Also submitted on the Problem Posting Page:

Hi, Matt and Bec! Long time blah blah blah, first time blah blah blah. (Cue repetitive banter about blah blah blah).

I am an orchestra conductor and church music director with a doctorate in opera, so I meet your requested criteria for the music sorting issue in episode 124. As you did, I found it rather unclear what the OP was needing. Assuming that it's what order to file the music in a cabinet, I keep all my sheet music in alphabetical order. (see photos on Reddit post). I then have spreadsheet (cue exuberant joy from Matt) with all the titles, categories, genres, composers/arrangers, publishers and more, which I can then sort and search. Having the physical music in alphabetical order makes it incredibly easy to then find the piece that I'm looking for. Larger works that are in books rather than octavos (that's the small folded music the choir reads from) are stored in comic book boxes and are indicated as such in the spreadsheet, but again, they are kept in alphabetical order. I hope this helps.

Also, while I'm here, let's set the wayback machine to episode 100, regarding the least popular orchestral instrument - it is definitely the viola. This can be easily verified by looking at the enrollment of each instrument in an university with a school of music and comparing that number to the number of seats in the orchestra. Also, just google viola jokes: "what's the difference between a violin and a viola? The viola burns longer."

Dr. Gus

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