ProQuest One Performing Arts offers dynamic, multi-media content that connects foundational works — such as scripts, performances, and scores — with secondary materials including journal articles, publications, and reference resources. Integrating diverse content from classical music scores to dance videos, historical performance recordings, theatrical productions, and drama texts, enables deeper exploration of technical artistry, historical context, and cultural significance across different time periods.
Content types include:
The content has been organized to allow users to find information faster and explore topics more deeply.
Main Features
The Music & Performing Arts Collection provides a cost-effective and efficient way for libraries to gain access to specialist databases for scholars and students researching music and the performing arts. The collection features scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, newspapers, and reference works, covering a wide range of disciplines including dance, ballet, circus performance, popular music, puppetry, radio, stagecraft, theatre, classical music, and opera. The collection consists of two distinct databases:
The Music & Performing Arts Collection resides in the ProQuest platform.
Dance Online is a rich subscription solution tailored for the dance community. It offers a collection of multimedia resources — ranging from primary to secondary — that cater to scholars, educators, students, and enthusiasts alike. Featuring video performances, instructional materials, interviews, books, periodicals, and extensive archival materials across dance genres, these materials support focused explorations into dance history, technique, and cultural context.
Dance Online is a resource for dance scholarship that combines academic study with video performance and instruction. From research and theory to movement and technique, this collection enriches learning and professional growth for dance scholars, performers, and educators.
Dance Online Includes:
Dance Online resides in the Alexander Street Multimedia platform.
The Music Online: Classical Scores Library is a reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of diverse and lesser-known contemporary works. Classical Scores Library’s extensive collection of scores enhanced by powerful educational platform tools supports the teaching and learning of music history, performance, composition, and theory for today’s music scholars.
The Music Online: Classical Scores Library resides in the Alexander Street Multimedia platform.
Music Online: Listening is the most comprehensive and highest quality streaming audio collection to support the teaching and research of music. It currently provides academic libraries with streaming access to over 10 million tracks*, and is growing monthly as new recordings are added.
Music Online: Listening provides coverage in breadth and depth across all the key musical genres:
The collections include the valuable recordings needed to support effective teaching and research, such as:
Music Online: Listening resides in the Alexander Street Multimedia platform.
A foundational collection of dramatic texts for any institution wanting to teach the basics of drama. With 13,500 plays it is the largest assembly of essential texts for Theatre students and teachers alike.
The collection spans nearly a millennium of dramatic writing covering the historical canon of Western theatre from its earliest days right up to the key figures of the early 21st century. It provides the most studied and performed plays of canonical playwrights as well as their less well-known contemporaries, allowing for a comprehensive survey.
Drama Texts Collection resides in the Alexander Street Multimedia platform.
Theatre Performance and Design Collection is the first comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater from production and design to performance, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more. Theatre students and researchers can now truly see “behind the scenes” of the world’s greatest dramatic performances.
Theatre Performance and Design Collection brings together Alexander Street’s premiere collections of video performances, audio dramas, and designs. Combining the most important video content types used in theatre education (filmed stage performances, masterclasses, documentaries) with top-of-the-line teaching tools (playlists, video clips, on-screen transcripts), and production designs, there really is no better way for faculty to bring the brilliance of stage right into their classrooms.