Shorter works will usually be only in collections or anthologies of similar works. Try the following strategies:
Perform a Keyword Anywhere search in ILLINET Online, enter the composer's last name and words from the title.
Search for general anthologies or collections (e.g., song collections):
In a Keyword Anywhere search in ILLINET Online enter the composer's last name and the genre name in plural form (e.g., songs).
Examples:
liszt piano music
schubert songs
If you are looking for songs in printed anthologies, also use a song index such as the Sears Song Index. To locate song indexes, perform a Browse Subject search in ILLINET Online for "songs indexes" or search the UTK Song Index (http://toltec.lib.utk.edu/~music/old/music-songlist-home.html).
Find the composition in a composer's collected works. Find by performing a Keyword Anywhere search in ILLINET Online using the composer's name and the word, works.
Examples:
schubert franz works
mozart wolfgang works
To find the composition within a collected works edition, use the bibliography at the end of the article on the composer in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (R.780.3 G883D6) or use Anna Harriet Heyer's Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music (R.780 H615h3).
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