About the Music Library
The music library is an application you can use to keep track of the sheet music in your library. While intended for full-size concert bands, brass bands, wind ensembles, and orchestras, the music database can be tailored to fit the complexity of any size library.
Music Library access requirements
This application uses responsive front-end designs built on Bootstrap.
The most current, and the three previously released versions of Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, are supported. A secure connection using TLS v1.1 or v1.2, which the above browsers include by default, is required.
Pages
These are the pages you can find in this application:
Main pages
- Home
- The Music Library Home page contains the organization title and links to the three main pages of the application: Search, Enter, and Reports. At the bottom of the home page, you see a randomly selected title and composer of a piece from the library.
- Search
- On the Search page, you can enter text queries to find compositions in the library.
- Enter
- The Enter page provides a menu of links to other pages where you can list and input library data
List/entry pages
- Compositions
- On the Compositions page, you see a list of all the compositions in the library. From the list, you can search
Database tables
These are the tables that are used in the music library database.
- Compositions
- Work with compositions in the music library. This table holds the data about the music in the library. You find here the title, composer, arranger, publish date, etc.
- Ensembles
- Work with ensembles. Bands and smaller ensembles
- Genres
- Work with genres. Types of music genre such as "March" or "Symphonic transcription" or "Showtune"
- Part types
- Work with types of parts. Examples are Flute 1 or Tuba
- Part type collections
- Work with types of parts that are collections. A "collection" part type contains two or more instruments on one part. For example, "percussion 1" contains "Cymbal" and "Bass drum"
- Paper sizes
- Work with sizes of parts. This is a lookup table for which size of paper the parts are printed, for example Folio, march or book
- Recordings
- A catalog of performance recordings of each composition
- Users
- Users who can access the database, with username/password and role permissions. Roles are "administrator", "user" or both.
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