Type in a date or a partial date in the Date box:

We can look for music written during a certain date range. Select a category at the bottom of the database search page (optional). Separate a date range by typing two periods, and the database will return results 'from' the first year 'to' the second year. For example, type 1712..1719 in the Date field. You will be given a set of results with a number of titles by composers who were either born or died during that period.

In order to further specify dates, it is necessary to understand the format of the dates in the database. Dates are listed in the following manner: ( 1685 - 1750 ). Note that there are spaces between the leading parenthesis and birth date, both before and after the hyphen, and between the death date and closing parenthesis. To locate a composer born in 1685, type your request this way, including the quotation marks at the beginning and end:"( 1685 - " . The Music-In-Print web interface only lists the first composer of a collection, so some works that might not initially appear to fit the criteria do in fact, have a composer that was born in that year!