LibGuides: Music Composition: Subject Headings

Difficulty Levels

American Band College Music Grading Chart
Difficulty Rating Scale - String Music
Handbell Music Difficulty Levels
This system should be used only as a guide. Tempo, number of ringers, handbell assignments, etc. will have a dramatic effect on the difficulty of any music selected.
Instrumental Grading Scale

What are some useful subject headings to help locate materials about composing?

Using an LC Subject Heading is the most efficient way of searching the library catalog. Search MaagNET for materials related to the subjects below:

Aleatoric Music
Arranging
Atonal music
Aural training
Avant-garde (Music)
Composition (Music)
Computer game music
Computer sound processing
Copyright -- Music -- United States
Counterpoint
Electronic music
Experimental music - see Avant-garde (Music)
Film music - see Motion picture music
Fugue
Harmony
History of film - see Motion pictures -- History
Instrumentation and orchestration
Meter and rhythm
MIDI
Motion picture music
Motion pictures -- History
Music -- Data processing
Music -- Economic aspects
Music -- Psychological aspects
Music -- Semiotics
Music -- Social aspects
Music and technology
Music history and criticism
Music theory
Music trade
Musical intervals and scales
Musical notation
Popular music -- Writing and publishing
Rhythm
Sight-reading (Music)
Sight-singing
Transposition (Music)
Twelve-tone system

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