General music cataloging resources

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• Music Library Association Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC)
• Musical instruments
  • The names of instruments and voices in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish
  • When is a flute not a flute, by David Lasocki
  • Musical instrument ranges
• Information about vocal music: Vocal ranges | What does SATB mean? | Song cycles | Parts of the mass
• Music publishers: list from IMSLP, with direct links for music publishers plate numbers (useful for estimating a date for a score with no date of publication)
• Music terminology and symbols: Basic glossary of musical forms | Dolmetsch music dictionary online | On music dictionary
  Dolmetsch musical symbols: explanation of musical notation, some with equivalents in other languages | Music terminology
  Italian musical terminology (see also Music-specific language tools)
• Notation
  • Table of musical pitches
  • Early music notation:
    • Neume notation through history
    • Evolution of noteshapes
    • Rhythmic modes in medieval polyphony
• When to create a new bibliographic record for music
• Guidelines for determining proper format for scores and score-like material