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Demographic Resources in Music

Composers, Performers & Repertory (Online)

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Audio & Visual Resources

Smithsonian Global Sound

Spotify

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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   Jake Shimabukuro
  • AND                   Subject contains   guitar
  • Material Type      Videos

►CALL NUMBERS -- BOOKS

  • ML200 .H4           Hawaiian music -- History and criticism         
  • ML3560 .H3         Hawaiian folk, national, and ethnic music

►CALL NUMBERS -- 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: