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General Classmarks for Music

Aesthetics  780.1 

Analysis—Form  781.5 

Ballet 

792.8

 

Bibliographies  016.78-016.7933 

Biographies (Composers, conductors, performers) 

780.92

 

Dance  793.3 

Dictionaries 

780.3-780.393

 

Education and Pedagogy 

780.7

 

Electronic music 789.98

 

Ethnomusicology  781.7 

Film Music  782.85 

History of music in different countries  780.93-780.99 

Instruments and instrumental music, general 

785

 

 Jazz 

785.8

 

Keyboard instruments, general  786 

Music and technology  789.98 

Music therapy 

781.1

 

Opera  782 

Popular Music 

785.9

 

Records and recording  789.9 

Rock 

785.9

 

Sacred music, general  783 

Secular vocal music, general 

784

 

Stringed instruments, general  787 

Theory  781 

Timpani, percussion, mechanical instruments 

789

 

Wind instruments  788 

Senate House Library

Research Librarian: Colin J.P. Homiski

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Tel. 020 7862 8457 

Senate House Library Research Guides

Music

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PRINTED COLLECTIONS

Collection overview 

A comprehensive collection of books on music, scores and periodicals, with material

from the 15th century to the present day. It covers primarily the music of Europe and the

Americas (North and South) from earliest times to the present with smaller sections on

the music of Africa and Asia, ethnomusicology, film music, popular music and various

forms of dance. The scores collection is especially strong in collected editions, histori-

cal sets and facsimile music manuscripts in addition to the substantial holdings of indi-

vidual loanable works. The collection as a whole is also noted for its strong foreign

language component, particularly French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Collection location 

The Music Library is located in two separate areas on the 4th floor South Block. Reg-

ular (octavo) books are in the Goldsmiths Reading Room. All scores and (folio) books

are in the Middlesex South Reading Room.

The collection is arranged into 5 sections each according to the Dewey Decimal clas-

sification system. Each section is assigned a different code on the online catalogue:

Books have the location codeSHL oldsmiths’ Reading Room ML

 

Folio books have the location code Middlesex South Folio Books ML fol.  

Scores have the location code Middlesex South ML M 

Miniature scores have the code Middlesex South Gallery MIN SCORES ML mM

Oversize/Extra Large scores have the code Middlesex South Extra Large Scores 

The Goldsmiths Reading Room arranges the octavo books with the Dewey sequence

starting on the left hand side of the room.

The Middlesex South Reading Room arranges the folio books, at the front of the Right

entrance of the Reading Room. After the folio books, the score sequence commences

on the left hand side and wraps around the reading room continuing into the Middle-

sex South Reading Room Gallery. The final sequence in the Gallery arranges the min-

iature scores.

Some items are held in the closed access stacks. These will display the location STACK

SERVICE or OFFSITE STORE. Click on the ‘REQUEST’ button from the Library catalogue

for staff to fetch these materials. Stack Service materials are ready within the hour,

the Offsite Store takes 48-72 hours. Current Music Periodicals can be found in Display Bays 37-39 of the Periodicals Read-

ing Room—4th floor.

Related collections 

• Special Collections – especially the Littleton Collection of early printed music and

treatises on music and works of Byrd and Tallis, the Sir George Elvey Collection, the

Tudor Church Music collection and the George Collection of piano music

• United States and Latin American area collections and Philosophy on the 6th floor and

Art and Film and Media Studies collections on the 5th floor

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS 

Electronic resources include subscriptions to digital encylopaedias, bibliographies, e-

books, e-journals and full-text databases, many of which can be accessed off-site by

Library members.

Databases

 

Resources of particular interest in this subject are can be retrieved from the Library’s

catalogue using the following KEYWORD shortcut: ‘MUSIC ERESOURCE’ 

Some of the key databases include: Academic Search Complete (full-text PDFs of ca 200 Music journals)

International Index to Music Periodicals

International Index to Performing Arts (full text from over 60 journals)

 JSTOR (full-text PDFs of over 900 music journals)

MyiLibrary (ca 1000 e-books)

Oxford Music Online

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music periodicals (1800-present)

To browse the Library’s A-Z list of electronic resources try:

http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/databases-and-eresources/

Web resources

 

Freely available digital e-books are continually being added to the OAPEN (Open Access

Publishing in European Networks) at www.oapen.org. Other electronic resources can be

searched via Delicious at www.delicious.com/colin71/ music.

SOUND RECORDINGS

The Library has over 12,000 LP sound recordings however very few are on the

online catalogue. If you have a specific request or for more information please

contact the Music Librarian.

OTHER LIBRARIES 

For more information about Music holdings in other academic libraries in the London

area, please consult the Cecilia catalogue which maps music resources in the UK and

Ireland – www.cecilia-uk.org/html. For elsewhere in the UK, consult the Consortium of

University and Research Libraries catalogue: www.copac.ac.uk 

CONTACT DETAILS 

For further help, please contact the Research librarian, Colin Homiski, tel: 020

7862 8457, email: colin.homiski@london.ac.uk, or try his office in 510.