Research Guides: Music

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Music Books & Media

How to find books, videos, and other materials in Steely Library.

These are suggestions only and do not reflect the full range of materials that may be useful to you. For additional assistance, Ask Steely Library!

For locating specific items, using the library's catalog, NKUIRE, is recommended. Keyword, Author, Title, and Subject are among the ways you can search.

For Non-Print Media (videos, DVDs, CDs, slides, etc.), consider the "Media Searches" tab atop the NKUIRE search page.

The Media Collections unit of Steely Library (SL 215) houses a keyboard, scores, CDs and DVDs for use by piano pedagogy and other music students. These materials are for in-house 2-hour checkout.

Browsing for books in Steely's Reference and Circulating collections can be very useful.

For Music, the following call number areas are suggested:

All musical scores have call numbers beginning with M.

Call numbers beginning with ML are assigned to resources that talk about music.

Call numbers beginning with MT are assigned to information about the theory of music.

New Music titles in the library catalog, NKUIRE.

The Music Research Guide is maintained by Jennifer Smith. Suggestions and comments are welcome.