A Brief Guide to Finding
Flute Music and Related Material
in the UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library
Looking for a score or recording of a specific piece of music
When searching for a particular piece, remember that not all of the Music Library's materials are in the online catalog! If you don't find what you want online, check the card catalogs!
Online Catalog
The best way to search for scores or recordings online is via ADVANCED KEYWORD, using the most distinctive words in the author's name and work title:
| ADVANCED KEYWORD: | Mozart and flute and concert* and 314 |
| MATERIAL TYPE: | Print Music |
| ADVANCED KEYWORD: | flute and Philippa Davies and compact |
| MATERIAL TYPE: | Musical recording |
| ADVANCED KEYWORD: | Bach and partita* and flute and 1013 |
| MATERIAL TYPE: | Musical recording |
Card Catalog
If you use the card catalog to search for a specific piece, look under the composer's last name. Works are alphabetical behind the composer's name, arranged by UNIFORM TITLE:
eg) Telemann, Georg Philip
[Sonatas, 2 flutes, op.2]
If you don't know the opus or thematic number of the piece, see the composer's WORKS list in Grove Music Online on the Music Library website or the appropriate volume of New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd ed Ref. ML100.N48 2000 in the Reference Room.
If UNC-Chapel Hill doesn't own a piece of music you want, use WORLDCAT under Music Resources on the Music Library web page to search for a library that owns it and will Interlibrary Loan it to you. Ask a staff member if you need help.
Browsing for flute music
Because printed music and books are classified - that is, grouped with similar items on the shelf - browsing can be an effective method for finding what you want. So if you are looking for music in a particular medium, these Library of Congress classifications can guide you in the stacks (this is NOT a complete list!):
| M61+ | solo flute music |
| M240+ | flute and harpsichord music |
| M242+ | flute and piano music |
| M288+ | music for 2 flutes, also flute and one other wind instrument |
| M291+ | music for flute and one stringed instrument |
| M296+ | music for flute and one plucked instrument |
| M312 | piano trios |
| M357.2 | wind trios |
| M457.2 | wind quartets |
| M557+ | wind quintets |
| M657+ | wind sextets |
| M757 | wind septets |
| M1020 | flute with orchestra or chamber orchestra |
| M1120+ | flute with string orchestra |
| Ref. ML128.F7 | bibliographies of flute music |
| Ref. ML132 | graded lists of music |
| ML935+ | flute history and criticism |
| MT140+ | analytical guides |
| MT340+ | flute instruction and study |
| MT801.F5 | flute instruction for children |
You may also browse the online and card catalogs by SUBJECT. For a complete list of subject headings, see Music Subject Headings Ref. ML111.B815 1988, kept on the index table in the Reference Room. Use the same phrases whether you look online or in the card catalog. Flute subject headings begin on page 230. Examples are:
| Concertos (Flute) | Flute and violin music | Flute ensembles |
| Sonatas (Flute) | Flute and violoncello music | Flute music (Jazz) |
| Suites (Flutes (2)) | Flute and piano music | Trios (Flute, guitar, violin) |
Journals in the Music Library:
Recent issues are kept in the stacks near the glass Reading Room. Bound issues are shelved in the Reference/Bound Periodicals Room (A-O) and the stacks (P-Z).
- Chamber Music
- Flute Talk
- Flutist Quarterly
- Instrumentalist
- Pan
- Symphony
DLS 9/06
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This page was last updated Thursday, August 23, 2007.