Music Cataloging at Yale ♪ Preferred titles
Internet sources for authority work for authorized access points for musical works and expressions
Instrumental music: cello | clarinet | flute | guitar | horn | oboe | organ | piano | saxophone | trombone | viola | viola da gamba
Vocal music: chorus | hymns | motets | opera | song
Instrumental music | |
Cello | A catalogue of twentieth-century cello ensemble music (pdf) |
Clarinet | Clarinet compositions The clarinet quintet |
Flute | Claudia's flutepage (composers and flutists) |
Guitar | Boije Collection in the Music Library of Sweden Classical guitar composers list - alphabetical Classical guitar library (digital versions of guitar music in the public domain) Las compositoras españolas de obras con guitarra Max Eschig guitar catalog, pdf, 2001 gitaarplakboek.nl Guitar composers of the classical and early romantic period, circa 1780-1900 The guitar in Italy in the nineteenth century, sixty biographies of Italian composers and guitarists (PDF; Internet archive version of 12/6/05) Illiustrirovannyi biograficheskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar' gitaristy i kompository (illustrated biographical encyclopedic dictionary of guitarists and composers (in Russian (Cyrillic)) International Guitar Research Archive database of works giving titles on early editions Mujer y guitarra española (Spanish Women composers for guitar) Mantanya Ophee collection Partituras para guitarra clás (use the list of composers along the right side of the page) Select list of works written in the last 25 years for guitar held at the Australian Music Centre library Sheer pluck Three composers significant to nineteenth century Nordic guitar tradition |
Horn | Music for horns A database of music for horn ensembles |
Oboe | The Haynes catalog database of music for and with oboe up to 1800; includes incipits |
Organ | Biographical dictionary of organists, composers for organ and organ builders Composers for the organ Liste von Organisten (from German Wikipedia) |
Piano | Pianopedia: includes 894 composers, 5471 works (indicating 15748 movements or excerpt) Piano music for the left hand alone |
Saxophone | Listes des compositeurs et leurs oeuvres Catálogo de obras para saxofón de compositores de América Latina |
Trombone | Canadian compositions for trombone |
Viola | List of compositions for viola: A-E | F-K | L-R | S-Z |
Viola da gamba | Thematic index of music for viols |
Vocal music | |
Chorus | Seventeenth century choral music: vocal music to ca. 1825 Provides "information on the sources (manuscripts and early printed editions) to all currently available modern editions" Swedish music for choir 2000-2011 |
Hymns | Hymnary |
Motets | The motet database catalogue online (indexes manuscripts and printed anthologies produced between 1475 and 1600; works with Latin texts only) |
Opera | The aria databases (aria titles are alphabetized under initial article!) Italian Opera Opera composers Operone (includes brief composer biographies with lists of operas) Opernführer = Opera guide : 1001 Links zu Libretti und Inhaltsangaben in verschiedenen Sprachen Zarzuela! |
Song | Index of composers of Lieder and art songs Deutsches Lied Italian composers whose songs have been recorded by or with the Trio Lescano A-C | D-L | D-L | Q-Z |