Advanced Search recommended
The following illustrations show the "Advanced Search" in the library catalog. (On the Library's homepage, click "Catalog" then "Advanced Search" beside the search box.) Here, you can specify whether you're looking for a title, subject, etc.
Popular music
Specific songs can be searched by title. Or try using the strategy described for "Short works" under Classical Music.
Songwriters and performers can be searched as authors.
Specific genres
There are subject terms for the following:
Popular music
Popular songs
World music
World beat (Music)
Rock music
Country music
Bluegrass music
Blues (Music)
Rhythm and blues music
Big band music
Cajun music
Calypso (Music)
Celtic music
Contemporary Christian music
Disco music
Funk (Music)
Gospel music
Industrial music
Jingles (Advertising songs)
Klezmer music
Rap (Music)
Reggae (Music)
Salsa (Music)
Soul music
Swing (Music)
Western swing (Music)
"rock music" in Subject
(Using quotation marks will search this subject term together as a phrase.)
Specific time periods
To the subject terms above, you can add the decade:
Popular music
Popular music – 1931-1940
Popular music – 1941-1950
country music 1981-1990 in Subject
Specific places
Terms for the genres listed above can also be combined with a place name:
Bluegrass -- Kentucky
Rock music -- England -- Liverpool
bluegrass kentucky in Subject
Related terms
Motion picture music
Television music
Radio music
See also topical music.
Jazz and Blues
Specific works can be searched by title. Or try using the strategy described for "Short works" under Classical Music.
Composers and performers can be searched as authors.
Jazz for specific instruments
Try subject terms like these:
Trumpet music (Jazz)
Percussion music (Jazz)
Piano with jazz ensemble
Suites (Jazz ensemble)
Jazz vocals
Piano – Methods (Jazz)
Piano – Studies and exercises (Jazz)
Jazz -- Improvisation
trumpet music jazz in Subject
Jazz of a specific time period
Enter the subject term “Jazz”, then the decade:
jazz 1961 1970 in Subject
Jazz in a specific place
Use subject terms like these:
Jazz -- Louisana -- New Orleans
Jazz -- Illinois -- Chicago
Jazz-- France
jazz chicago in Subject
Specific jazz genres
There are also subject terms for:
Big band music
Boogie woogie (Music)
Bop (Music)
Cool jazz
Dixieland music
Free jazz
Jazz-rock (Music)
Latin jazz
Third stream (Music)
Swing (Music)
Western swing (Music)
Blues
Subject terms for blues work similarly to those for jazz. You can search blues music for a specific instrument, time, or place:
Blues (Music)
Harmonica music (Blues)
Electric guitar music (Blues)
Blues (Music) -- 1931-1940
Blues (Music) -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
There are subject terms for these blues genres:
Blues-rock music
Boogie woogie (Music)
Rhythm and blues music
