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Books, Audiovisual Material and Journals

To find books, audiovisual material and journals in the LRC, search the catalogue using a keyword search on your topic.  Ask for assistance at the Information Desk.

Important call numbers for this subject area are:
 

Subject

DDC

Traditional Music

781.6

Sculpture

730-735

Drawing- Decorative Arts

740

Symphony-

 Vocal Music-

Key board

784.2

782.1 - 782.4

784.6

Painting and paintings

750

Comomposition-

Theory

781.3

780.1

Techniques of music

781.44

Techniques of fine and decorative arts

702.8

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 Reference Sources of LRC

100 Vietnamese painters and sculptors of the 20th century
                                                                             
   TK 759.959706 ONE
 

Art across time                                                        TK 709 ADA
 

Contemporary Artists                                              TK 709.22 CON
 

Gilbert's living with art.                                           TK 790 GIL
 

Hội họa toàn thư                                                       TK 740.03 PHA
 

International directory of art                                  TK 790.3 INT
 

Music since 1900                                                      TK 780.904 SLO
 

Popular music                                                           TK 781.63 POP
 

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Art                                  TK 730 LAN
 

Tác giả tác phẩm mỹ thuật Việt Nam                       TK 709.597 TAC
 

Who’s who in Art                                                       TK 700.9 WHO

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Online References

Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online

The AAT is a structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other information about concepts. Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials.
 

Artcyclopedia.com                                          

1200 arts sites indexed and more than 32,000 links to an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists are offered.
 

Artlex - Visual Arts Dictionary                      

Over 3,300 terms are defined, with links to illustrations and related Web sites. Artist's names and titles of individual works are included in the definitions.
 

Encyclopedia4u.com                                      

This encyclopedia covers many fields including fine arts.
 

Glossary of music term                                 

Besides A-Z glossary of music term there are also A-Z of Opera, which includes index of works by composer, and many useful links to directories or websites relating to the subject area.

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Internet Resources

Music

8notes.com
                                                   
An extensive collection of free, downloadable sheet music and lessons. Categorized by instrument and musical styles (popular, classical, film, christmas, etc.). Also includes short pieces and riffs.
 

Allmusic                                                         

Can search for various information about artists, albums, songs, and styles.
 

Vietnamese traditional music            

Providing lots of information about Vietnamese music, including traditional musical instruments
 

The Living Composers Project
           
"The Living Composers Project is a non-profit database begun in 2000, which aims to provide composers, listeners, performers, and researchers with a source of information about the music of our time."
 

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page      

This archive includes a variety of G&S related items, including clip art, librettos, plot summaries, pictures of the original G&S stars, song scores, midi and mpeg audio files, and newsletter articles. New items are being added regularly.
 

The J.S. Bach Homepage                                
A large informational site about the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach
; Contains biographies, bibliographies, links, and a database of works indexed by instrument, title, performer/conductor, BWV number, key, year and record label.
 

The Mozart Project                                        

Contains a biography of Mozart (with chronology and family tree), a listing of his compositions (by date and category), selected essays about him and his music, plus reviews of books on Mozart; also includes links to more Mozart resources online. 
 

Classical music page                                     

This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning 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.
 

Composer Biographies

A site of brief biographical sketches of some of the more well-known classical composers. 
 

Fine Arts

ADAM (Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway)

It is a service being developed to help people find useful, quality-assured information on the Internet in the following subject areas: Fine Art, Design, Applied Arts, Media, and Theory.
 

Asia-art                                                          

Asia-art.net promotes Asian art appreciation to the world.  We present you with traditional and modern Asian art that captures the spirit, cultural complexity and charm of Asia.
 

Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists (Vapa)

The main website of Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists.

Lostus gallery                                                

The main website of Lostus Gallery.
 

The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery  

"The site currently contains information about all of Van Gogh's paintings." It has "grown to more than 2,330 pages and 2,345 graphics." Besides viewing the paintings online, you can download databases listing the paintings, Van Gogh stamps, or Van Gogh's Correspondence for free. There's also a biography and chronology of Van Gogh's life.
 

Timeline of Art History                         

The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Timeline will span art history up to the present day by the fall of 2004.
 

ULAN (Union List of Artist Names)

The ULAN Browser is a database of names and associated information (such as dates, variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants) about artists. "Artists" can include individuals or groups of individuals working together and range from painters to ceramicists, and architects to draftsmen. Currently contains some 220,000 names representing about 100,000 individual artists. Part of the Getty Vocabulary Program.

VietnamFinearts                                            

Vietnam-finearts.com is a commercial website but it includes a lot of biographpical information about contemporary Vietnamese artists.
 

Vietnamesefineart.com                                 

The main website of Art Vietnam Gallery, the premier gallery and authoritative source for contemporary art in Vietnam.
 

Web Gallery of Art
 
                                        
"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently containing over 8,000 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available."

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Databases and Electronic Journals

LRC provides multi-disciplined databases and e-journals in English for users whose specialties are natural or social.

Databases  

EBSCO is a group of multi-disciplined databases serving for most users. Many databases in EBSCO are updated on a daily basis. Below are some examples of relevant databases:

Academic Search Premier provides full-text for 4,500 publications covering the disciplines: history, politics, literature, languages, psychology, and sociology etc.

Blackwell Publisher provides articles from 814 leading journals covering the subjects: mathematics, informatics, history, literature, languages, philosophy, and law etc.

Oxford University Press provides a variety of journals of a wide subject coverage serving different groups of users.

Access to most of these databases is open within LRC (Username and Password are not required).  For remote access, contact Information Desk at level 1.

Electronic Journals

Journal of the American Musicological Society: Access is open in LRC. No remote access provided.

Journal of Education & the Arts: Free access

 

For further assistance, please contact your College liaison

Truong Thi Ngoc Tuyet: tuyet.ttn@lrc-hueuni.edu.vn

 

 

 

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