Music Cataloging at Yale Sound recording cataloging

Sound recordings present many possibilities of name and title access points. Follow chapters 21 and 25 and the corresponding LCRIs, to determine the choice of main entry and added entries:

One composer

Main entry for one composer, 1 work (25.7A)

• Enter under composer/uniform title (100/240)

Main entry for one composer, 2 works (25.7A)

• Enter under composer/uniform title (100/240) for the first work
• Make name/uniform title added entry (700/‡t) for the second work

Main entry for one composer, 3-5 works (LCRI 25.34B-25.34C)

• Enter under composer/collective uniform title (100/240) appropriate to the item as a whole
• Make name/uniform title added entries (700/‡t) for each work
• This does not apply to all of a composer's works of one type or medium or to a collection of a consecutively numbered group of works; to collections of non-classical music; or to multi-disc collections that are not yet complete.

Main entry for one composer, 6 or more works (LCRI 25.34B-25.34C)

• Enter under the name/collective uniform title (100/240) appropriate to the item as a whole
• Make name/uniform title added entries (700/‡t) as follows:

  1. If the works may be divided into not more than five groups of three or more works, for each of which a collective uniform title naming a type would be appropriate, make a name/uniform title added entry for each group. Translation: use up to five collective uniform titles, OR

  2. If some of the works can be grouped as in #1 above and others cannot, and the groups and the remaining individual works together add up to five or less, make a name/uniform title added entry for each group and for each of the remaining works. Translation: use up to five collective and individual uniform title, OR

  3. If neither #1 or #2 above can be applied but one of the works is featured, make a name/uniform title added entry for that work; in addition, make a name/collective uniform title added entry appropriate to the remaining works if it is different from that used in the main entry. Translation: if it is impossible to limit the name/uniform title added entries to five collective and/or individual uniform titles, use a name/uniform title for any work that is featured on the item and make a collective uniform title for the rest of the works, as long as that collective uniform title does not end up being the same as the collective uniform title in the 240 field.

Two or more composers

Main entry for two or more composers : with a collective title
If a sound recording has works by two or more composers and has a collective title, the main entry is under either:

• Principal performer: Enter under the heading (1XX) for the person/body represented as principal performer on the chief source of information when:

  1. When two or more principal performers are named in the chief source of information, consider to be principal performers those given the greatest prominence there. If all performers named in the chief source of information are given equal prominence there, consider all to be principal performers.

  2.When only one performer is named in the chief source of information, consider that performer to be a principal performer.

  OR

• Title proper: Enter under title (245):
  

  1. When there are four or more principal performers.

  2. When none of the performers are named in the chief source of information (consider that there are no principal performers).

Main entry for two or more composers : without a collective title (21.23D, b) (This rule refers to "classical" music)
If a sound recording has works by two or more composers without a collective title:

• Main entry is under name/uniform title (100/240) for the first work;
• Make name/uniform title added entries (700/‡t) for the other works;
• Make name added entries (700) for principal performers.

Order of added entries

Added entries for two or more composers : with a collective title

(LCRI 21.7B) Main entry is under principal performer or title proper.
When there are twenty-five or fewer works needing two or more different name/uniform title headings, create up to fifteen headings following these guidelines:

• Make one name/uniform title added entry for:

  1. one work by one composer

  2. one excerpt from one work by one composer

  two or more consecutively numbered excerpts from one work by one composer

  3. three or more unnumbered or nonconsecutively numbered excerpts from one work by one composer

  4. three or more works by one composer (enter under a collective uniform title under the name of the composer)

• Make two name/uniform title added entries for:

  1. two works by one composer

  2. two unnumbered or nonconsecutively numbered excerpts from one work by one composer

• Do not make name/uniform title added entries for:

  1. twenty-five or fewer works requiring more than fifteen name/uniform title added entries

  2. pop, folk, ethnic, or jazz music collections

  3. recitals with an emphasis on performer or instruments rather than the music itself

  4. multi-part items incomplete at the time of cataloging

Added entries for two or more composers : without a collective title

(LCRI 21.7C) Main entry is under name and uniform title for the first work (100/240)
When there are fifteen or fewer musical works requiring two or more name/uniform title headings, follow these guidelines:

• Make one name/uniform title added entry for:

  1. one work by one composer

  2. one excerpt from one work by one composer

  3. two or more consecutively numbered excerpts from one work by one composer

  4. three or more unnumbered or nonconsecutively numbered excerpts from one work by one composer

  5. three or more works by one composer (enter under a collective uniform title under the name of the composer)

• Make two name/uniform title added entries for:

  1. two works by one composer

  2. two unnumbered or nonconsecutively numbered excerpts from one work by one composer

• Do not make name/uniform title added entries for:

  1. twenty-five or fewer works requiring more than fifteen name/uniform title added entries

  2. pop, folk, ethnic, or jazz music collections

  3. recitals with an emphasis on performer or instruments rather than the music itself

  4. multi-part items incomplete at the time of cataloging

Make added entries from within any one of these categories in the order in which they appear in the transcribed areas of bibliographic record (LCRI 21.29)

Regardless of where personal names or titles or corporate names are found within the 245, 250, 260, and 5XX fields, they are entered in the 7XX fields in the following order:
° Personal name headings precede personal name/title headings.
  Within personal name/title headings, headings for related works precede headings for analytical titles.
° Corporate name headings follow any personal name or personal name/title headings.
° Corporate name/title headings follow.
° Uniform title headings precede any related or analytical title as added entry.

Added entries within each of these categories are given in the order in which they appear in the 245, 250, 260, and 5XX fields.

1. Personal name alone      each heading given in the order in which the name appears in 245, 250, and 5XX fields	700 0_, 700 1_
2. Personal name/title:      a. related title (the work is not included in the sound recording)           each heading given in the order in which the name and title appears in the 245, 250, and 5XX fields.      b. analytical title (the work is included in the sound recording)           each heading given in the order in which the name and title appears in the 245, 250, and 5XX fields.	700 0_, 700 1_ 700 02, 700 12
3. Corporate name alone      each heading given in the order in which the name appears in the 245, 250, 260, and 5XX fields.	710 1_, 710 2_
4. Corporate name/analytical title      each heading given in the order in which the name and title appears in the 245, 250, and 5XX fields.	710 12, 710 22
5. Uniform title      each heading given in the order in it appears in the 245, 250, and 5XX fields.	730 0_, 730 02
6. Title      each title given in the order in it appears in the 245, 250, and 5XX fields.      generally add titles that are "distinctive" in nature.	740 0_, 740 02

Comments to Mickey Koth Yale University Music Library
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