Finding Choral Music Materials

Useful Class numbers for browsing:

• ML 1500 = History of choral music
• MT 875 = Choral Singing

Finding information:

Initiate a SUBJECT search in ALCUIN using singular form of a term:
Cantata
Choral Music
Church Music

Finding printed music and recordings:

Use plural forms for SUBJECT search in ALCUIN:
Choruses
Choruses, Sacred
Madrigals

Finding a specific work:

• Initiate a TITLE search in ALCUIN for the title; Use original language if known, and Ignore initial articles: ("Stern von Bethlehem", not "Der Stern von Bethlehem")
• Initiate an Author search in ALCUIN under composer's last name, first name. Arrangement of composer's works is by UNIFORM TITLE. You can jump to the title you need (distinctive title, or form) of browse through the list and follow the cross-references.

Basic Reference Tools:

• Secular Choral Music in Print
  Ref ML 128 .V7 D3 1987
• Sacred Choral Music in Print
  Ref ML 188 .V7 E78 1985
• American Choral Music Sonce 1920: An Annotated Guide
  Ref ML 128 .C48 D45 1993
• Choral Music by African Americans
  Ref ML 128 .C48 W5 1996

Journals:

• Choral Journal
• American Choral Review
  
• The Hymn