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Brass Band Music
Celtic Music
Flute Music
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Jazz
Middle Eastern Music
Musicals
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Percussion
Piano Music
Pop/Rock Music
Songs and Singing
String Music
Introduction
The scores in the music collection are organised by the British Catalogue of Music Classification Scheme. This scheme allows all material for each instrument to be grouped together on the shelves and then further organised by genre within those instrumental groupings. For example, all rock vocal music, all piano sonatas, all flute and piano arrangements etc. are shelved together.
Outline
Below is a general outline of the scheme relating to popular vocal music. The shelves are clearly labelled to guide you in the right direction.
| KDH/AY | Collections of sacred songs (not classical) |
| KDH/LB | Contemporary Christian songs |
| KDH/LCD | Spirituals |
| KDH/LCG | Gospel songs |
| KDW | Collections of songs by individual songwriters (show music, early popular etc such as Berlin, Gershwin, Lloyd Webber, Rodgers) |
| KDW/AY | Collections of popular music pre-1950s For popular music from particular countries add any of the country codes below to KDW/AY e.g. KDW/AYX for popular Australian music (as opposed to traditional folk music) |
| KDW/GB | Collections of rock, popular folk and popular vocal music, recording artists and groups |
| KDW/GC | Country music songs |
| KDW/HHW | Blues songs |
| KDW/HJ | Jazz songs |
| KDW/J | Songs from stage productions |
| KDW/JR | Songs from films |
KDW/JS |
Songs from television |
| KDW/JV | Music hall songs |
| KDW/KDD | Wedding songs |
By adding an e after the K in any of the above classifications, you will find songs with guitar accompaniment rather than piano e.g.:
KEDW/AY
KEDW/GB
KEDW/JR etc.
Main Country Designations:
| D | England |
| DM | Ireland |
| H | France |
| J | Italy |
| T | United States |
| U | Latin America |
| X | Australia |
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