[MLA-L] Juvenile piano music

Date: 6 Jun 2003 08:36:03 -0700
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Following up on recent posts concerning classification and subject
headings, I have a question about the heading Piano music--Juvenile and the
classification M1380. Are these routinely applied to piano pieces that are
merely easy to play, whether or not they are written for children?
The score in question is OCLC #36831268, a set of pieces on Persian
folksongs. While the pieces are easy enough to play, the preface - in
German and English both - contains a brief explanation of tuning systems,
among other things, with sentences like: "Apart from its quarter-tone
elevation of the second degree, this mode has the same structure as our
harmonic minor with the fourth degree of the scale serving as the tonic."
This record has a suggested call number of M1380 and Piano music--Juvenile
as one of its SH's, but I'm wondering who would shelve this set of pieces
with children's music. Of course, classification and subject headings are
different issues, and I don't have a problem with changing the call #, but
I was wondering if it is actually common to do this whenever the music is
merely "simple."
Alec
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Alec McLane
Scores & Recordings/ World Music Archives Phone: (860) 685-3899
Olin Library Fax: (860) 685-2661
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