The Fine Arts and Recreation Department of the State Library Resource Center covers such subjects as art, music, architecture, dance, antiques, and sports.
Essential Resources
The Dictionary of Architecture and Construction offers comprehensive coverage of architectural and construction terms, with nearly 25,000 definitions and 2,500 illustrations.
Grove’s Dictionary of Art is a 34 volume encyclopedic reference set covering all aspects of art, including history, techniques, places, artist biographies and more.
Janson’s History of Art is considered one of the definitive reference sources on Western art, this book is arranged chronologically from ancient times to postmodernism, and includes a helpful glossary.
Maloney’s Antiques and Collectibles Resource Directory is a first source subject guide to identify collectors, dealers, experts, businesses and publications that assist in the location, authentication, replacement, repair, and valuation when and buying and selling antiques and collectibles.
The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia includes statistics, standings, and historical information on the history, growth and game of professional football.
ESPN Sports Almanac offers an in-depth look at the previous year in sports, updated annually.
Hoyle's Rules of Games contains rules and advice on how to play many different card games and board games.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is, despite its name, a hugely comprehensive encyclopedia that informative entries about music, musical terms, composers and performers.
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music covers popular music from 1900 to today with entries about everything from Broadway musicals to heavy metal music.
The Harvard Dictionary of Music is great for shorter, easy to understand explanations of musical terms.
Other Sources
Kovels’ Antiques and Collectibles Price List offers an alphabetically arranged price guide for collectors, with historical backgrounds of the items included.
Warman’s Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide is an illustrated, large-format guide that also refers readers to pertinent publications, museums, collectors, clubs and auction houses.
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms is a concise dictionary containing over 2,000 entries on the subjects of painting and sculpture, architecture and photography, as well as the decorative, applied, and graphic arts.
The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques is an excellent resource for detailed information related to the technical side of painting, including descriptions of pigments, different paint media, a pigment catalog, and an extensive index.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport is a four volume set that covers the histories of world sport, as well as issues that affect and have affected the history of sports around the world.
International Encyclopedia of Dance set covers all forms of dance as well as biographical information about its most well known practitioners in a six volumes.
Martial Arts of the World contains a wealth of information on many forms of martial arts from around the world.
The Great Song Thesaurus includes information for over 11,000 popular songs from the 16th century to the 1980’s.
The Popular Song Index, now on it’s fourth supplement, is one of the best sources out there for finding sheet music.
This Business of Music is considered the standard text on music business, with information about recording contracts, copyright, performance rights and much more.
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