We are delighted to present a guest blog from our most recent work experience student to the University Library, Tara Bell. Here’s how she found Library life, in her own words. During the summer, I planned a week of work…
Tag: music
Music online: musical technology and samples at your fingertips
Do you do music? If so, you should check out Music Online for audio examples of music from all over the World, as well as encyclopedic information relating to places, cultural groups, instruments, including the voice and electronic, and genre,…
Copyright killed the YouTube star
You would imagine that if you record yourself playing music that is long out of copyright, J S Bach for example, on the piano in your bedroom, and post it to your YouTube channel, that no-one is going to accuse…
New look for Oxford Art and Music Online
Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online both now have a new look. Oxford Art Online includes the peer-reviewed, regularly updated Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists with over 200,000 articles that span ancient to contemporary art…
Digital Theatre Plus
Digital Theatre Plus is a useful resource for teachers and students of Performing Arts or English Literature. It can also be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys dramatic or musical performance. It is mostly a video-based teaching resource for schools and…
Posted in Reviews, Subjects: Creative Arts, Subjects: Humanities Tagged with: databases, films, literature, music, theatre, videos
Rediscovering the “Pompey Messiah”
It was certainly one of those WOW moments: when he found something wonderful he wasn’t really expecting. “I was in Portsmouth Central Library”, principal lecturer Dr. George Burrows tells me, “trying to find something historic about music and Portsmouth I…
Entertainment Industry Data
For those of you who enjoy watching films or listening to music you might be interested to know there is a database (owned by the Academic Rights Press) available through the University Library that holds film and music data from the…
Digital Theatre Plus
Digital Theatre Plus is a video-based resource comprising recordings of live theatre and opera productions, classical music concerts and ballets from renowned production houses as well as a growing collection of interviews with individuals such as actors, theatre managers and production teams.…
Digital Theatre Plus is available online
Following a successful trial earlier this year we are now subscribing to Digital Theatre Plus which is a database primarily for students and staff of our Performing Arts and Film courses. However I know many other members of staff who…
Creative Arts Book of the Week 14/03/16
Gilbert and Sullivan: gender, genre, parody by Carolyn Williams A couple of weeks ago I saw UPDMS perform Ruddygore (or The Witch’s Curse) at the Theatre Royal in Portsmouth. It was a trip down memory lane for me. Thirty years…
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