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Performing Arts Library

Welcome to PAL

If you would like to schedule a time to chat with PAL Librarians or Staff to discuss your research for a class, or to work to find a play or musical work, please email us at palref@roosevelt.edu. You can also come to the Performing Arts Library at any time to chat with us.

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Eastman Case Studies This link opens in a new window
**THIS RESOURCE IS ON CAMPUS ONLY**
IPA Source (International Phonetic Alphabet) This link opens in a new window
Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 4930 texts including 810 aria texts.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides students with exposure to peer reviewed scholarly research with a reference resource of over 1,500 academic journals and other content.
New Play Exchange This link opens in a new window
The New Play Exchange®, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. Designed and built with the needs of the entire new play sector in mind, the mission of the New Play Exchange® is to provide an open, egalitarian platform on which writers all over the world can share their work and others can discover that work.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Access to articles, biographies, bibliographies, 20th century composers and performers, world music, jazz, opera, rock, popular music, instruments and their history.
Limited concurrent user access. Be sure to log off when finished your searching so that other authorized users can access it. If unable to connect, please try again at a later time.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

BabelScores
Requires VPN for access.

BabelScores is the world’s new showcase for contemporary music and a powerful tool for present-day composers to promote their work and to receive a fair benefit for it.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Listen over the web to the complete recordings found in the Naxos catalog. The catalog includes all recordings by Marco Polo, Dacapo, and First Edition. Naxos is the leader in the classical recording industry.
Drama Online This link opens in a new window
This award-winning digital library has been created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. It is the only resource to combine exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays.
Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
The world’s leading classical music channel, medici.tv’s on-demand streaming platform boasts the largest online catalog of over 1,800 videos including concerts, ballets, operas, documentaries, master classes, behind-the-scenes footage and artist interviews. Each year, a selection of exclusive events are broadcast live from the world’s most prestigious concert halls, opera houses, festivals, and competitions, then available afterwards on replay.
Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new window
Streaming video content covering many subject disciplines, such as American History, Environmental Studies, Black Studies, Current Affairs, Counseling & Therapy, Opera, New World Cinema (Independent Features & Shorts), and Theatre. Click the 'Collections" tab to discover videos for which the library provides access.
Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Streaming Broadway productions, interviews, and study guides.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more.

Met Opera On Demand
Enjoy instant access to more than 700 full-length Met performances with the Met's online streaming database for university libraries.

CARLI Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Digital representations of myriad special collections from colleges and universities in the state of Illinois including printed and manuscript materials, images, and sound recordings. Includes collections in education, history, sociology, African American studies, religion, performing arts, and more.

IMSLP
The ultimate goal of the IMSLP is to gather all public domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge. However, another main goal of IMSLP is to facilitate the exchange of musical ideas outside of compositions: for example, the analysis of a particular piece of music.
NYPL Digital Theatre Collections
Digital images covering theatre from photos to ephemera and video
Performing Arts Library of Congress Digital Collections
Among collections are the Aaron Copland Collection, Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, the Ernest Bloch Collection.

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Auditions in Chicago
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Blank Sheet Music
PDF blank sheet music files in almost any kind of staff you'd need!
RU Disability Services
Disability Services (DS) is a branch of the Learning Commons (LC). Our team is committed to providing students with disabilities with the necessary services to support their participation in the rich and varied life of Roosevelt University.