Editions: When you are looking for a musical score in the online catalog, you may get many search results for a single piece. This is because the music library holds several different editions of that piece.
An edition is a music score created when an editor makes changes (musical or textual) to a piece that otherwise only exists in manuscript form.
A manuscript is a source that is written by hand. An autograph manuscript is a manuscript written at least in part in the composer's hand (rather than by a copyist or printed). Editions are made for a variety of reasons: wider accessibility and/or legibility, to add annotation/discussion, or to facilitate performance.
There are three major categories of editions:
Learn more about manuscripts, editions, and how to find them by visiting the Editions LibGuide!
A Thematic Catalog is a list of a particular set of musical works and contains musical incipits for those works to help with identification. An incipit is the opening set of notes of a work.
A Composer Thematic Catalog is a thematic catalog dedicated to the works of one composer.
Finding Composer Thematic Catalogs
Not all composers will have a thematic catalog. But if they do, it will be shelved in the ML134 section of the Library, on the 3rd floor of Moody Library. How do you find it?
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