Reference Books
Topeka Symphony Orchestra (White Concert Hall, Washburn Campus)
Lied Center (Kansas University, West Campus)
Liberty Hall (Downtown Lawrence, Kansas)
The Granada (Downtown Lawrence, Kansas)
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts: New York Philharmonic by 
88 : The Giants of Jazz Piano by 
The Four Seasons : Concertos for Violin by Musicians need printed music in a variety of formats: performing editions, study scores, and critical editions. We will discuss the online catalog, called ATLAS, then address each of the formats separately.
Remember that ATLAS (Associated Topeka Libraries Automated System), the online catalog, reflects the holdings of several libraries in Topeka. The other members of the consortium that make up the ATLAS catalog are the Kansas Historical Society, the Kansas Supreme Court Law Library, as well as the Carnegie Education Library, and the School of Law Library on the Washburn campus. ATLAS does not have records for the Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library, the WU Music Department's Listening Library, or the Music Online: Premium music collection. Mabee has by far the largest music collection in the ATLAS consortium.
An explanation of some terminology is in order here. In library-land, the word "score" is used to refer to any sort of printed music, whether it is a true score in the musician's understanding of the term or sheet music for a solo instrument such as the piano, or a collection of songs for voice and piano.
Performing Editions: An edition of a score usually prepared from a secondary source, to which the editor (sometimes a well-known performer) adds performance notes and articulations that are indistinguishable from those of the source. Designed to help the modern performer, performing editions include elements of performance practice "written in" by the editor. Performing editions are commonly used in private lessons.
Urtext Score: A score prepared on the basis of a critical evaluation of all known primary sources, this class of edition is designed to present the most authoritative and authentic version of a musical work. Any editorial material added to an Urtext edition is clearly distinguished from original material. These editions require you to use your own knowledge of performance practice.
(Source: Catholic Universities of America)
Study Scores: A type of urtext edition in a smaller format, excellent for reading and studying the music, but not very suitable for performance. Study scores of orchestral works present the score of the appropriate complete edition, and also include a specially written preface.
(Source: G. Henle Verlag Publishing)
Critical Editions: Also known as scholarly editions, these publications analyze aspects of a composition or compare versions; they aren’t meant for use in performance. For example, a critical edition of a Mozart piano piece might discuss the ways in which Mozart employed slurs and examine how slurs could be performed and whether they might be added when they aren’t notated.
(Source: The Musician's Way Blog)
Classical music is the most complex to deal with in a library, so it is given its own set of pages. But Mabee holds printed music in a wide variety of other genres ... jazz, folk, and musical theater, to name a few.
Here are some hints for locating other musical genres in the Encore online catalog.
If you need a particular song, a keyword search is usually the most effective type of search. For example, the song title "The Sound of Silence" could be searched in a number of ways. A title search returns no hits. For a search under the author's name, Paul Simon, several people by that name come up, but no "The Sound of Silence."
However, a keyword search using the standard boolean operator "and" or phrase searching within quotation marks will look through the complete record for "sound of silence." Multiple hits are returned, one of which is a song collection which contains "sound and silence" within it.
To search for books, DVDs, videos, Internet sites and government documents use the ATLAS Library Catalog. By default it will search for materials owned by Mabee Library and Internet sites, but you may expand the search to include other Washburn and Topeka libraries. List of libraries included in ATLAS.
KEYWORD searching is the default mode but SUBJECT searching generally gets more focused results.
For complex topics, select ADVANCED search, located below the search box.
Finding Books Guide
Library of Congress Call Numbers
Here are the broad Library of Congress classification numbers for music materials:
