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Music (classical & jazz) & Music Technology: Books on Music

Finding Print & Electronic Books via the Library Search

  1. The easiest way to find books is via the Library Search on the Library website.

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Electronic Books supplied by your Library

Cambridge Companions to Music

Cambridge Companions to Music provide clear and accessible information on composers, instruments or musical topics, written with the student, the performer and the music lover in mind. Each volume provides a carefully structured series of specially-commissioned essays by leading authorities offering comprehensive coverage and indispensable reference material as well as absorbing reading matter.

Oxford Music Online

Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

Subjects and Shelfmarks in the Library

You can find books filed by these numbers on the shelves Curzon Library. Check BCU Library Search for specific titles and availability.

Music History by Country

  • British Music       780.941
  • French Music     780.944
  • German Music    780.943
  • Italian Music       780.945
  • Russian Music   780.947

Music History by Period

  • Medieval                  780.9031
  • Renaissance           780.9031
  • Baroque                  780.9032
  • Classical                 780.9033
  • Romantic                 780.9034
  • 20th Century            780.94

Jazz

  • Jazz                       781.65
  • Jazz Performers    781.65092

Vocal

  • Singing / Voice 783.3

Musical Forms

  • Concerto        784.23
  • Opera            782.1
  • Sonata           784.183
  • Song Cycle     782.47
  • Symphony     784.184

Musical Groupings

  • Orchestra               784.2
  • String Quartet         785.71
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Practice of Music

  • Aural Skills                         781.42
  • Composition                      781.3
  • Harmony                           781.25
  • Performance Practice       781.43
  • Orchestration                    781.374
  • Ornamentation                  781.247
  • Pitch                                  781.232
  • Psychology of Music         781.11
  • Tempo                                781.22

Theory of Music

  • Ethnomusicology                780.89
  • Music Education                 780.71
  • Music Research                  780.72
  • Music Theory                      780.1
  • Notation                              780.148

Instruments

Keyboard instruments 

  • Keyboard            786.1
  • Piano                 786.2
  • Harpsichord       786.3
  • Organ                786.5

String instruments 

  • Violin                    787.2
  • Viola                     787.3
  • Cello                     787.4
  • Double Bass         787.5
  • Harp                      787.9
  • Guitar                    787.87

Woodwind instruments 

  • Bassoon            788.58
  • Clarinet              788.62
  • Flute                   788.32
  • Oboe                  788.52
  • Recorder             788.36
  • Saxophone         788.7

Brass Instruments

  • Horn                     788.94
  • Trumpet                788.92
  • Trombone             788.93
  • Tuba                      788.98

Percussion Instruments

  • Percussion             786.81

What do I do if the Library does not have the book I need?

If the Library does not have a book which you need to study and it is more than six months since it was published we may be able to borrow it on your behalf from another Library.

This is know as an Inter-Library loan and there is information about this service here.

Use the form here to suggest a book which you wish to study but we do not have in stock - we will be happy to consider your suggestion

Key Book Chapters

Some Key Book Chapters on your Reading Lists will have been scanned and placed on our Digital Library.

Music Technology Subjects and shelfmarks

Acoustics 620.2
Audio Electronics 621.3893
Computer composition 781.34
Computer music 786.76
Computer sound synthesis 006.5
Digital audio 621.3893
Digital signal processing 621.3822
Internet Marketing 658.800285
Microphones 621.38284
MIDI 621.3828
Multimedia 006.7
Music industry 338.4778
Recording and editing software
(eg Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools) 780.285536
Recording studios 621.3893
Sound (physics of) 534
Sound engineering 621.3893
Sound recording 621.38932

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