ABSTRACT
Musaurus is referred to as a guide to the structure of musical knowledge, and has three parts: a scholarly introduction; a comprehensive hierarchical thesaurus, with some 4000 terms covering the scholarly professional and business aspects of music; an alphabetical, fully rotated index of some 9000 terms which includes every significant word in Musaurus. Musaurus is intended to act as a guide for the organization of all kinds of music information collections; it is more fully developed than any other system. The aim of Musaurus was to provide a comprehensive system for indexing the whole field of music, including music scholarship, the music profession and the music industry. The Musaurus geography auxiliaries present a complete thesaurus in themselves. MusBib covered the whole field of music, with the exception of pop, and was arranged in four sections: bibliography; performances; recordings; and index.
