There is much to enjoy about composing indexes to books on music, but they can present a suite of different challenges. In this article, based on her presentation to the 2023 conference of the Indexing Society of Canada/Société canadienne d’indexation (ISC/SCI), Paula Clarke Bain shares her experience and tips on indexing several types of musical books, including scholarly works on classical music, and trade biographies/memoirs of contemporary pop/rock stars, offering insight into how to fine-tune your practice when indexing such materials.