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Searching Oxford Music Online

Oxford Music Online has many practical search conventions and is super easy to use.  They have Boolean searching, wildcard capability, and more to enhance your search.

Boolean operator:

AND

embouchure AND  instruments      Returns articles that contain BOTH words.

OR

brass  or woodwind                        Returns articles that contain EITHER word.

Search example: embouchure AND instruments  AND (brass or woodwind)  

Wildcards: 

Use wildcard *  for multiple letters

Example:  symphon* will fetch “symphonies” , “symphonic” , “symphonia”

Use ? to replace a single letter of which you are unsure.

Convention to enter names:  

Lastname  

Lastname, firstname

General search

seeks within the text of each article, by default

Entry Title

casts a net into only article titles

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