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Music Online: Classical Scores Library is a series of four volumes with a mission to provide a reliable and authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection will enhance the study of music history, performance, composition and theory for a variety of scholars. Includes Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume I - IV. Terms of Use

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The listings on this page include only select recommendations. For more music resources please consult the library guide for Music: http://libraries.wichita.edu/music

Dictionary of Musical Themes by Harold Barlow; Sam Morgenstern (Compiled by); J. Erskine (Introduction by)
Call Number: REF ML128.I65 B3 1975 in Music Library and Ablah Library
ISBN: 0517524465
An index to over 10,000 themes of instrumental music, with musical incepits for identification. Transpose the theme in question to the key of “C” major or minor and match the letters of the notes to the letter sequence in the back of the book, which acts as an index to the themes listed by composer in the main portion of the book. Can’t remember that tune, but you can hum it? This is a good place to look. A second copy is available to check out from Ablah Library, second floor.
Choral music reviews index
Call Number: REF ML128.C48 C5 in Music Library
In 2 volumes, volume I covers works reviewed from 1983-1985, while volume II covers works reviewed from 1986-1988. Works are listed by title, with coded information about voicing, level of difficulty, vocal range, language, level of accompaniment, duration, sources for extended reviews, the general nature of the review and etc.. These volumes also contain particularly useful indexes by composer, arranger, editor, use/special purpose, level of difficulty, voicing, and accompanying instruments.
Music in Early America: a Bibliography of Music in Evans by Hixon, Donald L.
Call Number: REF ML120.U5 H6
An index to the seventeenth and eighteenth century music represented in Evans’ American Bibliography, Z1215 .E9232 1967 or MICROFICHE A6 23496-502.
Songs in collections by DeCharms & Breed
Call Number: REF ML128.S3 D37 in Music Library and in Ablah Library
This is a set of indices bound together in a single volume to art songs and arias, folk songs, carols and sea chanties, found in collections published from approximately 1940-1957. When looking up the song/aria title, make sure you are looking in the correct index section by consulting the table of contents. A second copy is available to check out from Ablah Library, second floor.
The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library by Ellen Luchinsky (Editor); Enoch Pratt Free Library Staff
Call Number: ML128.S3 L665 1998
ISBN: 0815329180
This 2 volume work indexes songs in over 2000 collections, of all genres. The 2nd volume provides an index by composer and a listing of operas, musicals, movies and etc., with their associated song titles. This work is handy for its coverage of more recently published collections than the DeCharms, "Songs in Collections."
Index to Poetry in Music by Carol June Bradley
Call Number: REF ML128.S3 B68 2003 in Music Library
ISBN: 0415943027
An index to poetry set in solo songs, covering the work of 125 Western composers. The index lists titles of poems, of songs, poets, composers and cross-references first lines.
By any other name : a guide to the popular names and nicknames of classical music and to theme music in films, radio, television and broadcast advertisements by Ranson, P. (Philip)
Call Number: REF ML113.R3 1984 in Music Library
ISBN: 0906433029
This source may be used to identify the proper title of a work including theme music in films, radio, television and broadcast advertisements, focusing on but not limited to classical music.
Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes by PSrons, Denys
Call Number: REF ML128.I65 P33 in Music Library
Also known as the “up-down book,” this volume attempts to answer the question: “What is the name of that tune” by translating the opening melody to a directional pattern. In 3 sections covering classical tunes, popular tunes and national anthems, if you can hum it and its listed here, you can find it.
Song Index; an Index to More Than 12,000 Songs in 177 Song Collections Comprising 262 Volumes and Supplement, 1934 by Sears, Minnie Earl
Call Number: REF ML128.S3 S31 1966 in Music Library
Though this is primarily an index of art songs, this also covers anthologies of folk songs, sea chanteys, Christmas carols, sacred songs and school/college songs. Be sure to check both the main section as well as the supplement section, though both are bound together. An additional copy is found in Ablah Library, 2nd floor.
Wedding Music by William D. Goodfellow
Call Number: REF ML128.W4 G6 1992 in Music Library and Online
ISBN: 0810825759
This index to 191 vocal and instrumental collections was compiled specifically to access music suitable for weddings. Find titles or first lines, works by composer or works by instrument. An electronic copy is available through the electronic catalog.
Schumann Index by Weichlein, William J. (William Jesset)
Call Number: REF ML134.S4 W4 in Music Library
This is an index to the solo songs composed by Robert Schumann as found in the Werke (on microform in the Ablah Library Reserves section, call number M3.S393 1969) and to five additional art song anthologies.
Dictionary of Translated Names and Titles by Adrian Room
Call Number: NX80.R66 1986 in Ablah Library, 2nd floor
ISBN: 0710099533
Titles of artistic creations (plays, novels, films, musical works, paintings, and etc.), characters (historical and mythical), biblical personages, historical events and geographical names, are here given in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian, with cross-indices in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian.
Dictionary of Opera and Song Themes by Harold Barlow and Sam Morgenstern
Call Number: REF ML128.V7 B3 1950a in Music Library
Can’t remember that tune, but you can hum it? This is a good place to look. This is a listing of musical incipits for identification. To use the notation index, transpose the theme to the key of “C” major or minor and match the letters of the notes, match the letter sequence in the back of the book, which acts as an index to the themes listed, by composer in the main portion of the book.
Encyclopedia of National Anthems by Xing Hang
Call Number: REF M1627 .E53 2011 in Music Library
ISBN: 9780810876620
These 2 volumes contain music and words (transliteration and English translations) to national anthems of the world. More recent than National Anthems of the World, this also contains quick country facts and sometimes notes with historical background. For copies of national anthems to check out see also National Anthems of the World M1627.N269, in the scores section of the Music Library.
Index of Gregorian Chant by John R. Bryden & David G. Hughes
Call Number: REF ML102.C45 B8 in Music Library
In 2 volumes, with an alphabetical index and a thematic index, each entry provides the mode, a textual incipit, the category of chant, the initial and final pitch, and a coded melodic incipit.
Hymn Tune Names by Robert Guy McCuthchan
Call Number: REF ML3186 .M22 in Music Library
This is a listing of hymns by title with meter markings, melodic phrase in letter notation, composer/source, date of composition or appearance in print, alternative names and notes on history or background, with indices for melodies and first lines.

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