ABSTRACT
This overview of the morphology of music bibliography argues for an appreciation of the necessary inter-relationships between its major components. The article summarizes the current status of music bibliography and the practical issues facing bibliographers today: bibliographic standards and selectivity, problems of classification, and the concerns of the new school of physical bibliography and reference bibliography. It is useful to view the components of music bibliography in the overall framework of general bibliography. The context further needs to be viewed critically as well as descriptively: the very success of recent scholarship justifies our beginning to consider what might be called the “ecology of music bibliography.”
