Music in Australia

Here are some basic tips for searching for music scores in the catalogue.

For more detailed help, visit the Finding Music Scores guide.

A keyword search is the best approach for finding music scores with their variant titles, languages and spelling.

Search using any distinctive words that describe the work you seek.

• use the plural of the musical GENRE, eg sonatas, suites, concertos
• include the name of the INSTRUMENT
• include the composer's SURNAME to help focus your results
• limit your search results to "PRINTED MUSIC"
• include a distinctive word, eg title word, opus number or thematic catalogue number. Consult the composer works' list in the Grove Music Online or The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians / 2nd. ed.

For example:

• Kats and Clocks
• Sculthorpe and Sonatina
• Greenbaum and Earth

Uniform Titles

If a score is found and you wish to locate other editions of the same work, click on the hyperlinked "uniform title" listed in the catalogue record. This will redirect you to other works using the same title.

Use the library catalogue to search for relevant books, printed versions of journals and newspapers etc.