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Book Tips
- Off campus? Want a book? Request it via the catalog!
- Can't find exactly what you want? Try Interlibrary Loan!
Subject Searching Tips
- Use these terms to search both the online catalog and the databases!
- You can also search with composers' names, musical styles, etc.
Subject Terms for Music History
- Use these to search for books in the Online Catalog and in the Databases!
- Music--History and criticism
- Music--History and criticism--Sources
- Music--History and criticism--500-1400
- Music--History and criticism--15th century (16th century, etc.)
- Music--Baroque influences
- Music--15th century (16th century, etc.)
- Musical analysis--Music collections
- Renaissance music
- Music--Europe, Western--15th century--History and criticism (substitute 16th century, etc.)
- Romantic music
- Music--Social aspects
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics
- Music--History and criticism--18th century--France (example of using a country)
- Music--Theory--18th century (17th century, etc.)
- Motets
- Motet--15th century (16th century, etc.)
- Madrigals
- Part-songs
- Polyphonic chansons
- Polyphonic lieder
- Hildegard--Saint--1098-1179
- Guillaume--de Machaut--ca. 1300-1377
- Guillaume de Machaut
- Guillaume Du Fay
- Josquin des Prez
- Byrd, William, 1542 or 3-1623
- William Byrd
- Thomas Weelkes
- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Monteverdi, Claudio--1567-1643
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Barbara Strozzi
