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Search music related materials statewide
Find audio recordings, scores, books, and other music-related items, in both digital and print formats from music collections across the IU system, including the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Archives of Traditional Music, the South Bend Schurz Library, and others.
Search Tips
- Truncation and wildcards are supported.
- Use * for any number of characters (librar* finds library, libraries, and librarian).
- Use ? for a single character (wom?n finds woman and women).
- For best results, truncate at the root of a word. Because word-stemming is applied automatically, librar* finds far more than libraries*.
- Use quotation marks to search as an exact phrase. Wildcards do not work inside quotation marks.
- Use capitalized OR, AND, and NOT to create complex boolean logic.
- Word-stemming is automatic on ordinary searches, so running also finds run.
- Avoid typing a question mark as punctuation — it is treated as a wildcard.
- Access more help at the KB.
To start your music search, you can search for a term in
- All Fields
- Author
- Title
- Subject
All fields will give the broadest results. If you’re searching for something specific, you can click the drop down and select Author, Title, or Subject so the results return your search term in the field you chose.
Music search allows you to refine your initial search in different ways than regular IUCAT searches. You can refine by music specific terms such as:
- Format (recordings, scores, books, etc)
- Instrument (Piano, Voice—tenor, larger ensemble— full orchestra, etc)
- Score Type (Miniature, Piano accompaniment, vocal, etc)