Find Chamber Music by Instrumentation

The Chamber Music Media Finder will help you find scores and recordings for different instruments. You may wonder why we offer three types of searches: "exact instrumentation," "including these instruments," and "exactly X parts."

Well, most of the time, most people probably want "exact instrumentation." So if you want duets for flute and piano, you can easily select one flute and one piano and get just that. If you're looking just for scores, don't forgot to select scores under format in the upper right corner.

The other two options can be more helpful with less common instruments. For example, if you want to listen to shakuhachi music, you can choose "including these instruments," any number of shakuhachi (under other woodwinds) and recordings (under format) to get pieces that include any number of shakuhachi parts.

This "including these instruments" option also often works better if you want to include percussion in your search because the number of percussion parts in a given piece of music is not always fixed.

The "exactly X parts" option could be helpful in some cases. Say you play sax and you want to play a duet, but you don't know with whom yet. You could choose scores under format, exactly 2 parts including 1 saxophone, and get all the duets for saxophone and something else without having to specify the other instrument.