Chamber Music:
a guide to browsing the stacks in Music & Media

Most scores and books are in the stacks of Music & Media. Some materials are in the ASRS (request these materials from the catalog) and scores with parts are kept behind the desk (normal circulation policies apply).

Scores/Sound Recordings

Trios
Frequently requested combinations (ranges)
Specific ensembles

Books on chamber music

Bibliographies
History and criticism

Scores/Sound Recordings

Trios

M 300 - 304	Organ and two other instruments
M 310 - 314	Piano and two stringed instruments
M 315 - 319	Piano and two wind instruments
M 320 - 324	Piano, one stringed, and one wind instrument
M 325 - 329	Piano and two plucked (e.g. guitar) instruments
M 330 - 334	Piano, one stringed, and one plucked instrument
M 335 - 339	Piano, one wind, and one plucked instrument
M 340 - 344	Piano and other combinations
M 349 - 353	String trios
M 355 - 359	Wind trios
M 360 - 364	Stringed and wind instruments
M 365 - 369	Plucked instruments
M 370 - 374	Stringed and plucked instruments
M 375 - 379	Wind and plucked instruments
M 380 - 384	Stringed, wind, and plucked instruments
M 385	Other combinations of instruments (including percussion)
M 386	Unspecified instruments or combinations of specified and unspecified instruments

Quartets, quintets, sextets, septets, octets, and nonets follow similar patterns (in the M 400s, 500s, 600s, 700s, 800s, and 900s, respectively).

Frequently requested combinations (ranges of call numbers)

M 416 - 449	Piano quartets (winds and/or strings)
M 450 - 459	String quartets
M 455 - 457	Wind quartets
M 510 - 554	Piano quintets (winds and/or strings)
M 555 - 559	Wind quintets

Specific ensembles

M 412	Piano quartets (piano, violin, viola, cello)
M 452	String quartets (two violins, viola, cello)
M 457.2	Woodwind quartets
M 457.4	Brass quartets
M 512.2	Piano quintets (piano, two violins, viola, cello)
M 557.2	Woodwind quintets
M 557.4	Brass quintets

Books on Chamber Music

Bibliographies

Hinson, Maurice. The piano in chamber ensemble: an annotated bibliography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Secrist-Schmedes, Barbara. Wind chamber music: winds with piano and woodwind quintets: an annotated guide. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

Baron, John H. Chamber music: a research and information guide. New York: Garland Publications, 1987.

History and criticism

Hefling, Stephen E., ed. Nineteenth-century chamber music. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Berger, Melvin. Guide to chamber music. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985.

Ewen, David. Solo instrumental and chamber music: its story told through the lives and works of its foremost composers. New York: F. Watts, 1974.

Secular vocal music

ML 1600	General works
ML 1602 - 1651	Vocal music (arranged by period, then by region/country)
ML 1700 - 1751	Forms and types (general works, by period, then by region/country)
ML 2400 - 2551	Cantatas and songs: works about both solo and part songs (arranged by period, then region/country)
ML 2600 - 2670	Part songs
ML 2800 - 2854	Solo songs
ML 2880 - 2881	Christmas songs

Sacred vocal music

ML 128 .S2	Sacred vocal music bibliographies
ML 2900	General works
ML 2902 - 2951	By period, then by region/country
ML 3201 - 327	Forms and types (oratorio, cantata, chorale)

Adapted from a handout created by Alisa Rata, William & Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.

If you have questions or need help locating any materials, please contact Lindsay Hansen, Music & Media Librarian.

Chamber Music: a guide to browsing the stacks in Music & Media