Music Research Guide:Quick Music Reference Guide

This page provides information about and links to resources for music research available in the Mary and Jeff Bell Library

IPA books

Main collection (2nd floor):

Italian song texts from the 17th through the 20th centuries, vol.1, 17th century- ML54.6 .I85 2002 v.1

Hugo Wolf's complete song texts- ML54.6 .W853 G52 2000

Brahms' complete song texts- ML54.6 .B82 G52 1999

Schubert's complete song texts- ML54.6 .S39 G5 v.2

Phonetic readings of songs and arias- MT883 .C63

Library of Congress Classification for Piano and Voice

M7-15 - Organ

M22-25 - Keyboard (Piano, harpsichord)

Vocal Music:

M1503 - Opera/Theater full orchestra

M1508 - Opera/Theater vocal reduction (piano)

M1619 - Art Song (Anthologies, Geographic)

M1620 - Art Song/Lieder alphabetically by composer

Library of Congress Classification for Instruments

Library of Congress Classification for Music Research

Journals - ML1     

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias - ML100

History and Criticisim

By Chronological Period - starts ML162   

By region/country - starts ML198

Composer Biography - starts ML410     

Composition/Performance - starts ML430

Vocal - starts ML1400                            

Dance - starts ML3400