Assignment 4: Creating a faceted hierarchical classification scheme
LIBR 287: Seminar in Information Science
Instructor: Robert Bruce

Objective

In this assignment you will create a faceted hierarchy classification scheme to organize the following (see page 2) series of publications (titles of books and musical scores) for a public or academic library. After you’ve created your list of facets, please write a double-spaced five pages (minimum) to ten pages (maximum) narrative in which you justify why you choose each particular facet in your faceted hierarchical classification scheme. Following this narrative, list your facets. Please indent your facet hierarchy for readability (if applicable). Here’s an example from the book, Theory of library classification by Brian Buchanan (1979, pp. 66-67) on zoology.

Form of presentation (facet)

• Essays
• Periodicals

Operations (facet)

• Collection
• Experiments
  • Field experiments
  • Laboratory experiments
• Identification
  • Classification / Taxonomy
  • Naming / Nomenclature

General Processes (facet)

• Development / maturation
• Adapation

Activities (facet)

• Activities / behavior
• Social behavior
• Play
• Hibernation
• Migration

Attributes (facet)

• Intelligence
• Aggression

Note: I do not want you to determine anything more about these publications other than what their titles suggest. In other words, please don’t search for these publications online or view them in print format to determine their subject matter.

Hint: Be creative in developing your facets. As a librarian, you may decide to create a general reference type of facet because a title indicates it contains that type of information.

List of publications to classify in a faceted hierarchical scheme:

• African American music: an introduction
• American ballads and folk songs [printed sheet music]
• An annotated catalog of composers of African ancestry
• An anthology of early Renaissance music [printed sheet music]
• Anthology of medieval music [printed sheet music]
• Ballads and songs of Southern Michigan [printed sheet music]
• Bibliography of Black music
• Black music in America: a bibliography
• Black music, white business: illuminating the history and political economy of jazz
• Canons. 6 various instrumental compositions [printed sheet music composed by
• Johann Sebastian Bach].
• Chinese musical instruments
• A choice collection of lessons for the harpsichord or spinnet
• Choral music by Afro-American composers: a selected, annotated bibliography
• The Choral singer’s handbook: how to become a good choral singer
• Classical musical instruments
• Collected works of Scott Joplin [printed sheet music composed by Scott Joplin]
• Complete works for the piano [printed sheet music composed by Frédéric Chopin]
• Concertos for wind instruments and orchestra [printed sheet music composed by
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• Concise encyclopedia of Jewish music
• The concise encyclopedia of music and musicians
• Dictionary of American classical composers
• Dictionary of music
• Dictionary of popular music
• Directory of contemporary American musical instrument makers
• Domenico Cimarosa: his life and his operas
• Encyclopedia of music
• Encyclopedia of music in Canada
• An encyclopedia of musical instruments
• Expression in pop-rock music: a collection of critical and analytical essays
• Famous Mozart operas; an analytical guide for the opera-goer and armchair
• listener
• Folk songs out of Wisconsin [printed sheet music]
• Folk songs of Europe [printed sheet music]
• Folksongs of Alabama [printed sheet music]
• Folksingers and folksongs in America: a handbook of biography, bibliography,
• and discography.
• Grove's Dictionary of music and musicians
• Hard bop: jazz and Black music, 1955-1965
• The Harper dictionary of music
• The history of musical instruments
• The illustrated encyclopedia of musical instruments
• Index to opera, operetta, and musical comedy synopses in collections and
• periodicals
• Japanese musical instruments
• Korean musical instruments
• Latin American classical composers: a biographical dictionary
• The marriage of Figaro; comic opera in four acts. [printed sheet music by
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• Monk's music: Thelonious Monk and jazz history in the making
• The music address book: how to reach anyone who's anyone in music
• Musical instruments; a comprehensive dictionary
• Musical instruments: history, technology, and performance of instruments of
• western music
• Musical instruments of the world: an illustrated encyclopedia
• Musical instruments of tribal India
• The musicians guide to touring and promotion.
• The new Grove dictionary of American music
• The new Grove dictionary of musical instruments
• The new Harvard dictionary of music
• Opera companies and houses of the United States: a comprehensive, illustrated
• reference
• Opera Plot index: a guide to locating plots and descriptions of operas,
• operettas, and other works of the musical theatre, and associated material
• The Penguin dictionary of Indian classical music
• Philosophical perspectives on music
• Philosophies of music in medieval Islam
• Principles of singing: a textbook for first-year singers
• Quartets for stringed instruments [printed sheet music composed by
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• The rough guide to Cuban music
• The Schirmer guide to schools of music and conservatories throughout the world
• The six sonatas for violin and clavier [printed sheet music composed by
• Johann Sebastian Bach]
• Six symphonies [printed sheet music composed by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky]
• Songs of the American West [printed sheet music]
• The sound of light: a history of gospel music
• The thirty-two piano sonatas in 5 volumes [printed sheet music composed by
• Ludwig van Beethoven].
• Teaching rhythm and using classroom instruments
• Unsung: a history of women in American music
• The world of baroque & classical musical instruments
• 4 horn concertos [printed sheet music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]