Guides to searching for books at Yale and beyond include the following:
Music Research @ Yale: Finding Books for searching Orbis, and Quicksearch for Books+ tips
Get It @ Yale - for time frames for requesting books and other materials from various libraries at Yale; also how to get books from other libraries
Names of musical instruments or families of instruments, for example,
In addition to the main subject heading, there are useful subdivisions for identifying reference works, handbooks, and lists of books and articles. Enter these as keywords in the Basic search, or better still as Keywords in Subject in Advanced Search:
Bibliography
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Examples of other kinds of subheadings:
[topic or instrument] - Physiological Aspects
[topic] - Psychological Aspects
[topic or instrument] - Social Aspects
[place] - Social Life and Customs
The Cambridge History of Musical Performance by 
Oxford History of Western Music by 
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