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Demographic Resources in Music

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Composers, Performers & Repertory (Online)

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Additional Online Resources

Audio & Visual Resources

Films on Demand

Smithsonian Global Sound/American Song

The links below will launch searches on the following subjects:

UK Libraries

UK Libraries Research Guides

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Subject Headings & Call Numbers

►SUBJECT HEADINGS & THE ADVANCED SEARCH

These links will launch searches in the Advanced Search:

For your own search:

  • Go to Advanced Search
  • Search for          Library Catalog
  • Search Filters     Subject contains   [type your terms here]
  • Material Type      All items   [or specific format]

Scores and AV are best searched by composer, performer, and/or genre, and limiting to the material type Scores, Audio, or Videos, for example:

  • Go to Advanced Search
  • Search for           Library Catalog
  • Search Filters     Author/creator contains  William Grant Still
  • AND                   Subject contains  symphonies
  • Materials Type    Audio

►CALL NUMBERS -- BOOKS

  • ML128 .B45             Bibliographies of African American music
  • ML3478--ML4379    African American music 

►CALL NUMBERS -- SCORES

  • M1670--M1671       African American ethnic music in the United States (includes spirituals, songs of enslaved people, protest songs, folk songs, etc.)

Or try searching in an Advanced Author/Creator search set to "Contains" the composer's name and setting the Material Type to Scores.

Works in the Western art music tradition are not generally given separate call numbers that indicate ethnicity, gender, orientation, or place of birth. See the document below of an outline of the Library of Congress Classification System for scores: