Background Information
This guide is intended to assist the vocalist in locating print copies of specific songs as well as translations of songs.
When searching for a recording of a song, first try searching by title. If that search is not successful, try a word search.
Searching for scores of songs is not as simple. Art songs and popular songs in multi-composer collections have been analyzed
in the BGSU Libraries Catalog. Searching for songs in these collections is similar to searching for recordings. Songs in collections
by a single composer, as well as collections of national and folk musics, have not been analyzed in the BGSU Libraries Catalog,
which means that you cannot search for these songs by individual title.
To identify song titles in collections, start with the song indices listed below. When a collection containing the desired
song is identified, search the BGSU Libraries Catalog by the collection title to determine if BGSU owns the collection. Don't despair if we do not! Return to the song indices
and search further, or try your search in the OhioLINK Statewide Catalog to see if one of the libraries in the OhioLINK system owns the collection.
Resources listed below are located in the MUSIC REFERENCE area of the Music Library unless otherwise noted.
Finding Songs in a Collection - Song Indexes & Ccomposers' Thematic Catalogs
Song Indices
ML 128 .P63 G65 1995
SongCite: An index to popular songs, William D. Goodfellow.
ML 128 .S3 F47 1995
Song finder: a title index to 32,000 popular songs in collections, 1854-1992. Gary Lynn Ferguson, compiler.
ML 128.S3 L45
Index to song books; a title index to over 11,000 copies of almost 6,800 songs in 111 song books published between 1933 and
1962, 1964. Robert Leigh.
ML 128.S3 S31 1996
Popular Song Index, 1926. Minnie Earl Sears.
ML 128.S3 D37
Songs in Collections: An index, 1966. Desiree de Charms & Paul F. Breed.
ML 113 .H52v.1&2
Historical Sets, Collected Editions and Monuments of Music, 1980. Anna Harriet Heyer.
Thematic Catalogs
Can be used to locate vocal music by a specific composer. The following is a list of some of the thematic catalogs found in
the Music Library. Others are located in the Music Ref ML 134 call number area and are shelved alphabetically by composer.
ML 134 .B1 S3 1990
J.S. Bach
ML 134 .B4 K5
Beethoven Verzeichnis
ML 134 .B5 A2
Hector Berlioz
ML 134 .B8 A29
Brahms Verzeichnis
ML 134.H16 A19 Bd.1-4
Handel-Handbuch
ML 134 .H272 H6 v.1-3
Haydn Verzeichnis
ML 134.M9 K55 1964
W.A. Mozart
ML 134.S38 1951a
Franz Schubert
ML 134 .S94 M8 Bd. 1-3
Strauss Verzeichnis
ML 134 .W1 D285 1986
Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis
Song Translations
ML 56.4 .F513
Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder
ML 54.6 .P75 P5
Penguin Book of Lieder, 1964. Siebert Salomon Prawer.
ML 54.6 .M5 R5 1973
Ring of Words; anthology of song texts, 1963. Philip L. Miller.
ML 54.6 .S4 R413 1989
The Singer's Schumann, 1989. Thilo Reinhard, ed.
ML 54.6 .R18 S52 1989
The Singer's Rachmaninoff, 1989. Natalia Challis, ed.
ML 54.6 .C7 W7 (2 pts)
Word by word translations of songs and arias, 1966. Berton Coffin.Part one includes German translations; part two includes Italian translations(located in Music Listening
Center).
ML 54.6 .S39 W53 1988
Schubert: The complete song texts: texts of the lieder and Italian songs.
ML 54.6 .S39 W53 1988
Lieder line by line and word for word, 1979. Lois Phillips.
Librettos
Opera and musical theater librettos can be found under the call numbers ML49 or ML50. Other sources which often contain translations
of songs are compact disc contents notes and record jackets.
Vocal Scores
Call number ranges for browsing purposes. These are located in the open stacks area of the Music Library.
M2
Collected anthologies
M3
Collected works of individual composers
M1500
Vocal scores of operas and musicals(full score)- alphabetical by composer
M1503
Vocal scores of operas and musicals with piano accompaniment - alphabetical by composer
M1619
Collections of songs by two or more composers
M1619.5
Collections of songs with special poets
M1620
Collected songs of one composer(arranged alphabetically by composer)
M1621
Separate songs (arranged alphabetically by composer)
M1621.4
Song cycles (arranged alphabetically by composer)
M1629
National song collections
M1630.18
Popular song collections
M2027
Sacred solo arias
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