Digital US is an online digital skills module brought to you by Student Journey, available to all Sunderland Campus students through Canvas. Completing Digital US will enable you to make a confident start with the University of Sunderland's key digital systems and develop the digital competencies and capabilities which are central to academic success, student life, employability and personal and professional practice.
03/31/2025
Suzie Williams
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Piano Day takes place annually on the 88th day of the year because of the number of keys on the instrument being celebrated, and is a worldwide event founded by a group of like-minded people.
To celebrate Piano Day this year we are highlighting a selection of the books and music we have about the piano in our library collection.
- Beethoven and the piano: Philology, context and performance practice
- Max Richter piano works
- Miss Saigon – piano/vocal selections
- The Compleant Busoni, Volume 1 – Busoni and the piano: the workings, the writings and the recordings
- The Compleant Busoni, volume 2 – Busoni’s other music: a complete survey
- Twenty-four contemporary pieces for solo piano
- Wicked: a musical (piano/vocal selections)
27th March is the annual World Theatre Day, celebrated by the international theatre community. Let us use this opportunity to explore the breadth of resources for our theatrical resources. Here are just a few of the resources we have ready for you to use when researching for your assignments:
- Contemporary black theatre and performance
- Insights into applied theatre
- Milestones in musical theatre
- Sensory theatre
- The Routledge companion to musical theatre
- The Routledge companion to theatre and young people
- Theatre as human action: an introduction to theatre arts
Your Academic Liaison Librarian, Suzie Williams, regularly writes blog posts for you on your Performance Library Subject Guide.
The posts cover a wide range of topics including details about new books we have bought for you to use, promoting key resources in your subject and much more. You can sign up to get an email alert to any new posts - there are a couple of posts each month so you won't be inundated with emails, and you can choose to unsubscribe at any time.
Just go to the Performance blog page and enter your email address where it says "Subscribe." Happy reading!
Are you keen to get stuck into reading for your assignments?
Check out the latest books bought for the School of Media and Creative Industries - books we have recently bought for programmes within the School are listed here.
It is a rolling list so gets updated each time we buy new books, so there is always something exciting for you to discover!