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Call Numbers for Music
ML Music History and Criticism
ML47-54.8 Librettos and Texts
ML48-50.6 Operas
ML52.85-53.6 Oratorios
ML53.8-54.2 Other Choral Works
ML54.6-54.8 Solo Vocal Works
ML100-109 Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
ML100 General
ML105-107 Biographical
ML108 Terminology
ML109 Pronunciation
ML110-111.5 Music Librarianship
ML113-158.8 Bibliographies
ML113 General
ML114-119 By time period
ML120 By region or country
ML128 By topic
ML134 Composers, Biographical
ML134.5 Performers and Groups, Biographical
ML136-152 Catalogs
ML156-158.8 Discographies
ML159-360 Music History and Chronology
ML159-160 General Histories
ML161-197 Histories by period
ML198-360 Histories by region or country
ML385-429 Biographies
ML385-406 Collective
ML410 Individual Composers
ML420 Singers
ML421 Performing Groups
ML430-458 Performance Practice and Composition
ML459-1380 Instruments/Instrumental Music
ML1400-3265 The Voice and Vocal Music
ML3469-3541 Popular Music
ML3544-3775 National Music by region or country
ML3800-3920 Philosophy and Physics of Music
MT Music Instruction and Study
MT3-5 History
MT5.5-7 Music Theory
MT9-15 Printed Pedagogical Aids
MT20-34 Systems and Methods
MT35-39 Notation
MT40-67 Composition
MT68 Improvisation
MT70-74 Instrumentation and Orchestration
MT75 Interpretation
MT80 Embellishment
MT82 Memorizing
MT85 Conducting
MT90-146 Analysis and Appreciation, General
MT170-810 Instrumental Techniques
MT179-258 Keyboard
MT259-338 String
MT339-533 Wind
MT539-654 Plucked
MT655-725 Percussion
MT728-735 Ensembles
MT820-915 Singing and Vocal Techniques
MT955-956 Musical Theater
MT960 Music in the Theater