Violin
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
- M40-M44 Violin alone
- M217-M221 Violin and piano, original
- M222-M223 Arrangements for violin and piano
- M1012 Violin with orchestra (full score)
- M1013 Violin with orchestra (piano reduction)
- M1112 Violin with string orchestra (full score)
- M1113 Violin with string orchestra (piano reduction)
- ML128.V4 Violin music–Bibliography
- ML128.S7 String instrument music–Bibliography
- ML132.V4 Violin music–Graded lists
- ML800-ML897 General: history and construction; music and playing
- MT260-MT279 Violin techniques
- MT760-MT778 Instruction and study for children
Subject Headings
- CONCERTOS (VIOLIN)
- CONCERTOS (VIOLIN) –SOLO WITH PIANO
- SONATAS (VIOLIN), SONATAS (VIOLIN AND CONTINUO), SONATAS (VIOLIN AND PIANO)
- SUITES (VIOLIN), etc. (NOTE: THE SUBJECT TERM SUITES IS USED FOR ALL DIVERTIMENTI, CASSATIONS, PARTITAS, NOCTURNES, SERENADES, etc.)
- SUITES (VIOLIN WITH ORCHESTRA)—SOLO WITH PIANO
- VIOLIN
- VIOLIN--BOW
- VIOLIN--CONSTRUCTION
- VIOLIN--HISTORY
- VIOLIN--INSTRUCTION & STUDY
- VIOLIN--METHODS--GROUP INSTRUCTION
- VIOLIN--METHODS (BLUEGRASS), etc.
- VIOLIN--PERIODICALS
- VIOLIN--PERFORMANCE
- VIOLIN--STUDIES & EXERCISES
- VIOLIN MUSIC
- VIOLINISTS
PRINT RESOURCES (in the Reference Room)
Reference Books
Katz, Mark. The Violin: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Routledge, 2006.
-REF. ML128.V4K38 2006
Klugherz, Laura. A Bibliographical Guide to Spanish Music for the Violin and Viola, 1900-1997. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
–REF. ML128.V4K58 1998
Wilkins, Wayne. The Index of Violin Music. Magnolia, AR: The Music Register.
–REF. ML128.V4W55.
Journals
American String Teacher – REF. (CURRENT PERIODICALS) ML27.U5A8356
The Strad – REF. (CURRENT PERIDICALS)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
The art of playing the violin [videorecording] / with Jaime Laredo. Caring for your violin / with Charles Beare
–DVD: MT260.A7 2005
The Heifetz master class at University of Southern California [videorecording] / presented by National Educational Television and Radio Center in cooperation with the Institute for Special Musical Studies at the University of Southern California
–DVD: Ask at desk: MT 271.H45 2005
Lessons with Ivan Galamian [videorecording] / produced by Charles Avsharian.
–DVD: Ask at desk: MT262.G174 2005
Master lessons with Zakhar Bron [videorecording] / Detlef Kessler, producer ; Axel Mütze, director. Violin concerto in no. 1 in A minor / Jean-Baptiste Accolaÿ.
–DVD: Ask at desk: M1000.J65 2003
Violin [videorecording] : six lessons with Yehudi Menuhin / Command Performance [and] Argo Record Company present a James Archibald production
–DVD: MT260.M46 2003
ONLINE RESOURCES
Violin Society of America - http://www.vsa.to/
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
Myauditions.com – http://www.myauditions.com
*Call numbers apply to UT held items only
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Pauline Bayne and Nathalie Hristov, Revised August 2007

