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Music, Worship & Performing Arts: Composition and Music Theory: Finding Books

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Subject Headings

Subject headings, as defined by Library of Congress, are a way to link books together that are in a similar subject fields.  Copy and Paste them into the Search Box

  • Composition (Music)
  • Composition (Music) -- History
  • Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
  • Music theory -- Composition 
  • Music and Language (or and literature)

Subject Headings for the Study of Hymns:  Copy and Paste them into the Search Box

hymns history and criticism

hymns Biography

hymns indexes

hymns devotional use

BV5-530  Worship (Public and private)

M - Music  (scores)
ML - Literature on music  (for books on composers all are in the main library collection - many are in the ML 410 followed by the initial of their last name) 
MT - Musical instruction and study  (all are in the Main Library Collection as well as ERC Music)