• Use the ADVANCED KEYWORD option to combine search terms
• If the composer has assigned a unique number (K. BWV Op.) use this as a search term. Just use the number (e.g. 466 NOT K.466)
• Enter the genre in the plural (e.g. Symphonies, Sonatas, Masses, Quartets)
• Always express the title of a work in the original language that the composer used (e.g. Zauberflote NOT Magic Flute)
• Limit your material type to MUSIC SCORES or MUSIC RECORDINGS

• You may wish to confine your search to a particular MATERIAL type e.g. MUSIC SCORE or MUSIC RECORDING (for a CD)
• It is also possible to limit your search by a specific LOCATION
• Some of the more commonly used locations are CON MUSIC, FISHER, or ANY

• These numbers may be combined with other search terms e.g the composers name.
• Always remember to connect more than one search term with "and" so that the term will not be searched as a phrase.
• The example here is for Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132.
• The search terms are:
  beethoven [and]
  132
• To further refine your search limit the material type to MUSIC SCORE and make your location CON MUSIC

• Notice that the GENRE is generally entered in the PLURAL.
• The exception is when a composer has only composed one work in that genre
• To search for a score of the Piano Concerto by composer Ross Edwards enter search terms as per the example. 
• Enter the instrument to narrow your search further.

• Not sure where to check for the original language?
  Try New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• The example given is a search for a CD of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro.