Research Guides: Music: Find Books

New Books

Odetta: a life in music and protest by Ian Zack
Call Number: ML420.O34 Z3 2020
ISBN: 9780807035320
Publication Date: 2020-04-14
Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: the invention of musical notation by Susan Rankin
Call Number: ML174 .R26 2018
ISBN: 9781108421409
Publication Date: 2018-11-08
Glitter up the Dark: how pop music broke the binary by Sasha Geffen
Call Number: ML3470.G44 G55 2020
ISBN: 9781477318782
Publication Date: 2020-04-07

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Finding Materials about Music in the Library

M for Music

The materials in Geisel Library are arranged by Library of Congress (LC) call number. All books on music are classified with M at the beginning of the call number.

M = Music books (to perform from). These are shelved on the lower level in Oversize.
ML = Music history and biography. Shelved on the upper level.
MT = Music theory and teaching. Shelved on the upper level.

Music recordings are shelved in the Krantz Music Collection on the lower level.
MX = Musical recordings
MY = Spoken recordings of literature, audiobooks
MZ = Spoken recordings of lectures, programmed instruction