Music Performance: Call Numbers

Search the stacks by call number to locate keyboard music in the UW Libraries. Browsing by call number, you will find performance repertoire, histories, and method books on the physical shelves.

Solo

• ​M6-19: Solo Organ
  • M6: Collections
  • M8-M19: Pieces by form/type (sonatas, fugues, etc)
  • M11.2: Pedal pieces
  • M13: Service Music
  • M14: Music for a season or occasion (wedding music, holy week, Pentecost, etc)
  • M15-19: Reed Organ
     
• M20-M39 Solo Piano
  • M20-M22: Collections
  • M23: Sonatas
  • M24: Suites 
  • M26: Piano, 1 hand
  • M27: Variations
  • M30-M32: Dances

Duets

• M198-M216: Duets & Duos (piano only)
• M217-M239: Duets (piano and one stringed instrument)
• M240-M271: Duets (piano and one wind instrument)
• M272-M283: Duets (piano and one plucked instrument)
• M284-M285: Duets (piano and one other - percussion, electronics, etc.)

Trios

• M310-M314: Piano, two bowed instruments
• M315-M319: Piano, two wind instruments
• M320-M324: Piano, one bowed instrument, one wind instrument
• M330-M334: Piano, one wind instrument, one bowed instrument​
• M335-M339: Piano, one wind instrument, one plucked instrument
• M340-M344: Piano and other instrument combinations

Orchestral Accompaniment

• M1005: Organ with Orchestra
• M1010: Piano with orchestra (ex: concertos) in full score
• M1011: Piano with orchestra, orchestra in piano reduction (2-piano versions)

Literature, History, and Criticism 

• ML650-ML747: General: history and construction; music and playing

Instruction and Study

• MT130-MT145: Analytical guides to piano music
• MT220-MT258: Piano techniques (including teaching materials)
• MT745-MT758: Instruction and study for children

• Composer Name + Identifying information for the piece: title/opus number/form:
  • Haydn piano sonatas  
  • Beethoven piano concerto "op. 37"     
    (quotation marks create a "forced phrase" which narrows search to only results with exact contents of quotes)

Use Library of Congress Subject Headings to locate resources for keyboard in the UW Libraries Search. Use the "Advanced Search" option to limit your search by "Subject" when using the controlled subject headings listed below:

• Piano music
• Piano quartets 
• Piano trios 
• Suites (Piano)
• Concertos (Piano)
• Concertos (Piano with string orchestra)
• Piano with orchestra
• Piano music--Bibliography
• Piano music--Discography
• Piano--History
• Pianists