what makes a good musical, Show Boat, Oklahoma, West Side Story, dance forms, Hair, A Chorus line, Cats), present state of The Musical.

Classical Hollywood Cinema

Columbia University (US), Fathom

most popular narrative tendencies and film genres that developed during Golden Age of Hollywood cinema from (Marx Brothers, Fred Astaire, Westerns and musicals, melodramas, Singin' in the Rain, Frankenstein), rise of the major classical Hollywood studios, key characteristics of seamless storytelling

Listening to Music

Yale University (US), Open Yale courses

ways in which music is put together, how to listen to a wide variety of musical styles from Bach and Mozart to Gregorian chant to the blues

Early Music

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

history of Western music from antiquity until approximately 1680: chant structure performance and development, 14th century music of Italy and France, Elizabethan London, Venice in the Baroque era, tools used in studying music history

Understanding Basic Music Theory

Open University (UK), OpenLearn

review of common notation and an introduction to the physics behind music theory, basic concepts of music theory and a few slightly advanced but very useful topics such as transposition

Free Online Courses

BBC Training and Development (UK)

Television (DV Camera Shooting Guides, Lighting Safety, Usage Guides, Good Shooting Guide: the basic principles,Introduction to Video Production, Post Production, Pre-production, Rigorous Recces,Television Glossary), Radio (News Styleguide, Cool Edit Pro (Basics, Editing Process, Multitrack Packaging, Mix Down and Housekeeping), Interviewing for radio, Microphones and sound for radio, Minidisc for Radio), Broadcast Technology (DV Camera Shooting Guides, Journalism,News Styleguide, Good Shooting Guide, Health & Safety (DV Lighting Safety), Broadcast Management (Giving and Receiving Feedback)

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