Subject Guide: Strings

• Fink, I. (Irving) and C. Merriell with the Guarneri String Quartet.  String Quartet Playing.  Neptune City, NJ:  Paganiniana Publications, 1985.
  [MT728.F55 1985]
• Lester, Joel.  Bach’s Works for Solo Violin:  Style, Structure, Performance.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  [electronic book; click title to view]
• McCalla, James.  Twentieth-century Chamber Music.  New York:  Schirmer Books, 1996.
  [ML1106.M33 1996]
• Stowell, Robin. The Cambridge Companion to the Violin. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992.
  [ML800 C35]
• Stowell, Robin.  Violin technique and performance practice in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  [ML855.S89 1985]
• Wilkins, Wayne. Index of Violin Music. Magnolia, AR: Music Register, 1973.
  [REF ML128 V4 W53]

These titles may be of special interest to wind players.  To locate other music titles, browse Pacificat for the subject "Music Periodicals".

• Instrumentalist
• Medical Problems of Performing Artists
• Chamber Music America
• The Strad
• Strings

• American String Teachers Association – Includes publications, information on conferences, state chapters, and job listings.
• Cello Collection at Jackson Library – The largest collection of cello music in the United States.
• International Society of Double Bassists - Includes information about the organization and its competitions and conventions.
• Internet Cello Society – Provides technique tips, information about professional and amateur cellists, a newsletter and library, internet links, discussion boards, etc.
• Maestronet.com – Includes information about instruments for sale, instrument makers and dealers, and stolen instruments.  Also has discussion boards and a select library of articles from various string publications.

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Searching (by keyword) is useful for finding items about a specific topic when you don't have a specific author or title.

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   • Chamber music
   • Double bass
   • Orchestral music
   • String -orchestra music
   • String quartet (for books)

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• Concertos violin
• Concertos violoncello solo with piano
• Sonatas viola
• String -orchestra music
• String quartets (for scores and recordings)
• String quintets [Follow for Sextets, Septets, Octets, Nonets as well]

(For chamber music with keyboard see also the Keyboard Subject Guide)

• String trios
• Violin and piano music
• Violin music
• Violin with