Music Classification SystemsLibrarians have long considered music a separate language and the organization and arrangement of its materials challenging. Often, the task of cataloging and providing access to those materials is so painstaking that it sits on the back burner awaiting a stroke of genius to complete it. In response to this problematic situation, this book, the first in the Music Library Association's Basic Manual Series, is designed to introduce the principles of music classification to beginning music catalogers, as well as nonspecialist catalogers and others who only occasionally deal with music materials. Besides providing practical guidelines for music classification, this book also clarifies and explains the most commonly used classification systems in the United States--Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), Library of Congress Classification (LCC), and Alpha-Numeric System for Classification of Recordings (ANSCR). This manual presents a number of illustrative examples and combines theoretical principles with practical how-to advice. |
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AlphaNumeric System for Classification | 1 |
Dewey Decimal Classification DDC | 10 |
Library of Congress Classification LCC | 39 |
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AACR2 accompaniment Album title American ANSCR applied areas arrangement Bach brary browsing cadenzas call number cantatas chamber music choral music Choruses class number classification systems Collections Separate composer compositions concertos Congress Classification cutter number Dewey Decimal Classification duets early music edition electronic ensembles entry element example excerpts facets folk music full scores genre geographic Ibid includes instructions instrumental music jazz keyboard Keyboard instruments LC's LCC:M LCC's LCSH librarians Library of Congress literary warrant ments music collections Music Librarianship Music Library music materials musical forms number building operas organ pattern percussion percussion instruments performers piano music plucked instruments popular music principles published quartets Relative Index scheme scope note secular shelf shelflisting Smiraglia solo instrument sonatas songs Sonneck sound recordings specific standard subdivisions Stringed instruments subarrangement subclass MT Term tion title entry topics types unaccompanied users violin vocal music Wind instruments