Music 282: Vocal Solo Literature II

St. Olaf College Libraries uses the Library of Congress Classification system to create call numbers.  Here are some useful call numbers for singers:

M 2                          Collected anthologies (for example, M2 .R3 is Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era)
M 3                          Collected works of individual composers (for example, M3 .D35 is the complete works of Debussy)
M 1500                    Full scores of operas (alphabetical by composer)
M 1503                    Vocal scores of operas and musicals (alphabetical by composer)
M 1619                    Collections of songs by two or more composers
M 1620                    Collections of songs by one composer (alphabetical by composer)
M 1621                    Separate songs (alphabetical by composer)
M 1621.4                 Song cycles (alphabetical by composer)
M 1629                    National song collections
M 1630.18               Popular song collections
M 2027                    Sacred solo arias
ML 54.6                   Translations of song texts
ML 128.V7              Bibliographies of vocal repertoire and literature (lists of potential repertoire!)
ML 410                    Biographies of composers (alphabetical by last name)
ML 420                    Biographies of singers (alphabetical by last name)
ML 1400-1460         Books about vocal history and criticism
MT 820-893            Vocal instruction and study (techniques, method books. etc.)