Arts
Welcome to the subject guide for arts! Here you will find databases, journals, links and other information that you may find useful when searching for material in a specific subject area.
Library Search Tool
- Library Search Tool
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In the Library Search Tool you can search for books, e-books, dissertations and articles in all subject areas.
Articles and databases
Interdisciplinary databases
- ERIC (LTU)
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Materials related to education. Includes, among other things, scientific articles. - Web of Science (LTU)
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Covers several subject areas, including arts and humanities. - Scopus (LTU)
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Provides access to several databases and covers almost 10,000 leading journals in areas such as the arts and humanities. - JSTOR (LTU)
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Books and scientific articles in fields such as music and sound engineering. - UR Access (LTU)
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Movies, radio and TV programs from the Education Radio (UR).
Media databases
- Retriever Mediearkivet (LTU)
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The archive contains 450 Swedish printed newspapers, magazines and trade press, as well as annual reports. Here you will find Swedish and foreign articles from ten years ago. - The Swedish Media Database, SMDB
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Search service for the audiovisual collections at the National Library of Sweden. Contains information about TV, radio, video, movies presented in theaters, CD:s, and multimedia.
Music databases
- Bibliography of Swedish Music Literature
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A subdatabase in Libris. Contains references to monographs and collections, articles in Swedish music journals, and more. - Boulanger Initiative Database
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Women and Gender-Marginalized Composers Repertoire Database, freely available. - IMSLP – Petrucci Music Library
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The world's biggest freely accessible music score library online. - IPA Source: IPA Transcriptions and Literal Translations of Songs and Arias (LTU)
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A collection of International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song lyrics. - National Jukebox
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Library of Congress collection of historical sound recordings. - Naxos Music Library (LTU)
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Browse among 125,000 albums and 1,8 million tracks available for streaming. - Oxford Grove Music Online (LTU)
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Music encyclopedia covering music, musicians, music creation, and musicology. Linking to Grove Music Online. - RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (LTU)
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Reference database for music from all over the world. - Swedish Musical Heritage
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Swedish music score that can be downloaded free of charge. - The Royal College of Music's song register
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A register of Swedish songs.
Databases in audio technology
- AES E-Library (LTU)
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Material in audio technology. - ACM Digital Library (LTU)
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Contains material in digital art and music, games, multimedia and virtual environments. - EMS music archive
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EMS music archive.
Databases in theater and dance
- DramaDirekt
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In DramaDirect's catalog you will find both Swedish and international drama. You can search by author, play title or by using keywords (in Swedish). - The scene database
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Here you can, among other things, search for information about theater productions, actors and producers.
Journals in arts
- DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals
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Open-Access journals and articles within your subject area. - Journals
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Search among the University Library's journals within your subject area.
Links within media
- Freedom of the Press Act
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Read the Freedom of the Press Act in its entirety (in Swedish). - Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression
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Read the Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression in its entirety (in Swedish). - Institute for Media Studies
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Studies and reviews media (in Swedish). - Legal Handbook
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Manual with information including how to use digital material online (in Swedish). - Mediehistoriskt arkiv
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Publishes researchers from all over Sweden in the form of anthologies, monographs, dissertations and source collections (in Swedish). - NORDICOM
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Nordicom works to create contacts among Nordic researchers and between academia and society in Sweden and the Nordics. - Openness and Secrecy Act
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The Openness and Secrecy Act in its entirety (in Swedish). - Openness principle
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Brief information on the principle of openness and how it is expressed (in Swedish). - Publicistklubben
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Works according to the mission of safeguarding freedom of the press and freedom of expression and promoting debate (in Swedish). - Swedish Agency for the Media
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Swedish Agency for the Media works to promote freedom of expression and diversity in the media market, where multiple voices are heard and consumers have access to a wide and accessible range of radio, television and news media. - Swedish Arts Council
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Swedish Arts Council, Kulturrådet, is a government authority with the task of promoting cultural life both in Sweden and abroad. - Swedish Media Publishers' Association
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The Swedish Media Publishers’ Association, Svenska Tidningsutgivareföreningen, TU, is the trade association for Sweden’s newspapers and other media companies. - The authorities' writing rules
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The Language Council's collection of writing rules (in Swedish).
Links within music
Singing
- Choral Public Domain Library – Sheet Music
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Over 12,000 freely available sheet music for choir. - EUscreen
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Contains thousands of archived audiovisual items. - Musica International
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A Virtual Choral Library. - OperaGlass Libretti
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Librettos and other texts from Stanford's database. - Song And Tune Catalogue
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This is a web-based version of Visarkivets Vis- och låtregister. In this database, you can find almost 200,000 occurences of songs and tunes from printed publications. - The Aria Database
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Contains information about and translations of arias.
Guitar
- Boijes Samling
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Nearly 1000 guitar works in print and manuscript from the 19th century. - Heartwood Guitar Instructor
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Chords, tablature and rhythms for guitar. - Munich Digitization Center
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Freely available sheet music and manuscripts.
Orchestra
- The Roman Collection
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Works by the father of Swedish music Johan Helmich Roman (in Swedish).
Other
- BlankSheetMusic.net
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Templates for music and tablature sheets. - Early Music Online
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Early Music Online is the result of a pilot project in which more than 300 volumes of 16th century music from the British Library were digitized from microfilm. - Nordic Network for Music Education Research
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Network for Nordic institutions conducting music education research and postgraduate education. - RISM
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Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, RISM, is an international, non-profit organization that aims to comprehensively document existing musical sources from around the world. - ScorSer – Search system for musicians
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Contains sheet music, tablatures, lyrics, backing tracks and audio files. - Swedish Journal of Music Research
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A peer-reviewed journal published by the Swedish Society of Music Research. - Women Composers Collection
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University of Michigan Library's collection of music composed by 700 women composers.
Links within audio engineering
- DAFX paper archive
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Georgia Tech Librarys collection of proceedings. - International Conference on Auditory Display, ICAD
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ICAD, a repository that provides and preserves digital material, for example in audio technology. - NIME
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NIME – New Interfaces for Musical Expression is an archive of various conference papers. - Record Production
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Recording engineer's tips and tricks. - The Journal on the Art of Record Production, JARP
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International peer reviewed journal that publishes scientific articles.
Links within theater and dance
- An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490 to 1920
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Library of Congress collection of over two hundred dance manuals. - Dans i Nord
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Norrbotten County's resource and development center for dance (in Swedish). - Dansportalen
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Mixed articles and other information about dance (in Swedish). - Dramawebben
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Dramawebben is part of the Literature Bank where you can find free Swedish drama (in Swedish). - Musikverkets teatersamlingar
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Here are public and private archives and collections with play scripts, program sheets, role photos, books, journals and much more (in Swedish). - The Paget-Fredericks Dance Collection
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Contains approximately 2,000 original drawings, paintings, photographs and more, between approximately 1913–1945.
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