Call Numbers for Music

M1-M5000 Music scores
M5-M1490 Instrumental Music
M1500-M2200 Vocal Music

ML1-ML3999 Books about music
ML 1 and ML5 Many of the music periodicals
ML410 Biographies of musicians arranged alphabetically
ML 3400-3479 Popular, dance and national music

MT1-MT999 Music Theory, Techniques,Pedagogy and Therapy

Reading Music Call numbers

M, ML, MT score, literature or technique (theory)
3962 classification: whole numbers.
.B12 composer, subject or author: decimals
op.61 or K176 or C maj. opus, thematic catalog number, key or date
A call number may have several of these last features on different lines

For more detailed information see the Library of Congress Classification Outline for Music or the Library of Congress Subject Headings (Z695.Z8 L524A1)

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