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Performing Arts Dictionaries
 Websites presented in alphabetical order American Ballet Theatre's Online Ballet Dictionary 
 An "interactive resource designed to bring dance to the Web and make it accessible to everyone. ... This is not a comprehensive list of ballet terms and forms." Many terms are demonstrated with small videos featuring American Ballet Theatre Company dancers. Browsable alphabetically. From the American Ballet Theatre (ABT). http://www.abt.org/education/dictionary/index.html Topics: Dance, Dictionaries Last updated Aug 13, 2005 Glossary of Film Terms
More than 700 definitions of film terms arranged topically and alphabetically. From a filmmaker. http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/film_courses/glossary_of_film_terms/ Topics: Dictionaries, Film, Movies, & Video, Recreation Last updated Apr 25, 2007 Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians
This dictionary provides some help in "pronouncing the titles of classical music and the names of composers and performers" in "the form of pronunciations by a phonetic system devised by E. Douglas Brown of the staff of WOI Radio at Iowa State University." The browsable dictionary provides more than 30,000 entries. Unfortunately, it is not searchable, and there are no audio files. http://iowapublicradio.org/dictionary/ Topics: Dictionaries, Language, Literature & Books, Musical Genres, Performing Arts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts Last updated Sep 18, 2005 The Rap Dictionary
A lexicon of thousands of terms related to rap and hip-hop music, now a wiki. Be warned that some of the terms are crude. http://www.rapdict.org/Main_Page Topics: Dictionaries, English Language, Musical Genres Last updated Apr 25, 2007 |
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