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.

The names of countries, regions, or peoples can be combined with the word “music” as search terms.  Use subject terms like these:

Music – India

Music – Latin America

Jews – Music

         music india    in   Subject

The subject term “Folk music” can also be combined with the names of countries or regions:

         folk music hungary   in   Subject

The subject term “Folk songs” can be combined with the names of countries, regions, peoples, nationalities, and languages. Use subject terms like these:

Folk songs, American

Folk songs, Jewish

Folk songs, Bantu

         folk songs french   in   Subject

To get more results:

When researching a country, try broadening your search to its region (for example, music of Brazil may be included on a CD album of Latin American music).

 When researching a region, also search individual countries in the region.

 See also topical music.

Instruments

Names of specific instruments can be searched as a keyword search. This will retrieve any mention of the instrument as accompaniment in a recording’s credits, as well as subject headings for the instrument when it is playing a prominent role.

         erhu   in   Any Field

Or, search broader categories of instruments, combined with the name of a country or region:

         stringed instruments china   in   Subject

You can also use Hornbostel/Sachs terms (aerophone, chordophone, membranophone, idiophone). Search these as keywords:

         chordophone*   in   Any Field

 (The asterisk will retrieve both "chordophone" and "chordophones.")

Use the following subject terms, combined with the name of a specific country if desired:

Ethnomusicology

Sound recordings in ethnomusicology

World music

Folk music

Folk songs