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UCSC users have access to roughly 20,000 compact discs, cassettes, and LP recordings, all of which are listed in the CRUZCAT catalog.  In addition, users have access to roughly 68,000 recordings through online audio databases, most of which are also listed in CRUZCAT.  However, roughly 16,000 are not, and must be searched in the separate Music Online database.

To search for recordings in CRUZCAT, start with a keyword search, using several key terms such as the name of the composer or performer, or one or more words from the title of the piece.

Examples:  
mozart piano concerto 5
coltrane love supreme
adams death klinghoffer

Limiting your search results to a particular medium in CRUZCAT is complicated.

To the right of the search box, you can change the default "view entire collection" to "online resources" for online audio recordings contained in CRUZCAT or to "films and videos" to see DVDs, video tapes, and laser discs.

Above the search box, you can click on "Modify Search."
At bottom, for DVD, you may change "Any" to "DVD" to limit your search results to DVDs only.

Also under "Modify Search" you may choose one of the options under "Material Type."

• format "audio music" llimits your search results to recordings EXCEPT CDS (so it includes online recordings as well as LPS and cassettes)
   
• format "music CD" limits your search results to compact discs.

Uniform Title searching

For classical compositions, a keyword search may not display all instances of the composition you want.  For instance, the keyword search "mozart piano concerto 5" matches a composition that has been assigned a standard or "uniform" title of "Concertos, piano, orchestra K. 175, D major. 198" (which omits the number of the concerto, 5).  Thus to find additional instances of this work, one should do another keyword search that includes one or more distinctive elements of the uniform title, for instance in this case "K 175". Similarly, the keyword search "Rite of Spring" will not be as comprehensive a search as a search using the uniform title (the original title), which is "Vesna sviashchennaia." 

Truncation and "wildcards"

The example above suggests another useful technique in music searching. Use an asterisk at the right end of a word to capture both the singular and plural form of the term (concerto and concertos, the latter being used in the uniform title).  Similarly a search for "symphon*" will retrieve symphonic, symphony, symphonies, and symphonien.

Music Online

As noted above, roughly 16,000 recordings in Music Online are not yet in the UCSC CRUZCAT catalog.  These include classical, folk, and contemporary world music recordings, most notably the Smithsonian Global Sound archive of ethnomusicological recordings. These recordings must be searched at the Music Online site, following the help screens provided there.

Finding particular pieces or songs

While the titles of individual selections contained on a recording are generally detailed in the CRUZCAT catalog, this is not always the case.  For example, when looking for a recording of a particular Schumann song, the library does own recordings that contain a large selection of songs (by Schumann alone or by various composers) that are not individually included in the catalog record.  Similarly, catalog listings for recordings of popular or folk music may or may not list every song on the recording.  For such searches, one must broaden the search to catch likely recordings and then examine them physically for their contents.  Examples of broader searches are "schumann songs" or simply the name an artist's name ("coltrane" or "beatles").

Note that the online music databases all provide complete track indexing at their sites for each recording.

Searching for ethnomusicology recordings

Recordings in Music Online (which includes the essential Smithsonian Global Sound collection, as well as American Song and Contemporary World Music) are not currently listed in CRUZCAT and must be searched at Music Online.

For recordings listed in CRUZCAT, keyword searches should include such elements as place name, ethnic name, and terms such as "folk music," "folk songs" or other subject headings identified as you examine initial results of your searches.

The Library currently lists about 17,000 music scores (some with parts), all of which are listed in the CRUZCAT catalog (the actual number is higher, as many of these are multi-volume sets). A growing collection of public-domain as well as some copyrighted material is available at IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project), which at the end of 2010 lists 79,000 scores for download and online viewing.

Scores with call numbers starting with M2 or M3 are designated non-circulating by wish of the Music Department.  Circulating copies of many of the works contained in these large sets (national editions or collected works of given composers) are also in the collection.  ISLMP is also likely to have copies for download or online viewing.

Search by keyword

Use the same techniques of keyword searching outlined above for searching recordings.  Bear in mind that the uniform title for a classical work may require a second search to find all scores for a particular piece (see above).

Limit by format

The "Material Type" limit for "music scores" will limit your search results to scores and parts.

Scores on CD-ROM

The Library owns thousands of printable scores on CD-ROM as well, all findable under the keyword search "cd sheet music."  

Finding particular pieces or songs

Individual compositions, songs, or other types of pieces in score form are rarely listed in detail in the CRUZCAT catalog, so it is even more important than in the case of recordings to broaden one's keyword search to find a collection that will contain the work you wish.  Try artist or composer name combined with title, or genre (for instance "songs," "concertos," or the broadest term "works" for the collected works of a composer). Examples:

mozart piano sonatas (collections that will include the concerto you want)

sondheim passion (for a particular song in the musical "Passion")
brahms works (for a set of his collected works)

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