To locate books about a specific person or topic, use the Subject Search in the OPAL Library Catalog. Each book has been tagged with specific subject headings that describe its content.
There are a variety of subject headings that pertain to music theatre.
To find books about a composer's songs, use the composer's name followed by "songs."
Sources such as encyclopedias and select bibliographies/guides will be located in the reference collection.
Call Number |
Genre |
ML 48-50 | Translations of opera texts & librettos |
ML 54.6 | Translations of vocal texts |
ML 102.M88 | Dictionaries/Encyclopedias |
ML 128 M78 | Bibliographies/Literature guides |
ML 820-950 | Singing and vocal techniques |
ML 1711, ML 2054 | General history of the musical |
MT 95 | Plots |
MT 955 | Production |
Books and printed music are arranged according to the Library of Congress' Classification System. The library has circulating and non-circulating (reference) collections. Each collection is divided in to three sections.
The Jones Music Library has distinct collections for music education and music therapy resources. A complete description of the library's collections may be found here.