William and Gayle Cook Music Library
Indiana University School of Music

Guide to Music Classification Numbers

General guides to ranges of numbers

  • M = Music
  • ML = Literature about Music
  • MT = Musical Instruction and Study

    Guides by Instrument

  • Keyboard
  • Strings
  • Winds
  • Percussion

    Guides by Instrumental Combinations

  • Strings and strings with other instruments
  • Winds and winds with other instruments
  • Plectrals and plectrals with other instruments
  • Piano with other instruments
  • Other combinations
  • Chamber music
  • Chamber music instruction and study

    Guides by Large Instrumental Ensembles

  • Orchestra instruction and study
  • Orchestra music (including chamber orchestra)
  • String orchestra music
  • Reduced Orchestra Music
  • Dance orchestra and ensemble music
  • Band instruction and study
  • Band music
  • Jazz ensemble music

    Vocal Music

  • Secular
  • Sacred
  • Vocal Instruction Techniques

    Children's Categories

    Vocal music for children
  • Secular
  • Sacred

    Musical instruction

  • Instrumental instruction
  • Vocal instruction

    This Guide to Music Classification Numbers is offered as a service of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.

    This resource has been created based on the Library of Congress Music Classification Schedule, 3rd ed., 1979, by Dennis Davies-Wilson.

    Last updated: 19 June 1997.
    URL: http://www.music.indiana.edu/~l631/projects/LCMclass/mclass.htm

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