Skip to Main Content

Music Research Guide: Violoncello

A guide to the music resources at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln

Repertoire lists for the violoncello

 

The index of cello music : including the index of baroque trio sonatas / compiled and edited by Wayne Wilkins.

Magnolia, Ark. : Music Register, 1979

MUSIC Ref ML128.V5 W5

 

The solo cello : a bibliography of the unaccompanied violoncello literature / Dimitry Markevitch

Berkeley, Calif. : Fallen Leaf Press, 1989

MUSIC Ref ML128.V5 M28 1989

 

Bibliography of cello ensemble music / by Claude Kenneson

Detroit : Information Coordinators, 1974

MUSIC Ref ML128.V5 K45

 

String music in print / by Margaret K. Farish

New York : R. R. Bowker Co., 1965, and supplements to 1984

MUSIC Ref ML128.S7 F4

 

Periodicals for the violoncello

American string teacher, v. 8 (1958)-   ML27.U5A8356

The Strad, 1991- ML749.5 S773x

Some Library of Congress call numbers for the violoncello

M - Scores

M50-54--Solo violoncello music

M229-236--Music for violoncello and piano

M1016-1017, M1116-1117--Violoncello with orchestra and string orchestra (includes full scores and solos with piano arrangements)

ML - Music Literature

ML128.V5--Violoncello music: Bibliography

ML910-915--Books about the violoncello

MT - Instruction and Study

MT300-318--Methods, etudes, orchestra studies, etc.

Some Library of Congress subject headings for music for violoncello

Violoncello music

Violoncello and piano music

Suites (Violoncello)

Concertos (Violoncello)

Concertos (Violoncello with string orchestra)

Violoncello with orchestra

...and there are lots more.  Do a subject search for "violoncello" and see the 105 different subject headings that begin with "violoncello."

Library of Congress subject headings about the violoncello

Violoncello music--Bibliography

Violoncello--History

Violoncello--Instruction and study

Violoncellists

   ... and lots more.  Search "violoncello" in the library catalog and find more than 50 books, more than 1600 recordings and more than 2400 scores.     

Web Resources for the violoncello

Subject Guide: Music

Profile Photo
Anita Breckbill
Subjects: Dance, Music
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Hours of Operation | Parking Maps | Employment | Support the Libraries
318 Love Library | 13th & R | Lincoln, NE | (402) 472-9568
 @UNLLibraries |  @unl_libraries