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Corryvrechan Scottish Dance Team at Kilkenny - Castle
Corryvrechan Scottish Dance Team performing at Kilkenny Castle after
Parade of the Nations at Celtic Festival 2007, courtesy of YouTube
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
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Balinese Dance, Drama and Music: A Guide to the Performing
Arts of Bali
by I. Wayan Dibia and Rucina Ballinger; illustrations by Barbara
Anello.
Location 1: Loeb Music Seeger Room GV1703.I53 D54 2004
Location 2: Tozzer TOZ-LC GV170.3.I532 B35 2004x
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Bhavam, Ragam, Talam, Natyam: A Hand-Book of Indian
Dance
edited by P.K. Ravindranath
Location: Widener Harvard Depository
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Dances of Scotland
by Jean C. Milligan and D. G. MacLennan; illustrated by Rowland A.
Beard.
Location: Widener Harvard Depository SG 4645.15
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Folk Dance
by J. Tillman Hall.
Location: Theatre Collection TS 552. 1272.29
HOLLIS Catalog Record
The Folk Dance Library
by Anne Schley Duggan, Jeanette Schlottmann and Abbie
Rutledge
Location: Widener Harvard Depository GV1743 .D8
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Folk
Dances and Games
by Caroline Crawford
Folk-Dances
and Singing Games; Twenty-Six Folk-Dances of Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Russia, Bohemia, Hungary, Italy, England, Scotland and
Ireland
with the music, full directions for performance, and numerous
illustrations;
arranged and edited by E. Burchenal
Folk Dances for All
line drawings by Ben Stein; photos by Gjon Mili.
Location: Theatre Collection TS 552. 15.21
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Folk Dances of Different Nations
arranged by Louis H. Chalif
Location: Theatre Collection Harvard Depository *2005TW-1022F
HOLLIS Catalog Record
The
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 5, South
Asia: The Indian Subcontinent
edited by Alison Arnold
A Handbook of Irish Dances: With an Essay on their Origin and
History
by J. G. O'Keeffe and Art O'Brien.
Location: Widener Harvard Depository SG 4645.13
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Location: Theatre Collection HTC-LC GV1646.I8 O4 1934
HOLLIS Catalog Record
A Handbook of Traditional Scottish Dance
by George S. Emmerson.
Location: Widener Harvard Depository
HOLLIS Catalog Record
International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc
edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen; area editors, George Dorris;
consultants, Thomas F. Kelly.
Location: Widener Library RR 2941.24
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Let's Have a Ceilidh: The Essential Guide to Scottish
Dancing
by Robbie Shepherd; music selected and arranged by Jim
Johnstone
Location: Widener Harvard Depository GV1646.S35 S53 1992
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Old time and Novelty Dances
Location: Theatre Collection Harvard Depository *2005TW-730
HOLLIS Catalog Record
A Pocket Guide of Folk and Square Dances and Singing Games
for the Elementary School
by Richard Kraus.
Location: Theatre Collection TS 552. 1363.29
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Quick-Teach Fun Dances for Recreational Groups: Directed
Dances for Untrained Dancers of All Ages, with Mixers, Musical
Games and Folk Dances Plus an Introduction to Modern Square
Dancing
edited by Jack and Helen Todd; drawings by Helen Todd.
Location: Theatre Collection Harvard Depository *2005TW-720
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Twenty-Four Figures of the Most Fashionable Country Dances:
Together with Eight Cotillions, for the Year Eighteen
Hundred
composed & selected by John H. Ives
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abstracts of dissertations, in over 2000 journals. America
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specific searches.
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interdisciplinary topics). Also indexes each article's cited
reference list, allowing searches for articles that cite a
particular author or work. See the HCL Research Guide, Searching
the Citation Indexes.
International Index to the Performing Arts provides citations to articles in more than a
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articles in over 3,000 journals and series, as well as relevant
monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other
formats, from 1926 to the present. Though MLA does not
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HOLLIS Catalog Record function.
For information prior to 1926, see the MLA in print listed below;
note that prior to 1955, the MLA covered only American works on
world languages and literatures.
MLA American Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern
Languages and Literatures, 1921-1955
Location: Widener Library WID-LC PB 41 .Z99
M62ax
HOLLIS Catalog Record
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Muse, similar to
JSTOR, is an online archive of the full-text of selected scholarly,
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but, typically, for the most recent 3-5 years. Many of these
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HOLLIS
Catalog
There are nearly 4.5 million books in Widener Library's collection,
and they are all listed here, in Harvard University's union catalog
of all the libraries at Harvard. For an introduction to using
the HOLLIS, consult the guide Searching the
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Catalog. Remember that books and materials that you find
in the catalogs below (and don't find in the HOLLIS catalog) can be
requested through Interlibrary
Loan.
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records for over 75 million books in libraries and other book
catalogs worldwide.
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Information Access (VIA)
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WorldCat
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