Catalog

There are three major indexes to the catalog: name, title, and subject. These indexes can be set to limit a search to materials only in the Italian language and/or to a specific material type (e.g., books, printed music, recordings, or videos). Do not limit a search by language if it is purely instrumental music. A subject search is used to find music in a particular form, for certain voices and instruments, or about a musician or topic. Here are a few examples:

Printed Music

Cantatas
Choruses, Sacred
Choruses, Secular
Folk songs, Italian
Operas
Oratorios
Songs
Vocal duets
search also on Vocal trios, quartets, etc.

Recordings

Cantatas
Choruses, Sacred
Choruses, Secular
Folk songs, Italian
Operas
Oratorios
Popular Music
Songs
Vocal duets
search also on Vocal trios, quartets, etc.

Books

Claudio Monteverdi
Music
Opera
Giacomo Puccini
Gioacchino Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi
Antonio Vivaldi

Videorecordings

Operas

Searches for the books, printed music, recordings, and videos of works by musicians are performed with the name index and can be limited by medium and language in the same way as the subject search. When entering the name for a search, remember to enter the surname first followed by the first name. Here are some examples:

Printed Music

Vincenzo Bellini
Luciano Berio
Luigi Dallapiccola
Gaetano Donizetti
Andrea Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli
Carlo Gesualdo
Orlando di Lasso
Luca Marenzio
Claudio Monteverdi
Luigi Nono
Giacomo Puccini
Gioacchino Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi
Antonio Vivaldi

Recordings

Vincenzo Bellini
Luciano Berio
Luigi Dallapiccola
Gaetano Donizetti
Andrea Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli
Carlo Gesualdo
Orlando di Lasso
Luca Marenzio
Claudio Monteverdi
Luigi Nono
Giacomo Puccini
Gioacchino Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi
Antonio Vivaldi

Videorecordings

Vincenzo Bellini
Gaetano Donizetti
Claudio Monteverdi
Giacomo Puccini
Gioacchino Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi
Antonio Vivaldi


Reference Books

The following books are in the Music Library.

Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti.
Alberto Basso, ed. Torino : UTET, c1983-c1984. 4 v. Ref. ML100 .D63 1983 Torino : UTET, c1985-c1988. 9 v. Ref. ML105 .D65 1985
 
Dizionario Ricordi della musica e dei musicisti.
Claudio Sartori; Fausto Broussard et. al, ed. Milano: Ricordi,1959. Ref ML100 D65
 
La Musica.
Guido M. Gatti and Alberto Basso, eds. Torino: Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, 1966-1971. 6v. ML100.M93
 
La musica italiana nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento.
Flavio Testi. Milano: Bramante, 1969. 2 v. (Storia della musica italiana de Sant'Ambrogio a noi) ML290.2.T48
 
La musica italiana nel Seicento.
Flavio Testi. Milano: Bramante, 1970-1972 v. (Storia della musica italiana da Sant'Ambrogio a noi) ML290.2.T5


Internet Resources

Search Engines

Virgilio. Musica.
 
Yahoo! Italia: Divertimento e spettacolo: Musica.

Music Web Pages

La Homepage della musica in Italia

Karadar Classical Music
Includes a dictionary to musical terms in Italian, biographies of composers, texts of librettos and songs, lists of musical works, a photographic gallery of musicians, MP3 and MIDI files.

Giuseppe Verdi

Fondazione Verdi Festival.
 

Related Pages

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