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	"Art Encyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine". http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ A fine art search engine which includes an index of specific artists and links, art museums worldwide, glossary of terms, art movements, and much more. You can get immersed in this site easily. Kingwood College Library: American Cultural History: 20th Century http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html This site tracks the evolution of art and architecture in the U. S. by decades. There art and architecture, fads and fashion, literature, music, people and events. Architecture Adam: The Gateway to Art, Design, Architecture and Media Information on the Internet http://adam.ac.uk This is a searchable catalogue of 2546 Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community. The architecture Archives of the University of Pennsylvania http://www.upenn.edu/gsfa/archives/archives/index.html The Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania preserves the works of more than 400 designers from the 18th century to the present. This site contains lists of the Archives’ holdings and related links. Architecture Resources on the Internet http://www.library.ubc.ca/finearts/ARCHITECTURE.html This is a gateway site to of listings of architecture and art resources. There are electronic journals and indexes. Architecture Resources on the Internet http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/H/hmock/arch/arch3.html Architectural theory, ideas and works are included along with architects, resources and links. Castles on the Web Environmental Design Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/Architecture.html Research guides, resources, and ejournals Top Art ARLIS/NA Guide to the World Wide Web http://www.lib.duke.edu/lilly/arlis/web.html The Art Libraries Society of North America organized the links into groups that include Reference Resources, Architecture, Art, Building Construction, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Urban & Regional Planning. The Artchive http://www.artchive.com Click on Mona Lisa to access an alphabetical list of artists. Select Galleries to find exhibitions of specifics artists and time periods. ArtLex http://www.artlex.com This is an extensive dictionary of visual art, defining more than 3,300 terms with pronunciation, diagrams, images, quotations, and links to other resources. artnet.com http://www.artnet.com This is a site of contemporary art. There are links to the current offerings of galleries, artists, and auction houses around the world. There is an ArtNet magazine. For an introduction to art, see the Grove Dictionary of Art http://www.artnet.com/library. It is arranged into sections: Artists’ Biographies, Materials, and Techniques, Styles and Movements. Art on the Web http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/finart/Artweb,html There are more that 1200 links to art related sites under a number of headings. Online art journals, grants, professional organizations, art programs, art galleries, art therapy, art and computers and more. Art Planet: The Internet Fine Art Directory http://artplanet.com This site has links to more than 11,120 artists and galleries listing over 16,600 works. You can look at art by medium, style, or country. ArtsEdNet http://www/artsednet.getty.edu The Getty Education Institute for the Arts has collected items that support arts education, including lesson plans, curriculum ideas, and Internet gateways. ArtSource http://www/uky.edu/Artsource This site contains a selective list of art resources. There are online journals, electronic exhibitions, image collections, museum information and art and architecture programs and libraries. Top Impressionism The Barnes Foundation http://www.barnesfoundation.org/ Dr. Albert C. Barnes established the Foundation in 1922. The Foundation boasts an impressive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works. Click on the Gallery to see a sampling of Impressionists. Claude Monet: 1840 – 1926 http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/monet_claude.html Claude Monet online. Biographical information and samples of Monet's work. See also: http://www.glyphs.com/art/monet Degas http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Degas/html/indexl.html From the New York’s Metropolitan Museum’s Education Department, this site has material on Degas’ life, times, artistic style, and works and his own extensive collection of paintings. Included are images of paintings owned by Degas of other artists such as Cassatt, Ingres, and Gauguin. The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874 http://www.artchive.com/74nadar.htm This site re-creates the first public showing of Impressionist artwork in Paris on April 15, 1874. Links define Impressionism, explain the exhibit, and gives excerpts of art criticism, or see its original catalog listing. Gardens of the Sunlight http://www.e-impressionism.net/index_en.html This site showcases paintings by nine artists: Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. There is a brief biography. Click on the thumbnail pictures for access to an enlarged view. There is commercial content. Mary Cassatt http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/cassatt/html/index.html Learn about the life, times, and work of this native of Pennsylvania. Look at various paintings of Cassatt to see important aspects of her paintings, including her focus on women and children. National Gallery of Art: Tour: Impressionism http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg86/gg86-main1.html The NGA provides a virtual museum of Impressionism. Click on a painting to access detailed information about the work and an enlargeable image. Audio commentary is available for some of the paintings. Click on the artist’s name to access more of their artwork. For other tours of the works of other famous Impressionists visit the French Painting of the 19^th Century section of the NGA site http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/french19.htm WebMuseum, Paris: Impressionism http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/ The term Impressionniste was first used in 1874 to describe Claude Monet’s landscape Impressions, Soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise). This comprehensive guide to Impressionism offers some of the best information available on the Web. Links to additional information about individual Impressionist artists. For more information on more artists connected with Impressionism, visit the Impressionism (1860-1900) page of the site http://www.ibilio.org/wm/paint/theme/impressionnisme.html Top Drama Playwrights: 20^th Century United States American Drama 6.1: Arthur Miller http://blues.fd1.uc.edu/www/amdrama American Drama, a quarterly journal that surveys the American theatre scene, devoted its autumn 1996 issue entirely to the life and work of Arthur Miller. The Arthur Miller Society: Official Web Site http://metalab.unc.edu/miller One of the most