Genre / Form Searches of the ASU Library Catalog

Quadrangle maps
Maps that cover a rectangular or nearly rectangular region defined by four specified points.

Quadrilles (Music)

Questionnaires

Quicksteps (Marches)

Quodlibets (Music)

Quotations
Compilations of quoted passages from books, speeches, or other sources.

Race films
Films produced with African American casts specifically for African American audiences beginning in the late silent-film days and continuing until the end of the 1940s.

Radio comedies

Radio commercials

Radio music
Music composed, arranged, or adapted for radio programs, such as their theme songs or background music.

Radio operas
Operas originally composed for radio.

Radio plays
Scripts of fictional radio programs.

Radio program excerpts
Portions of complete radio programs.

Radio programs

Radio public service announcements
Radio announcements aired by or on behalf of nonprofit or governmental organizations to persuade the audience to take some specific action or adopt a favorable view toward a service, institution, or cause. For radio programs aired by or on behalf of nonprofit or governmental organizations to promote the common well-being or general welfare of society see Public service radio programs.

Radio scripts

Radio serials

Radiosonde observations

Ragas

Ragtime music

Rap (Music)
For rap lyrics that appear without a musical setting see Rap lyrics.

Raster data

Rawinsonde observations

Readers (Publications)
Works containing material intended for instruction and practice in reading.

Reality television programs

Rebuses

Recipes
Instructions listing ingredients and procedures to prepare something, especially food. For collections of recipes in book form see Cookbooks.

Recorded accompaniments
Accompaniments issued without the principal part or parts, or that have been provided for music that is normally monophonic. For recordings of popular songs without the main vocal parts, intended to be sung along with for recreational or competitive purposes, see Karaoke.

Records (Documents)
Documents in any form created or received by an agency, institution, organization, or individual, accumulated in the normal conduct of business or affairs.

Records and briefs
Documents representing the arguments of one or more parties and other documents submitted to, or generated by, a court in a particular case.

Recreational works
Leisure activities to be engaged in for personal satisfaction or amusement.

Reels (Music)

Reference works
Works intended primarily for consultation rather than for consecutive reading.

Reformation Festival music
Music that is traditionally associated with the Reformation Festival celebration in the Lutheran and Reformed churches.

Reggae music

Registers (Lists)
Lists of names, addresses, events, dates, etc., usually presented in a single chronological or numerical sequence.

Relief models

Relief prints
Prints made from ink applied on the raised areas of the printing block or plate after the other areas have been carved or etched away.

Religious fiction

Religious films

Religious materials

Religious poetry

Religious television programs

Remixes (Music)
Musical compositions derived from one or more existing sound recordings through the process known as remixing.

Remote-sensing images
Images of planetary surfaces created by means of reflected or emitted electromagnetic energy.

Remote-sensing maps

Renga
Japanese linked verse that is written in alternating two- and three-line stanzas that depict pastoral themes.

Requiems

Resolutions (Law)

Responses (Music)

Restatements of the law

Reverse dictionaries
Works consisting of entries organized sequentially under their final element.

Reviews

Revues
Theatrical productions from around the end of the 18th century that feature a series of songs, dances, and other entertainments without any unifying dramatic element. For music for theatrical productions consisting of musical numbers (songs, ensembles, and dances) integrated into a dramatic framework see Musicals.

Rhapsodies (Music)

Rhythm and blues music

Ricercars

Riddles

Rigaudons (Music)

Road fiction
Fiction in which a life-changing journey is a central part of the action.

Road films
Films that are set on the open road.

Road maps

Robinsonades
Fiction about survival without the aid of civilization, frequently on a deserted island after a shipwreck or marooning.

Rock concert films

Rock films

Rock lyrics

Rock music
For rock lyrics that appear without a musical setting see Rock lyrics.

Rock videos

Romance comics
Comics that primarily depict romantic love.

Romance fiction
Fiction that primarily depicts romantic love. For medieval chivalric tales written in prose or poetry that depict an idealized code of civilized behavior that combines loyalty, honor, and courtly love see Romances.

Romance films
Films that feature the development of love between the main characters.

Romance television programs
Television programs that feature the development of love between the main characters.

Romances
Medieval chivalric tales written in prose or poetry that depict an idealized code of civilized behavior that combines loyalty, honor, and courtly love. For fiction that primarily depicts romantic love see Romance fiction.

Romances (Music)

Romans à clef
Fiction in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names. For fiction that depicts the lives of real people see Biographical fiction.

Romantic comedy films

Romantic plays
Plays that primarily depict romantic love.

Rondeaux
Poems that generally consist of 15 lines arranged in two or three stanzas that employ two rhymes and a refrain consisting of the opening words of the first line in the first stanza.

Rondeaux (Formes fixes)
French songs composed in rondeau form during the 13th-15th centuries.

Rondels
Poems that consist of 13 or 14 lines arranged in two or three stanzas that employ two rhymes and a two-line refrain.

Rondos

Rounds (Music)
Songs in which two or more voices sing exactly the same melody beginning at different times.

Royal ordinances

Rumbas (Music)