- List of types of composition for use in authorized access points for music : a manual for use with RDA
- A comparison of uniform titles (AACR2) and preferred titles (RDA) for musical works
- Types of composition and LC subject headings
- RDA:
- Recording titles of works (RDA 6.2.1) See also Recording preferred titles for musical works (RDA 6.14)
- Recording form of work (RDA 6.3)
- Recording date and place of origin of works (RDA 6.4-6.5)
- Recording date, language, and other distinguishing characteristics of expression (RDA 6.10-6.11)
- Recording preferred title for musical works (RDA 6.14)
- Recording medium of performance for musical works (RDA 6.15)
- Recording numeric designation for musical works (RDA 6.16)
- Recording key for musical works (RDA 6.17)
- Recording other distinguishing characteristic of the expression of musical works (RDA 6.18)
- Collaborative works and Compilations of works (RDA 6.27.1.3 and 6.27.1.4)
- Access points representing musical works (RDA 6.28.1.1-6.28.1.8)
- Additions to access points representing musical works (RDA 6.28.1.9-6.28.1.11)
- Authorized access point representing a part or parts of a musical work (RDA 6.28.2)
- Access points representing musical expressions (RDA 6.28.3)
- Work numbers for authorized access points for composers whose works are assigned numbers other than opus numbers or in addition to opus numbers
- Sources of information
- Printed biographical sources for composers and their works
- Thematic indexes used in the Library of Congress/NACO authority file (What the heck is a thematic index?)
- Online resources for preferred titles
- Internet sources for authority work for authorized access points for music
- Themefinder: composers' works lists
- Vocal Music Instrumentation Index: movements from JS Bach, CPE Bach, Handel, Jacquet de La Guerre, Campra, Clérambault, Montéclair, Rameau, and other composers using scholarly sources, browsable by instrumentation and text
- Composers' worklists on the web | in published scores, books, and periodicals
- Russische Komponisitionen (Russian composers' worklists; in German)
- Online thematic catalogs
- Bach: Bach digital database: information on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers from the Bach family
- Britten: Britten thematic catalogue (BETA version; not yet finalized)
- Frescobaldi: Frescobaldi Thematic Catalogue Online (FTCO)
- Lully: A thematic locator for the works of Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Mozart: Neue Mozart-Ausgabe online
- Pachelbel: Pachelbel-Werke-Verzeichnis (PWV) : Vokalmusik (vocal music only)
- Schubert: Thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge
- Telemann: Catalogue TWV
- Vivaldi: Works listed by F number, with R, P, RV, and opus numbers
- Online score collections
- International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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- Choral Public Domain Library (choral and vocal works by at least 3546 composers)
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- Free online scores (lib guide from Yale University Music Library)
- International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Online music publishers' catalogs
- Multiple composers by instrument or genre
- RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales): information on searching RISM; online catalog of A/I: Einzeldrucke vor 1800 (Individual prints before 1800); A/II: Music manuscripts after 1600; and B/I: Printed collections of the 16th-18th centuries (first half only, covering the years 1500-1550; includes a PDF index of composers
- Hofmeister XIX: searchable database of Hofmeister monthly lists of music publications for the years 1829-1900
- Ricordi catalog: list of publications from plate no. 1 (1808)-plate no. 41568 (1870); searchable by composer
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Musik Imagekataloge (copy of the paper card catalog through 1989)
- Sites with digital images of scores and manuscripts
- Danmarks digitale nodebibliotek: Det Kongelige Bibliotek's digital facsimiles of printed scores and manuscripts
- Conservatorio di Milano Digital library
- International Music Score Library Project
- Catalogs of music manuscripts
- Catalogue of manuscript music in the British Museum; vol. 3, Instrumental music, treatises, etc., 1909 (online version from Internet Archive)
- RISM: music manuscripts held in libraries in United States (post-1600) | United Kingdom and Ireland | Switzerland | Italy
- Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias