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The Literature and Pedagogy Guides are designed for use by music performance and pedagogy faculty and students.  Included in these guides are listing of call number ranges and subject headings for browsing/accessing books, journals, scores, and audio/visual recordings by specific instruments, family of instruments, and major ensembles.  Online resources such as links to notable professional organizations and commonly used web sites and blogs are also included.

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BROWSING AND CATALOG SEARCHING BY CALL NUMBER RANGES

Call Numbers

  • M50-M54 Violoncello alone
  • M229-M233 Violoncello and piano, original
  • M235-M236 Arrangements for violoncello and piano
  • M1016 Violoncello and orchestra (full score)
  • M1017 Violoncello and orchestra (piano reduction)
  • M1116 Violoncello and string orchestra (full score)
  • M1117 Violoncello and string orchestra (piano reduction)
  • ML128.V5 Violoncello music–Bibliography
  • ML128.S7 String instrument music–Bibliography
  • ML910-ML915 General: history and construction; music and playing
  • MT300-MT318 Violoncello techniques (including orchestral excerpts)
  • MT785-MT798 Instruction and study for children

Subject Headings

  • CONCERTOS (VIOLONCELLO)
  • CONCERTOS (VIOLONCELLO) –SOLO WITH PIANO
  • SONATAS (VIOLONCELLO), SONATAS (VIOLONCELLO AND CONTINUO), SONATAS (VIOLONCELLO AND PIANO)
  • SUITES (VIOLONCELLO), etc. (NOTE: THE SUBJECT TERM SUITES IS USED FOR ALL DIVERTIMENTI, CASSATIONS, PARTITAS, NOCTURNES, SERENADES, etc.)
  • SUITES (VIOLONCELLO WITH ORCHESTRA)—SOLO WITH PIANO
  • VIOLONCELLO
  • VIOLONCELLO --INSTRUCTION AND STUDY
  • VIOLONCELLO --ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
  • VIOLONCELLO --STUDIES AND EXERCISES
  • VIOLONCELLO AND HARPSICHORD MUSIC
  • VIOLONCELLO AND PIANO MUSIC
  • VIOLONCELLO AND PIANO MUSIC, ARRANGED
  • VIOLONCELLO MUSIC
  • VIOLONCELLO WITH ORCHESTRA—SOLO WITH PIANO
  • SONATAS (VIOLONCELLO)
  • SUITES (VIOLONCELLO)  - INCLUDES ALL CASSATIONS, DIVERTIMENTI, NOCTURNES, PARTITAS, AND SERENADES


PRINT RESOURCES (in the Reference Room)

Reference Books

De Rungs, Maria. Cello syllabus. Boston, Branden Press, [c1970].
-REF. STACKS – ML132.V5D4

Kenneson, Claude. Bibliography of cello ensemble music / Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1974.
-REF. STACKS – ML111 .D48 no.31.

Markevitch, Dimitry. The solo cello: a bibliography of the unaccompanied violoncello literature / Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, c1989.
-REF. STACKS - ML128.V5 M28 1989.

Wilkins, Wayne. The index of cello music : including the index of baroque trio sonatas / Magnolia, Ark. : Music Register, c1979.
-REF. STACKS – ML128.V5 W5.  

Journals

American String Teacher – REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML27.U5A8356
The Strad – REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML800.S87
String Magazine – REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML749.5 .S87

Also see:
International Musician – REF. (CURRENTY PERIODICALS) ML1.I8
Symphony Magazine –REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML1.A7283

Directories

Musical America: International Directory of the Performing Arts - REF. STACKS – ML13.M83 2005.

***Provides a comprehensive list of music schools, summer music camps, music festivals, competitions, performance venues, and scholarship and financial aid information.


AUDIO-VISUAL RESOURCES

Bach cello suites Rostropovich [videorecording].
-DVD. Ask at desk: M51 .B2 S825 2004

Inspired by Bach [videorecording] / [presented by] Rhombus Media ; produced by Niv Fichman.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M51 .B2 S85 2000 [3 volumes]

Zara Nelsova [videorecording] : grande dame of the cello = grande dame du violoncelle.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML418 .N45 Z37 2005

Orlando Cole and Lynn Harrell explore the bow arm [videorecording] / directed and produced by Ron Kanter ; a production of Video/Film Associates.
-DVD. Ask at desk: M307 .O75 2005 [2 volumes]

Pablo Casals master class at Berkeley [videorecording] / [presented by] National Educational Television and Radio Center in cooperation with the University of California Extension [and] Homevideo Exclusives ; directed by Alexander Hammid ; produced by Nathan Kroll.
-DVD. Ask at desk: MT300 .P33 2005  [15 volumes]

Pablo Casals [videorecording] / presented by the Mannes College of Music ; produced and directed by Robert Snyder.
-DVD. Ask at desk: ML418 .C4 P33 2005

The Popper manifesto [videorecording] : a do-it yourself guide to David Popper’s "High school of cello playing" (40 etudes op. 73) / Dennis Parker, cello
- DVD. Ask at desk: MT300 .P6 2003

Rostropovich/Richter [videorecording] : Beethoven sonatas for cello and piano / EMI Classics presents an Ideale Audience International & IMG Artists production, released with the participation of BBC, INA, and CNC
- DVD. Ask at desk: M231 .B43 R67 2002

Paul Tortelier [videorecording] / an Idéale Audience International & IMG Artists production
- DVD. Ask at desk: ML418 .T64 P38 2005


ONLINE RESOURCES

Internet Cello Society – http://www.cello.org  (look for their newsletter Tutti Cello)

Also see:

American Federation of Musicians – http://www.afm.org
American String Teachers Association - http://www.astaweb.com
Music Teachers National Association – http://www.mtna.org

*Call numbers apply to UT held items only


University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Pauline Bayne and Nathalie Hristov, Revised August 2007