Reference Guides - Guitar This guide is designed to help you find information about, and music for, the guitar. Use this as a starting point, or browsing tool. As always, consult Voyager and the catalogs for complete holdings information, and when uncertain, ask at the Reference Desk!
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Suggested Call Numbers for Shelf Browsing Below are general call number ranges. For specific call numbers, consult the Library of Congress Classification Schedule in the blue book at the Reference Desk, and/or Voyager.
M125-M129 Guitar alone M276-M277 Guitar with piano accompaniment M282-M283 Works for balalaika, domra etc. with piano M292-M293 Duets - two plectral instruments M294-M295 Duets - with one string instrument M296-M297 Duets - with one wind instrument M1037.4 Concertos with orchestra M1137.4 Concertos with string orchestra ML1015.G9 Guitar history and criticism MT580-MT588 Studies and methods Guitar gift Miscellaneous guitar works not yet cataloged
For trios, quartets, and other ensembles, see the Chamber Music guide.
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Suggested Subject Headings Below are examples of some useful subject headings for use in Voyager and the Card Catalog. For complete listings of headings, consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings (red books).
Headings for Voyager Headings for Subject Catalog guitar* music Under "guitar": guitar and [flute, piano etc.] collections guitar with [band, orchestra etc.] concertos guitar music guitars 2 solos with ensembles sonatas guitar sonatas concertos guitar studies concertos guitar solo with piano suites plectral ensembles quartets guitar Under "chamber music": quintets guitar duets: guitar [follow for sextets, septets, octets, nonets] trios:guitar etc.
* "Lute", "balalaika", etc. may also be used in place of "guitar".
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Selected Bibliography of Literature and Repertoire Lists Chaine, Jacques, comp. The Orphee data-base of guitar records. Columbus: Editions Orphee, 1990. Ref. ML156.4.G96 C4 1990 Gilmore, George. Guitar music index: a cross-indexed and graded listing of music in print for classical guitar & lute. Honolulu: Galliard Press, 1976. Ref. ML128.G9 G486 Jape, Mijndert. Classical guitar music in print. Philadelphia: Musicdata, Inc., 1989. Ref. ML118.M988 vol.7, 1989 (1998 supplement ML118.M988 vol.7s 1998) Lyons, David B. Lute, vihuela, guitar to 1800: a bibliography. Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1978. Ref. ML128.L88 L991 McCutcheon, Meredith Alice. Guitar and vihuela: an annotated bibliography. New York: Pendragon Press, 1985. Ref. ML128.G9 M133 1985 Noad, Frederick M. The virtual guitarist: hardward, softward, and websites for the guitar. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998. Ref. ML1015.G9 N739 1998 Purcell, Ron. Classic guitar, lute, and vihuela discography. Melville, NY: Belwin-Mills Pub. Corp., 1976. ML156.4.I58 P98 Purcell, Ronald C. and Darien S. Mann. Guitar music collection of Vahdah Olcott-Bickford. Northridge: Music Library of California State University, Northridge: International Guitar Research Archive, c1991-. Ref. ML128.G9 G96 1991 Rezits, Joseph. The guitarist's resource guide: guitar music in print and books on the art of guitar. San Diego, CA: Pallma Music Co., 1983. Ref. ML128.G9 R467 1983 Sadie, Stanley. New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1984. Ref. ML102.I5 N532 1984 Schwarz, Werner. Guitar bibliography: an international listing of theoretical literature on classical guitar from the beginning to the present. Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1984. Ref. ML128.G9 S411 1984 Smith, Dorman H. and Laurie Eagleson. Guitar and lute music in periodicals: an index. Berkeley, CA: Fallen Leaf Press, c1990. Ref. ML128.G9 S645 1990 Summerfield, Maurice J. The Classical Guitar: Its Evolution and Players Since 1800, 2nd ed. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Ashley Mark, 1991. Ref. ML399.S955 C6 1991 Torpp Larsson, Jytte. Catalogue of the Rischel and Birket-Smith Collection of guitar music in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. Columbus: Editions Orphee, 1989. Ref. ML136.C78 K82 T6 1989
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Periodicals
- Classical Guitar
- Early Music
- The Galpin Society Journal
- Guitar & Lute
- Guitar Player
- Guitar Review
- Historical Performance
- Il fronimo
- Journal of the Lute Society of America
- Performance Practice Review
- Soundboard
Current issues of periodicals are found alphabetically in the current periodicals room (third floor). For call numbers of older, bound issues, look in the Sibley Library Serials list (found on quick reference shelves).
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Compiled by Phil Ponella, 7/95, Rev. 7/97; Rev. 6/99 by Jim Farrington
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