Resources for Voice Students

Quick links to useful ONLINE resources!

• Need IPA?  IPA Source!

• Need scores?
  • Mozart complete works online, courtesy of the Internationale Stiftung Mozart.

• Need recordings (streaming audio)?
  • Classical Music Library
  • Database of Recorded American Music.  Think Jan DeGaetani, composers John Cage, John Harbison and others. 
  • Naxos Music Library Jazz
  • Naxos Music Library
  • Smithsonian Global Sound

• Need video (streaming video)?
  • Classical Performances in Video
  • Medici.TV
  • MetOpera on Demand
  • Naxos Video Library

• Need information about song in the context of American history?
  • American Song

• Need a work from an anthology or the collected works?
  • Index to Printed Music can help. Tips forthcoming.

Sometimes you just want to browse the stacks. That's great! It's one way of discovering what the library has -- just remember, if an item is checked out, you won't see it on the shelf.

The Allen Music Library uses the Library of Congress Classification Scheme for its books, scores, and some of its periodicals. Call numbers for those items begin with "M" for Music. 

• M = printed Music
• ML = Music Literature (books about music)
• MT = Music Teaching (books about teaching music, including etudes and more)

Call number areas of particular interest to singers:

• M1495-M2199 = vocal music
• M1503 = piano-vocal scores for operas
• M1619 = secular solo song anthologies/collections 
• M1620 = secular solo song collections by composer (generally)
• M1621 = secular song sets or individual songs
• ML54.6 = Vocal texts, often in translation
• ML410 = composer biographies
• MT820 - MT823+ = singing instruction manuals