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Amadeus Research Project

The resources below will guide you in your research about famous composers, 18th century Austria/Germany fashion, history, music, daily life, medical care, burial rituals, or other themes or details from Amadeus.

Encyclopedia Resources

Read Around Your Topic

During the beginning stages of your research, reading around your topic helps you to:

Build a foundation of understanding.
Find a path for your research.
Identify important key terms, events, and people for your research.

Encyclopedia Databases provide thorough background information on a variety of topics and are a strong resource at this stage of research.

ABC-CLIO: World History
Encyclopedia articles to explore modern era world history.
Britannica
A great online encyclopedia database for background and introductory research.
ABC-CLIO: World Geography
Encyclopedia articles to explore modern world geography.

Article Resources

Explore Deeper

The following resources are best when you already have:

A basic understanding of what you are looking for.
A collection of key terms, events, and people to add to your search.

Article Databases search through a curated collection of newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and more. There are often many more articles with greater depth than Encyclopedia databases. Adding your key terms to a search will help you narrow your results.

Gale World History in Context
Explore topics in World History through authoritative curated content.
Gale Biography in Context
Curated content about and related to thousands of individuals from history and today.
Gale Pop Culture
Curated resources related to the study of modern pop culture.

Additional Industrial Revolution Sources

Websites

Website and Articles Related to Possible Topics

Classical Composers by Era Wikipedia (cannot be used as a source)
This is a tool but NOT a source. You can use this page to help you discover a composer to research, and possibly find linked citations to other online resources that could be used as a source.
Google Arts and Culture
Could be an interesting place to explore artifacts from museums and other cultural institutions. "Google Arts & Culture is a non-commercial initiative. We work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. Together, our mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere."
Classical Music: Google Arts and Culture
Stories, images, and resources tagged with "Classical Music" from Google Arts and Culture.
Vienna Google Arts and Culture
Collections, stories, and artifacts from cultural institutions related to Vienna.
Discovering the Great Composers
From the BBC. This page links to podcasts and audio related to numerous composers.
10 Black Composers
This article from The Guardian explores 10 prominent Black composers that are often overlooked.
Victoria and Albert Museum Fashion Collection
"Spanning five centuries, our Fashion collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of dress in the world. Key items in the collection include rare 17th century gowns, 18th century ‘mantua’ dresses, 1930s eveningwear, 1960s daywear and post-war couture. "
Eighteenth-Century European Dress: The Met
An article from The Met by a curator for the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Department, Victoria and Albert Museum.

Vienna and Versailles by Jeroen Duindam; Peter Baldwin (Contribution by); Christopher Clark (Contribution by); James B. Collins (Contribution by); Mia Rodr¡guez-Salgado (Contribution by); Lyndal Roper (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780521822626
Publication Date: 2003-08-14
Extensive Preview through Google Books. "This book brings vividly to life the courtiers and servants of the imperial court in Vienna and the royal court at Paris-Versailles."
Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Vienna by Janet K. Page
ISBN: 9781107039087
Publication Date: 2014-04-24
Extensive preview of book through Google Books. "Janet K. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents."
Music in Vienna by David Wyn Jones
ISBN: 9781783271078
Publication Date: 2016-06-16
Extensive book preview through Google Books. " This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900."