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ART & MUSIC

Oxford Art Online - Password proteced off-campus. Access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online.

Bridgeman Archive -
The world's leading source of fine art, cultural and historical images.

Oxford Music Online -
Password protected off-campus. The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, EPM is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. It is exhaustive, meticulous, authoritative — and incredibly fun to read.

Art History Resources on the Web
- provides a gateway to resources on art history from ancient times to the present day. 

Artcyclopedia - a comprehensive guide to online art information and images that allows you to search by artist's name, title of artwork, or by museum. 

AmericArtes - celebrating the visual, performing and literary arts of Latin America.  

National Geographic World Music - Search world music by artist, genre or region.

Choral Public Domain Library - Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites.  You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.

International Music Score Library Project - A music library to provide music scores free of charge to anyone with internet access.

International World History Project - World History From The Pre-Sumerian Period To The Present. A Collection Of World History Related Essays, Documents, Maps and Music.

The Petrucci Music Library - The Petrucci Music Library's goal is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores, as well as scores from composers (living or otherwise) who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. The Petrucci Music Library also encourages the exchange of musical ideas on the website's discussion pages and forums. 

Museum of Museums Online Art from museum and gallery permanent collections world-wide, plus galleries, exhibitions and shows updated continuously. 

Europeana.Eu - Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration with links to 6 million digital items: Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects; Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers; Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts; Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts, from museums and galleries, archives, libraries, and audio-visual collections.

200 Free Movies - Watch the great classics, indies, Film Noir and more

Free Music Archive - The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.

World Architecture - An extensive database of architectural examples from across the world.  This is a great resource for discovering architectural design and methods based on either function or country

Digital Comic Museum  - Free comics from the Golden Age of the 1930’s to 50’s. 

Free Play Music - Free music and sound effects.