Dance 264: Basic music notation, simple and complex rhythmic patterns, and polyrhythms; analysis of selected international music styles; brief historical survey.
Library Databases for Audio and Video Streaming
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OntheBoards.tv This link opens in a new window On the Boards provides access to a growing catalog of 45 full-length performance films by the world's leading contemporary artists. Featuring dance, theater and multi-disciplinary works.
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Qwest.tv This link opens in a new window Qwest TV is a video streaming service dedicated to Jazz, Soul, Funk & World Music.
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Dance in Video (ASP) This link opens in a new window Dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
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Opera in Video (ASP) This link opens in a new window Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. This release includes 132 videos, equalling 280 hours. You can also access Opera in Video through the Music Online interface.
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Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window Over 200 live full length productions including Digital Theater's own recordings alongside collections such as BBC, Royal Shakespeare Company, Broadway Digital Archive, Royal Opera House, London Symphony Orchestra, Shakespeare's Globe etc And including audio radio-plays from LA Theatre Works. Over 140 in-depth interviews with industry professionals including actors, directors as well as all backstage staff: lighting technicians, fight coordinators, stage managers et al.
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Swank Streaming Video This link opens in a new window Includes feature films, documentaries, and international films.
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Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window The world's leading Performing Arts DVD distributor brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Watch the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists perform on demand!
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Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window The most comprehensive classical music streaming platform. Wide range of standard and specialist repertoire. More than 40,000 composer and artist biographies. A musicology section with articles from scholars, critics, students, industry professionals on their opinions and scholarly approaches on various subjects.
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Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new window Naxos Music Library Jazz offers a wide range of jazz music, from jazz legends to contemporary jazz. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented.
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Naxos Music Library World This link opens in a new window Naxos Music Library World offers a wide range of World music, from legendary historical musical performances to contemporary world music. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented.
For information about how to access the NAXOS APP on your mobile phone go to this link. Once you have the app you only need to login to the library every 6 months to keep your app access active.
Books & Videos
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Ear Training for the Body
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Call Number: ML 3460 .T38 1994ISBN: 0871271923Publication Date: 1994-09-01An approach to music from the dancer's viewpoint. Copies are on course reserve. -
Music Fundamentals for Dance
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Call Number: MT 7 .H74 M87 2013ISBN: 9780736096522Publication Date: 2013-01-23Helps dancers understand the relationships between music and dance. -
Musicality
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Call Number: MD 1753.7 .M87 H42 2011 DVDHighlights all actions that add to the musicality of the Arunas and Katusha dance performance: waltz, tango and quickstep. Can be studied in slow motion. -
Making Music for Modern Dance
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Call Number: ML 3411.5 .M53 T43 2011ISBN: 9780199743209Collaboration in the Formative Years of a New American Art. First-hand accounts by both leading choreographers and their composers. -
Choreographing from Within
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Call Number: MD 1782.5 .G73 C46 2010ISBN: 9780736076197Chapters 5 and 7 are particularly helpful for the dancer who is interested in music. -
Music Theory for Tap Dancers
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Call Number: MD 1794 .F72 M87 2008 DVDThis DVD covers the need-to-know music concepts for dancers. Learn about 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes, triplets, 1/16 notes, straight vs. swinging, bars, phrases, 32 Bar and Blues Choruses. -
Image of the Singing Air
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Call Number: MD 1782.5 .G46 I42 2004ISBN: 0761829997Hands-on approaches to score analysis and questions of form for choreographers.
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Online Resources re Music/Dance
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International Guild of Musicians in Dance Purpose of the organization: To document the history of musicians in dance ; To foster collaborations between dancers and musicians ; To establish standards of excellence for musicians in dance ; To establish training programs for musicians in dance
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Making music for dancers Playing live music for dance performances.
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Feeling Movement: Music and Dance A philosophical framework, amplified by speculation grounded on recent work in cognitive psychology, for characterizing the relation of one kind of dance to one kind of music.