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MUSC 289: World Musics

Browsing by Call numbers

Browsing by Call Numbers

Browsing call numbers on shelves or online is another strategy for locating books on a topic that can lead to serendipitous discovery.  

Useful call numbers for browsing world musics topics or the discipline of ethnomusicology:

   ML460-1380 (instruments & instrumental music – by region or country)
   ML3470-3541 (Popular music – by region or country, special kinds and styles)
   ML3545-3776 (National music: blues, folk, jazz, national, ethnic, etc.) 
   ML3797-3799 (Ethnomusicology)

Finding Books

Search Omni, the catalogue of Queen's University Library, by Any field (using Boolean keywords), Author/Creator, Title, Subject, or Call Number to find books, scores and other material formats in our collection. 

Use Boolean search operators AND, OR, NOT to combine terms, do phrase searching, or truncate terms.

Narrow or refine search by adding other terms:  
tango AND politcs AND argentina
Broaden search using the * symbol to truncate for variable word endings 
cultur* AND ethnocentri* [for ethnocentric or ethnocentrism]
Broaden results using synonyms in brackets separated by OR
Eroica AND (disc OR sound OR video*) To retrieve these specific formats
Use quotes around a phrase or concept:  
"cultural relativism" (use for concept of two or more words)
Limit large result sets by library location or by using NOT:  
        musical NOT opera 
 

 

World Musics book suggestions