Instrument and Voice Guides

• M95-M99: Tuba alone
  • M95: Collections (more than one composer)
  • M96: Original works - collections (one composer)
  • M97: Original works - separate works
  • M98: Arrangements - collections (one composer)
  • M99: Arrangements - separate works
• M264-M265: Tuba with piano accompaniment
  • M264: Collections
  • M265: Separate works
• M288-M289: Duets for two wind instruments (of all kinds)
  • M288: Collections
  • M289: Separate works
• M290-M291: Duets - one stringed and one wind instrument
• M296-M297: Duets - one wind and one plucked instrument
• M315-M319: Piano and two wind instruments
• M320-M324: Piano, one string, and one wind instrument
• M335-M339: Piano, one wind, and one plucked instrument
• M355-M359: Three wind instruments
• M360-M364: Three stringed and wind instruments
• M375-M379: Three wind and plucked instruments
• M380-M384: Three stringed, wind, and plucked 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:

• M1034.T8: Tuba with full orchestra - full scores
• M1034.5.T8: Cadenzas for works for tuba with full orchestra
• M1035.T8: Tuba with full orchestra - piano reductions
• M1134.T8: Tuba with string orchestra - full scores
• M1034.5.T8: Cadenzas for works for tuba with string orchestra
• M1035.T8: Tuba with string orchestra - piano reductions
   

Studies and methods:

• MT480: General works
• MT482: Systems and methods
• MT483: Teaching pieces
• MT484: Instructive editions
• MT485: Studies and exercises
• MT486: Orchestral studies (excerpts)
• MT487: Two tubas
• MT488: Self-instructors​

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

Solo tuba music: 

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

Tuba and piano music:

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

Duets:

• tubas (2)
• trombone and tuba music
• trumpet and tuba music
• horn and tuba music
• etc.

Trios:

• brass trios (trumpet, trombone, tuba) [also try other combinations of instruments with tuba]
• wind trios [use this subject heading to search for mixed brass and woodwind, various combinations of instruments]
  • wind trios (saxophone, clarinet, tuba)
  • wind trios (flute, horn, tuba)
  • wind trios (tubas (2), bassoon)
  • etc.
• trios [this subject heading will lead you to various combinations of stringed, brass, woodwind, etc. instruments]
  • trios (violin, tubas (2))
  • trios (trumpet, tuba, percussion)
  • etc.
     

Quartets [follow this pattern for quintets, sextets, septets, octets, and nonets]:

• brass quartets [this subject heading will return a list of various combinations of brass instruments, e.g. tubas (2), trombones (2)]
• wind quartets [this subject heading will return a list of various combinations of brass and woodwind instruments]
• suites [this subject heading will return a list of various combinations of instruments]
• variations [this subject heading will return a list of various combinations of instruments]
• wind quartets [mixed brass and woodwind, various combinations]
   

Tuba and orchestra:

• concertos (tuba)
• concertos (tuba solo with piano)
• tuba with orchestra
• concertos (tuba with string orchestra)
• rondos (tuba with orchestra)
• [fill in this blank with the genre you're looking for] (tuba with orchestra)