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Musical Scores and Recordings: Find Music Scores

Find Music Scores

To find music scores at SMU, begin with the online Library Search. Try Advanced Search first so that you get more precise results. Search using Title AND, Author Name (Composer) and then set Material Type to "Scores." 

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For genre titles, try using plural forms, i.e. "symphonies," "sonatas," etc. in the Title field.

To get more refined results, it helps to use the plural form of the genre and to include a specific instrument. For example, Vivaldi composed hundreds of concertos for many different instruments.  

To get more refined results, it helps to use the plural form of the genre and to include a specific instrument. For example, Vivaldi composed hundreds of concertos for many different instruments.  

Author Name "Vivaldi" AND Title "concertos" AND Title "violin" will help you find a smaller list of results from the nearly 450 total concertos owned by the library.

See the Uniform Titles tab to better understand how titles are standardized in online catalogs.