Many of our print books on Anglican church music are around ML31## in our main collection (e.g. ML 3131 or ML 3166).

Sacred vocal music can be found in the section: M1999-2199 (M comes before ML).

Find more details about the Library of Congress classifications for music books here.

Many of our books on English Cathedrals are around NA 5461 (on the third floor).

Here's a link to a list of some of the books in that section.

M - Music, General including scores
ML - Literature about music
MT - Music instruction and study

The M section is located on the second floor of the library.

A complete outline of the M section.

How to read Library of Congress call numbers.

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TigerSearch searches our library’s holdings along with the contents of most of our databases. Some databases are not accessible to TigerSearch, so if you want to search those databases, you need to go to them directly. (See a list of databases not included in TigerSearch here.)

The filters give you lots of ways to target your results, by language, by geographic area, by type of material. Buttons also allow you to limit your search to peer reviewed articles or items that have full text available online.

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Use TigerSearch to:

• Use TigerSearch to identify and locate books, video, audio and other material in our library.
• Figure out your search terms. For example, Folk Music and Appalachia. 
• When you find your book, look around at the books around it. You may end up finding other great resources.

Use WorldCat to:

• Identify materials held by other libraries around the world.
• If Sewanee doesn't own it, then you can request it through interlibrary loan. See the box below. 

Use Google Books to:

• Search the full-text of some books. 
• Find other sources that will be useful to your search.