Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Music instruction sheets in the Subject Headings Manual

• Headings for instrumental music

• Headings for vocal music

• Headings for vocal ensembles and solos: choruses vs. cantatas | vocal ensembles | songs vs. solo cantatas

• Subdivisions and qualifiers for subject headings for musical compositions

• Coding of form and topic subdivisions in music subject headings

• Order of instruments in subject headings

• Those Darn Chorus Subject Headings!

• Chronological and geographic subdivisions for jazz and popular music headings

• Types of composition and LC subject headings

• See also Local (Yale Music Library) practice in 6XX fields

Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT)

• Applying LCGFT for Music at Yale

• MLA documentation

  • Best Practices for Using LCGFT for Music Resources

  • A hierarchical view of Genre/Form Terms in LCGFT

• LC documentation

  • Instruction sheet J242: Music from the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms Manual

Library of Congress Medium of Performance terms (LCMPT)

• Applying LCMPT for Music at Yale

  • When to use range terms for the names of instruments

  • See also MARC 382: Medium of Performance

• MLA Best Practices for Using LCMPT

• Exploring a Faceted World: discovering music resources using medium of performance and genre terms (recording of Hermine Vermeij, Casey Mullin, Kevin Kishimoto, and Beth Iseminger’s presentation at the 2015 MLA meeting)

General

• Search Library of Congress subject headings (LC Linked Data Service)

• Monthly list of Library of Congress subject headings