Instrument and Voice Guides

• M6-M14: Organ alone
  • M6: Collections, mixed (original works and arrangements; more than one composer)
  • M7: General collections (one composer)
  • M8: Sonatas
  • M8.5: Symphonies
  • M9: Suites, variations, and cyclical works
  • M10: Fugues (with or without preludes)
  • M11: Pieces
  • M11.2: Pedal pieces
  • M12: Arrangements: collections
  • M13: Arrangements: separate works
  • M14: Books (accompaniments to collections of psalms and hymns)
  • M14.3-M14.5: Liturgical music (special seasons and occasions)
  • M14.8: Electronic organ music
• M180-M186: Duets
  • M180-M181: One or more organs, two or more players
  • M182-M186: Organ and one other instrument
• M300-M304: Trios, organ and two other instruments
• M400-M404: Quartets, organ and three other instruments

Quartets, quintets, sextets, septets, octets, and nonets follow similar patterns (in the M400s, 500s, 600s, 700s, 800s, and 900s, respectively).
 

Concertos and similar pieces:

• M1005: Organ with orchestra - full scores
• M1005.5: Cadenzas for works for organ with orchestra
• M1006: Organ with orchestra - piano reductions
• M1108: Organ with string orchestra - full scores
• M1108.5: Cadenzas for works for organ with string orchestra
• M1109: Organ with string orchestra - piano reductions
   

Studies and methods:

• MT180: General works
• MT182: Systems and methods; studies and exercises
• MT185: General works: special techniques
• MT187: Special techniques: pedal
• MT189: Special techniques: registration
• MT190: Special techniques: accompaniment of liturgical music
• MT193: Teaching pieces; instructive editions
• MT198: Self-instructors

Use this list of subjects to get started searching in the Libraries catalog:

Solo organ music: 

• sonatas (organ)
• suites (organ)
• variations (organ)
• [fill in this blank with the genre of composition you're looking for] (organ)
• organ music

Duets:

• organs (2)
• organ music (4 hands)

Organ with other instruments:

• organ with orchestra
• [instrument(s)] and organ music
  • trumpet and organ music
  • violin and organ music
  • etc.
• trios [use this subject heading to search for various combinations of instruments with organ]
  • trios (organ, trumpet, trombone)
  • trios (organ, violin, viola)
  • etc.
• quartets (organ, [various instruments]) [this subject heading will lead you to combinations of organ and various instruments]
  • quartets (organ, bassoons)
  • quartets (organ, trumpets)
  • etc.
  • Follow this same pattern for quintets, sextets, septets, octets, and nonets

Want an overview of organ-related publications and lists of repertoire? 

Browse these call number ranges in the Music Library's Reference section (located on the low shelving in the front of the Library, across from the circulation desk) and General collections. If you need help locating any of these materials, just ask at the circulation desk!

• ML128 .O6: Organ bibliographies
• ML550: General works
• ML552-M597: Construction: general works; by time period; by region or country; individual instruments; special parts
• ML600-ML649: Music and playing: general works; by time period; by region or country; forms and types of music

Also, make sure to check out these specific titles:
 

• Arnold, Corliss Richard. Organ Literature: A Comprehensive Survey. 3rd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995. (NOTE: The first and second editions of this title are available in the general collection for circulation!)
• Reference, ML600 .A76 1995 
• Hettinger, Sharon L. American Organ Music of the Twentieth Century: An Annotated Bibliography of Composers. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1997.
• General Collection, ML106.U3 H47 1997  
   
• Johnson, Calvert, Wayne Leupold, Quentin Faulkner, and Kimberly Marshall. Historical Organ Techniques and Repertoire: An Historical Survey of Organ Performance Practices and Repertoire. Boston: Wayne Leupold Editions, 1994.
• General Collection, Folio MT195 .H57 1994 
   
• Kratzenstein, Marilou. Survey of Organ Literature and Editions. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1980.
• Reference, ML600 .K73 1980
   
• Lovelace, Austin C. The Organist and Hymn Playing. New York: Abingdon Press, 1962.
  Full text available online through the University Libraries subscription to HathiTrust (click the Hathitrust link at the top of the catalog record!)
    
• Lukas, Viktor. A Guide to Organ Music. Translated by Anne Wyburd from the fifth edition; with addenda by Lee Garrett; Reinhard G. Pauly, general editor. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1989. 
• General Collection, MT140 .L8413 1989  
   
• Ochse, Orpha Caroline. Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
• General Collection, ML624 .O25 1994 
   
• Sonnaillon, Bernard. King of Instruments: A History of the Organ. Translated by Stewart Spencer. New York: Rizzoli, 1985.
• General Collection, Quarto ML550 .S713 1985 
   
• Stauffer, George, and Ernest May, eds. J.S. Bach as Organist: His Instruments, Music, and Performance Practices. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. 
• General Collection, ML410.B1 J2 1986  
   
• Williams, Peter, and Barbara Owen. The New Grove Organ. Grove Musical Instrument Series. London: Macmillan, 1988.
• General Collection, ML550 .W37x 1988 

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Interested in browsing organ-specific journals? Check out these periodicals (current periodicals are just past the circulation desk in the rack on the wall, and older issues of print periodicals are located to your right when you first enter the Music Library):

• The American Organist
  • Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals section
  • Available online through Music Periodicals Database
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• Choir & Organ
  • Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals​​ section
  • Available online through Academic Search Premier

• The Hymn
  • Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals​​ section
  • Available online through Music Periodicals Database
     
• The Organ
  • ​Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals​​ section
  • Available online through Music Periodicals Database
     
• L'Organo
  • ​Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals​​ section

• L'Orgue
  • ​Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals​​ section

• The Organ Handbook: Conference Proceedings of the Organist Historical Society
  • ​Available in print at the Music Library, off-site storage (sign it and click "Get It" to request this item from storage)
     
• The Organ Yearbook
  • ​Available in print at the Music Library, off-site storage (sign it and click "Get It" to request this item from storage)
     
• Organists' Review
  • Available in print at the Music Library, Periodicals​​ section