MUL 335: History of Music I: Finding Books & Articles

Below are some suggested search terms to use when searching OneSearch or library databases. Search techniques may vary with each database, so look at help screens or ask a librarian for suggestions about using quotation marks and truncation symbols.

Leave out the word "and" when doing a keyword search in OneSearch, since this is automatically added if the phrase is not in quotes. Put phrases in quotation marks to search as a phrase. Use * as a truncation or wildcard symbol in OneSearch. 

• choral music
• baroque dance
• early opera
• opera origin?
• vivaldi baroque
• italy composers
• handel biography
• "music education" history
• church music history
• women composers
• "instrumental music" france
• music printing
• music "middle ages"

Books About Music: ML

• ML13: Almanacs, directories, etc. 
• ML48: librettos
• ML50: librettos 
• ML55: essays, papers, addresses, etc. 
• ML86: portraits, pictorial works 
• ML90: writings on musicians 
• ML93: manuscripts, autographs, facsimiles 
  • ML96.5: facsimiles of composers' works 
• ML100: dictionaries, encyclopedias 
• ML111: bibliography 
  • ML128: by topic (e.g., ML128.S-, string music) 
  • ML134: by composer 
• ML159: history and criticism 
  • ML162: by chronological period 
  • ML200: by country 
  • ML385: by composer (i.e., biography) 
• ML410: biographies of composers 
• ML460: instruments and instrumental music 
• ML1400: vocal music 
• ML3781: national (i.e., "folk") music 
• ML3800: philosophy and physics 
  • ML3805: acoustics and physics 
  • ML3845: aesthetics and aesthetic criticism 
• MT2: history and criticism of theory 
• MT6-MT950: instruction and study 
  • MT6: general, including appreciation of music 
  • MT40: composition 
  • MT70: orchestration 
  • MT90: analytic guides to music 
  • MT170: instrumental techniques 
  • MT820: singing and voice culture