Music

Keyword Search - Examples: jazz, Mozart, trumpet

Phrases - Use parentheses when it is essential for words to be searched together as a phrase.  Example: "music theory" 

Boolean Operators - Combine two search terms to focus a topic by using AND, OR, or NOT.  Example: Texas AND music.

Synonyms - Brainstorm different words for the concept and use those terms also.  Examples:  voice, vocal

Truncation - Use an asterisk * to take the place of letters so that variant forms can be searched at the same time.  Example:  music* searches music, musician, musical.

Nesting - You can make searches more specific by using parentheses. Example: (voice OR vocal) AND instruction.

To find books of printed music in the NVC Library, use One Search.  In your results list, use the left-hand side filters to choose "Musical Score".

Similarly, you can find video, either DVD or streaming, by filtering for "Video".

This example was a search for Beethoven.