Remember. . . We have Arts books in the Multimedia Room, too.
Dance
- RealTime Arts – Information about dance in Australia.
- Steezy – How to choreograph a dance in 6 simple steps.
- Theatrical Worlds – Online textbook.
Drama
- Drama Online – Useful explanations of genres, time periods and playwrights for free, but most of the content behind a paywall.
Media
- Australian Screen – Operated by NFSA.
- Exploring Movie Construction and Production – Online textbook.
- Filmink – Source about all things movies and screen.
- National Film and Sound Archive (Australia) – Thousands of video and audio clips.
- Open Culture – 1,150 Free Movies.
- Open Textbook Library – 10+ texts about journalism, media studies and communications.
Film Movement Assignment (Year 11)
Media Adaptations to the Digital Environment
Music
- Europeana – European recordings, sheet music and more.
- Introduction to Pitch Notation in Music – Music Fundamentals 1.
- Minor Keys and Scales – Music Fundamentals 3.
- Music and the Child – Online textbook.
- Music: Its Language, History and Culture – Online textbook.
- Music Textbooks – Seven freely available.
- Pixabay Audio – Range of genres to freely download and remix.
- Sound Reasoning: A New Way to Listen – Online textbook.
- Triads, Chords, Introduction to Roman Numerals – Music Fundamentals 5.
- Understanding Basic Music Theory – Online textbook.
- Understanding Music Past and Present – Online textbook.
Photography
- Artsy – Photographs from galleries, museums, auctions and more.
- Europeana – Photographs from European galleries, museums and other collections.
- Phlearn – Free and subscription tutorials on Photoshop, Lightroom and photography.
Visual Arts, Ceramics & Glass
- Art Cyclopedia – Artist biographies, information on artworks, and art museums.
- Art History Rules – Information and advice on writing art history essays and finding sources.
- Artsy – Collections from galleries, museums, auctions and more.
- Artvee – Browse and download high-resolution, public-domain art works (mainly European).
- Design & Art Australia online – A database and research tool for Art and Design.
- Europeana – Artworks from European museums and galleries.
- Getty Museum Virtual Library – 300+ free ebooks.
- Introduction to Art: Design, Context and Meaning – Online textbook.
- Khan Academy – Free online courses about art history.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications – 580+ free art history books
- National Gallery of Australia – Search their collection: Australian/other artists, works of art, periods, styles etc.
- National Library of Australia: Pictures collection – Australian people, places, events. Early European exploration of the South Pacific to contemporary events.
- Textbook of History of Painting – by John Charles Van Dyke (2006)
