National Library of Australia


Part 2: Libraries Using Library of Congress Classification



Line    Category/                                      NUC     CL     AC     GL
 #      Subject


MUS0     MUSIC                                         QU     3aF    3aF                

MUS0.5   General music                                 QU      3a     3a                 

MUS3     Collection of musical sources                 QU     3aF    3aF                

MUS4     Collected works of individual composers       QU     3b     3b                 

MUS5.5   Instrumental music                            QU      3a     3a                 

MUS7     Organ music                                   QU      3a     3a                 

MUS8     Piano music                                   QU      3a     3a                 

MUS13    Piano for more than two hands, two            QU      3a     3a                 
         pianos                                                                          

MUS14    Piano and one other instrument                QU     3a     3a                 

MUS15    Duets without keyboard instruments            QU      3a        3a                 

MUS16    Chamber ensembles - trios, nonets and         QU     3a        3a                 
         larger                                                                          

MUS18    Orchestral music - symphonies,                QU     3a        3a                 
         concertos, etc.                                                                 

MUS19    String orchestra music - symphonies,          QU     3a        3a                 
         concertos                                                                       

MUS25.5  Vocal music                                   QU      3aF       3aF                

MUS26    Collections of vocal music - general          QU      3aF       3aF                
         and secular                                                                         

MUS27    Operas, incidental music, ballets             QU      3aF       3aF                

MUS29    Duets, trios, etc. for solo voices            QU     3aF       3aF                

MUS30    Choruses with orchestra or other              QU      3aF       3aF                
         ensembles                                                                       

MUS32    Songs, solo cantatas, recitations -           QU     3aF       3aF                
         accompanied                                                                     

MUS41    National music - Australia                    QU     3b        3b                 

MUS48    Sacred choruses with orchestra or other       QU      3aF       3aF                
         ensemble                                                                        

MUS49    Sacred choruses, part-songs, solo             QU      3aF       3aF                
         instrument                                                                      

MUS50    Sacred songs/solo cantatas/ recitations       QU      3aF       3aF                

MUS57.5  Literature of music                           QU     3bF       3bF                
 
MUS58    Periodicals, United States                    QU     3b        3b                 

MUS60    Periodicals, after 1800, foreign              QU      3bF       3bF                

MUS61    Directories                                   QU     3a        3b                 

MUS62    Publications of societies                     QU     3a        3a                 
 
MUS66    Librettos                                     QU      2bW       3bW                

MUS67    Collected literary works (essays, etc.)       QU      3bW       3bW                
 
MUS68    Special topics                                QU      3a        3a                 

MUS69    Musical iconography                           QU      2bF       3aF                

MUS74    Dictionaries, encyclopedias                   QU      3bE       3bE                

MUS75    Music bibliography                            QU     3bW       4 W                

MUS76    Catalogs                                      QU     3bW       3bW                
 
MUS79    History after 1800                            QU      3bF       3bF                

MUS80    Antiquity, history and criticism              QU      3bF       3bF                

MUS81    Medieval and Renaissance music history        QU      3bF       3bF                
         and criticism                                                                   

MUS82    General works                                 QU      3b        3b                 

MUS83    Seventeenth Century music, history and        QU      3b        3b                 
         criticism                                                                       

MUS84    Eighteenth Century music, history and         QU      3b        3b                 
         criticism                                                                       

MUS85    Nineteenth Century music, history and         QU      3bF       3bF                
         criticism                                                                       

MUS86    Twentieth Century music, history and          QU      3b        3b                 
         criticism                                                                       

MUS87    American - history and criticism              QU     3a        3a                 

MUS88    Europe, history and criticism                 QU      3bF       3bF                

MUS89    Asia, history and criticism                   QU     3a        3a                 

MUS91    Australia, history and criticism              QU     3b        4                  

MUS92    Biographies                                   QU      3aF       3b                 

MUS93    Composition                                   QU      3aF       3bF                

MUS94    Conducting                                    QU     3a        3b                 

MUS95    Periodicals, societies, serials               QU     3b        3b                 

MUS96    Musical instruments                           QU      3bF       3bF                

MUS97    Chamber music                                 QU      3a        3a                 

MUS98    Orchestral music                              QU      3aF       3a                 

MUS100   Vocal music                                   QU      2b        3a                 

MUS101   Choral music                                  QU      2b        3a                 

MUS102   Secular vocal music                           QU     3aF       3aF                

MUS103   Sacred vocal music                            QU      3aF       3aF                

MUS114   Oceania, Australia                            QU      3a        3b                 

MUS119   Musical life                                  QU     3a        3b                 

MUS120   Musicology                                    QU      3bF       3bF                

MUS121   Ethnomusicology                               QU      3a        3b                 

MUS122   Philosophy and physics of music               QU     3bF       3bF                
  
MUS123.5 Music instruction and study                   QU      3aF       3aF                

MUS124   Theory of musical instruction and study       QU     3a        3b                 

MUS125   History and criticism                         QU     3a        3a                 

MUS126   Music theory                                  QU     3a        3b                 

MUS128   Notation, diction, ear training               QU      3a        3a                 

MUS129   Composition                                   QU      3bF       3bF                

MUS130   Improvisation                                 QU     3a        2b                 

MUS131   Orchestration                                 QU      3b        3b                 

MUS132   Conducting and organisations                  QU      3a        3b                 

MUS133   Hermeneutics                                  QU      3bF       3bF                

MUS134   Instrumental Techniques                       QU     3aF       3aF                
 
MUS135   Singing and voice culture                     QU      3aF       3aF                

MUS139.5 Sound recordings                              QU                                     

MUS140   Standard concert repertory                    QU      3b        3b                 

MUS143   Post-1945 western art music                   QU      3a        3b                 

MUS146   Pedagogical music                             QU     2b        3a                 

MUS158   E Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Tibet            QU     3a        3a                 
         Mongolia)                                                                       

MUS161   Australia and Oceania                         QU     Cot3b     3b                 

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