How do you organise your music?

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This topic has 24 replies, 20 voices, and was last updated 13 years, 4 months ago by Elizabeth Volpé Bligh.

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November 4, 2011 at 2:42 pm #104813

carl-swanson
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Kreig- It’s really easy to use and it’s also easy to add new pieces to the master list. Much of the music I own I inherited from other harpists and it’s very fragile. So it needs to be very well protected(the envelopes and the drawers) and it also needs to lay flat. Years ago I was given almost all of the music Tournier ever wrote, and it’s all clean. I don’t think the harpist who gave it to me ever used most of it. But the paper is very fragile and I can’t work directly from the original publication. So when I want to use one of these pieces, I make a photocopy and work from that, leaving the originals in their pristine condition.

November 5, 2011 at 4:43 am #104814

patricia-jaeger
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For composers

November 5, 2011 at 10:04 pm #104815

andy-b
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Just got back from a local antique mall where I found a music cabinet with 14 shelves, 20″ wide and 11″ deep – and it was only $50! Looking forward to sorting out all my stacks of music tonight!

Cheers,

Andy

November 6, 2011 at 4:29 pm #104816

carl-swanson
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Congratulations Andy. I think you’re going to be surprised at how fast 14 shelves fill up. Start looking for the next music cabinet now!

November 9, 2011 at 4:15 pm #104817

Billy Jones
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Well for me, I group them from something broad going down to the specifics. Say for example, I would start with the genre, and then the year(though I sometimes opt out on this own just so I could play a good mix of tracks), down to artist and the album it came with.

November 25, 2011 at 8:28 am #104818

andee-craig
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I’ve got a 3-ring binder with tabs, it’s organized by reels, jigs, reels, hornpipes, barndances, polkas, slides, marches,

December 9, 2011 at 6:17 pm #104819

niina
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What does Organise mean?

December 9, 2011 at 7:57 pm #104820

catherine-rogers
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Same as organize.

December 10, 2011 at 12:09 am #104821

niina
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I was trying to be funny Catherine, because I’m a messy teenager

December 10, 2011 at 8:24 am #104822

Elizabeth Volpé Bligh
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I have a filing cabinet, with different categories such as orchestra parts, solo harp pieces, chamber music, chamber music, etc. For each category, the music is filed in the order in which I bought it. At the front of each category is a list with the names and numbers of each piece written on it. This is cross-referenced in a recipe card holder (small box). In the recipe card box, there are little alphabetical dividers. Under “B”, there is a recipe card for each composer whose name begins with “B”. For example, I have a card labelled “Bartok” in section “B”, and the card has the names and numbers of every orchestra part that I have by Bartok. This makes it very fast and easy to find music, but also to add to the collection.
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