A Guide To Finding Saxophone Music and Related Resources at the UNC Music Library

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Finding Music || Selected Books || Journals || Browsing

Finding Music

Online Catalog

The best way to search for specific scores or recordings online is through a KEYWORD search, using the most distinctive words in the author's name and work title.

If you select a material type (e.g., musical score or music recording) from the drop-down box under "Optional Search Limits," you can limit the search to that format only.

Catalog records for music usually include uniform titles for the works included. Because uniform titles are often constructed in the plural (e.g., the uniform title for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is "Symphonies, no. 9, op. 125, D minor"), we suggest you use a "?" to truncate certain terms. See the sample searches below.

To increase the accuracy of your search, include the opus or thematic number of the work. If you do not know the opus or thematic number, see the composer's works list accompanying his or her entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. (Ref. ML100.N48 2000, also available in an online version).

Card Catalog

If you do not find the music you want online, check the card catalog, as some of the Music Library's holdings are not yet cataloged online. To search for a specific piece, look under the composer's last name. Works are listed alphabetically behind the composer's name, according the uniform title.


If you do not find what you want in either the online or card catalog, use WorldCat under Music Resources on the UNC Music Library home page to search for a library that owns it and will interlibrary loan it to you. Ask a staff member if you need help.

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Selected Books

• Baron, John H. Chamber music: a research and information guide. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.
  Ref. ML128.C4 B37 1987

• Gee, Harry R. Saxophone soloists and their music, 1844-1985: an annotated bibliography. Cherry Hill, NJ: Roncorp, 1994.
  Ref. ML128.S247 G4 1986

• Horwood, Wally. Adolphe Sax 1814-1894: his life and legacy. Baldock, Herts: Egon Publishers, 1992.
  ML424.S27 H67 1992

• Ingham, Richard, ed. The Cambridge companion to the saxophone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  ML975.C36 1998

• Londeix, Jean-Marie. 150 years of music for saxophone: biographical index of music and educational literature for the saxophone: 1844-1994. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
  Ref. ML128.S247 L62 1994

• The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians. 2nd ed. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2000. Also available in an online version.
  Ref. ML100.N48 2000 (The works lists at the end of composer articles indicate thematic numbers as well as where in that composer's collected works a particular piece can be found.)

• Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor, and Robert Markel. Chamber music: an international guide to works and their instrumentation. New York: Facts on File, 1993.
  Ref. ML128.C4 R3 1993

• Rees-Davies, Jo. Clarinet & saxophone periodicals index. England: CASS?, 1986?
  Ref. ML128.C58 R44 1986

• Schleuter, Stanley L. Saxophone recital music: a discography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
  Ref. ML156.4.S3 S34 1993

• Woodwind anthology: a compendium of woodwind articles from The Instrumentalist. Volume 2: clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon. Northfield, IL: The Instrumentalist Publishing Compeny, 1992.
  MT339.5.W66 1992 v.2

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Journals

Recent issues of journals are kept in the main library stacks. Bound issues are shelved in the Reference room (titles A-O) and in the stacks (titles P-Z). The library currently receives the following journals pertaining to the saxophone:

• The Instrumentalist
• Saxophone Journal
• See the Jazz Materials Guide for additional journal titles.

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Browsing

Because books and scores are classified--that is, grouped with similar items on the shelf--browsing can be an effective method for finding what you want. The following Library of Congress classifications can serve as a guide for browsing in the stacks (this is not a complete list):

You can also browse the online and card catalogs by SUBJECT HEADING. A complete list of subject headings may be found in the book Music Subject Headings (Ref. ML111.H36 1998), which is bound in red and kept on the index tables in the Reference Room. Saxophone subject headings begin on page 446. The following are a few examples:

• Saxophone and piano music
• Saxophone instruction and study
• Saxophone music jazz
• Saxophone studies and exercises
• Saxophone with orchestra
• Saxophone ensembles
• Saxophone methods
• Saxophone and trumpet music
• Concertos (Saxophone with instrumental ensemble)

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