influential American playwrights of all time, Miller was born in New York City in 1915. This site offers a chronology of Miller’s life and work and synopses of all his major plays as well as his fiction and nonfiction writings. David Mamet Info Page http://www.mindspring.com/%7Ejason%Dcharnick/mamet.html Born in Chicago on November 30, 1947, David Mamet was an actor and director before turning his attention to writing plays. There is a brief biography, a handful of quotes and a synopsis of his plays. eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O’Neil Archive http://www/eoneill.com Although O’Neil complained about his nomadic childhood as the son of an actor, he was bitten by the life. This site offers a brief biography of O’Neill, essays and reviews about his work, and texts of selected plays. Top Film Cinema Sites http://www.cinema-sites.com Stop here for links to previews, studios, fan pages trivia, festivals and all things relating to movies and TV. Film schools are included for those interested in making films. CineMedia http://www.afionline.org/Cinemedia/cmframe.html More than 25,000 sites listed with links to magazines, radio, and "new media" as well as to TV and cinema sites. Fans can search for their favorite actor’s or director’s site. Early Motion Pictures: 1897 – 1916 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/ermphome.html This collection at the Library of Congress consists of mainly of documentary films made at the turn of the century to record events such as the 1901 World’s Fair, the inauguration of William McKinley, and the San Francisco earthquake. Music Choral Music ChoralNet: The Internet Center for Choral Music http://www.choralnet.org This site contains current information about choral music. It is available in several languages, and is mainly directed to religious organizations, where most choirs are active. There are a multitude of links to professional groups dedicated to choral music, technical resources, and educational sites. Classical Music Pages: Musical Forms http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/musical_forms.html This page links to articles about different types of musical form from the Groves Concise Dictionary of Music. Forms relating to choral music include the cantata, chorale, Gregorian chant, madrigal and oratorio. The Gregorian chant Home Page http://www.music.princeton.edu/chant_html This type of chant was developed during the medieval times. This is a gateway site provides links to the history of this musical form, medieval music sites, chant performance resources, and other chant sites. Madrigal http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/g_madrigal.html From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music, this site traces the history of the madrigal form two or three part song in the 14^th century Italy to its development to five or six voices in the 16^th century England. Musica http://www.musicanet.org This is database of choral music contains more than 77,000 records. Composer, arranger, publisher, genre, level, language or instrumentation can be used to search. This is an international site available in English, Spanish, French, and German. SPEBSQSA http://www.spebsqsa.org/Tutorials This is the Barbershop Quartet site, an important part of choral singing going back to the 1800’s. The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quarter Singing in America is a national all-male singing organization. There is a tutorial about Barbershop harmony, history and more. Sweet Adelines International http://www.sweetadelineintl.org This is a worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the art form of Barbershop harmony through education and performance. Classical Music Classical Composers Database http://utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=_phome Over 1500 entries. Click on the first letter of the composers name to access brief biographical data, a list of works, and links to other sites. The Classical Music Department of the WWW Virtual Library http://www.gprep.pvt.k12.md.us/classical This is a great source of biographical material on composers and artists, links to orchestras’ home pages, a reference section of Composition, Performance, Theory, Tuning, and Instruments/Vocal. There are on-line musical periodicals, lists of university departments, recording companies and music publishers. Classical Music on the Web http://classicalusa.com This is a gateway site to good Internet music sources. There are links to many organized music headings. There are also links to sites featuring other kinds of music. The Classical Music Pages http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp This web site provides you almost everything about classical music- its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. World Music Ceolas http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on Celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites. This is the traditional music of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, Brittany (in France), Galicia (in Spain) and areas which have come under their influence. EOL http://www.research.umbc.edu/efhm This site is a peer-reviewed multimedia Web journal on the study of world music. Visitors can search for information about ethnic music around the world. International Music Archives http://www.eyeneer.com/World Choices given on this site represent a starting point for exploration of music of a given country or region. Within each section, there is country and regional information, musical styles, related sound samples and photographs. Musical Traditions http://www.mustrad.org.uk Detailed, knowledgeable reviews of the latest folk music releases and information about the artists are found here. Reviews are organized by region. Many obscure and little-known artists and musical styles are included. New Native http://www.wcpworld.com/native/sounds.htm Click on Native to link to a menu of regions of the world. There are links to sites, some with audio files and many with information on that area’s history, culture and new music. World Music Institute http://www.heartheworld.org This is a not-for-profit group dedicated to the research, documentation, and presentation of traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the world. Contemporary music ARChive of Contemporary Music http://www.arcmusic.org/begin.html Find out about Carribbean Christmas music, Colombian hot dogs, the history dance crazes, and space-age caveman album covers from the 1960's. Click on the symbols on the left for the various sections such as today in music history or Sound on Film for a time line going back to 1880 and Edison. Contemporary Music http://bubl.ac.uk/link/C/contemporarymusic.htm From the Strathclyde University in Glasgow, comes an immense database of information using the Dewey Decimal Classification system as the primary organization structure. In this section there are 12 major categories of music. Click on anyone of the categories to links in that area. Top


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