Finding Music Scores

Used to identify and verify the works of specific composers, genre or instrumentation.

They often include:

• incipits (the music of the first few bars of each movement)
• the location of the manuscript (if available)

Composer thematic catalogues

For example:

• Bach BWV catalogue
• Haydn Hoboken catalogue
• Mozart Kochel catalogue

Located in the Reference collection at 016.78092 and 781.972, and are arranged by composer name.

Search the library catalogue to see if there is a thematic catalogue for your composer:

• Use a keyword search and include the keywords 'thematic catalogs' (Note spelling of 'catalogs').
• If there is a completed Collected Edition for that composer, a thematic catalogue may not be necessary.
• The following bibliography may be useful:

Browse the Reference Collection

Use the Dewey classification system to help locate material relating to a specific genre and instrument combination.

For example:

• 016.7862.. or  786.2... Piano and respective repertoire
• 016.7825.. or  785...    Choral Music and repertoire
• 016.7824.. or  782.4... Secular Vocal Music - Madrigals, popular songs, etc.

Search

​Use a keyword search to combine a specific genre or period with terms such as  'bibliography', 'discography' and 'catalog*'.

For example:

• classical bibliography
• classical discography
• opera bibliography
• piano discography
• classical catalog*
• chamber music bibliography
• chamber music catalog*