Cataloging at Yale Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

Call numbers || Music cataloging resources || RDA || Preferred titles || MARC
AACR2 || Authority control and NACO || Subject cataloging || Sound recording cataloging || Videorecording cataloging
ORBIS and OCLC || Language tools || Biographical sources: on the web || in print || Bindery and marking
Other music cataloging sites || Online catalogs || WorldCat || Grove music online (Yale IP addresses only) ||

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• LC classification: Class M in progress || Class M chart
• From LC: Outlines of the LC Classification schedules: Class M (PDF) || Class M glossary and general guidelines (PDF)
• Class numbers for:
  • instrumental music: Solo music: M6-M175 || Duets: M180-M298.5 || Trios-nonets: M300-M990 || Orchestra/string orchestra/band: M1000/M1100/M1200, etc.
    Solo instrument(s) with orchestra/string orchestra: M1005/M1105, etc. || Instrumental instruction and study
  • vocal music: Choral music and dramatic music: M1500/M2000, etc. || Vocal ensembles: M1528/M2018, etc. || Solo vocal music: M1611/M2102, etc.
• Guide to music classification numbers from Indiana University
• Shelflisting and cuttering in Class M by Renee McBride
• Cutter numbers: Using the Cutter-Sanborn Three-Figure Author Table
  cutter numbers for: Composers: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | V | W | XYZ
  Titles || Publisher || Cutter numbers for M class numbers that are subarranged by cutter number: ML 102, etc.
• Local practice in Class M ° Size || Local practice in cutter numbers
• Call numbers: for scores || for books || Call numbers in Voyager vs. on the item
• Sound recordings classification
  • Classifying music CDs: unearthing the collection by Angela Kroeger & Jan Boyer
  • The ANSCR [alpha-numeric system for classification of recordings] classification system for sound recordings

• Music cataloging training
  • Music cataloging exercises and answers
  • Q & A columns by Jay Weitz from the MOUG Newsletter
    • Columns up through 2004 published in the book Cataloger's judgment : music cataloging questions and answers from the Music OCLC Users Group newsletter / Jay Weitz ... Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004. ISBN 1591580528
    • Columns after this date, from newsletters more than a year old, are online at www.musicoclcusers.org/newsletter.html (from November 1989 through December 2008)
• Table of musical pitches (click on a key in the keyboard diagram to sound that pitch)
• When is a flute not a flute, by David Lasocki
• Musical instrument ranges
• How to read Elizabethan and German lute tablature
• Music terminology and symbols: Basic glossary of musical forms || Dolmetsch music dictionary online || Virginia Tech multimedia music dictionary
  Dolmetsch musical symbols: explanation of musical notation, some with equivalents in other languages || Music terminology
  Italian musical terminology      (see also Music-specific language tools)
• Information about vocal music: Vocal ranges || What does SATB mean? || Song cycles || The Lied and art song texts page || Parts of the mass
• Online liner notes for the following labels: Albany Records, Artifact Recordings, Cedille Records, Cold Blue Music, CRI, Deep Listening, Frog Peak Music, Innova Recordings, Mutable Music, New World Records, New York University, Pogus Productions, XI Records
• When to create a new bibliographic record for music (see also What constitutes a new edition of a work?)
• Guidelines for determining proper format for scores and score-like material
• Reference works used at LC (current through 2002; from Indiana University)
• Classics from the silver screen || Classical theme music in radio, TV and film || The classic TV database
• Pronouncing dictionary of music and musicians (from WOI Radio at Iowa State University)

Music-specific or emphasizing notated and performed music

• A brief overview of some of the changes from AACR2 to RDA (in progress)
• Transcription (RDA 1.7)
• Preferred source of information (RDA 2.2)
• Recording titles (RDA 2.3)
• Title proper
• Parallel title proper
• Other title information and other parallel title information
• Variant title
• Recording statement of responsibility for titles (RDA 2.4)
• Content, media, and carrier type (RDA 6.9, 3.2, 3.3 & MARC 336-338)
• Extent and dimensions for notated music and text (from RDA 3.4 & 3.5)
• Recording edition statement (RDA 2.5)
• Recording production, publication, distribution & manufacture statements and copyright date (RDA 2.7-2.11)
• Describing content (from RDA chapter 7)
• Presentations
• RDA Preconference, 2013 MLA meeting
• RDA Preconference, 2011 MLA meeting
• A brief introduction to RDA for scores & sound recordings by Nancy Lorimer
• RDA and sound recordings—a cataloging workshop by Kathy Glennan
• RDA: a hands-on interaction (a series of PPT documents) presented at the 2011 Music Library Association annual meeting
• MARC changes for RDA (PDF) presented by Kathy Glennan at the 2010 Music Library Association annual meeting
• Significant changes for cataloging music: AACR2 vs. RDA (PDF) presented by Daniel Paradis at the 2010 Music Library Association annual meeting
• RDA deferred issues of interest to the music community (PDF) presented by Mark Scharff at the 2010 Music Library Association annual meeting
• Medium of performance thesaurus: proposed by LC and MLA

General

• Names
  • Persons
  • Recording names (RDA 8.4-8.5)
  • Choosing and recording preferred and variant names for persons (RDA 9.0-9.18, 9.2.3)
  • Surnames that include an article and/or preposition (RDA F.11)
• Examples of MARC RDA record (JSC) (in RDA Toolkit)
• Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA
• RDA essentials (ppt presentation with speaker notes) by Judith Kuhagen, presented November 4, 2010 at the 119th Connecticut Library Association Conference
• Changes from AACR2 to RDA: a comparison of examples (PDF, revised May 2011) by Adam Schiff.
• RDA in MARC

• AACR2:
• Outline and updates, additions, changes, etc. for Uniform Titles for Music
• List of types of compositions for use in music uniform titles
• Numbers in music uniform titles
• RDA:
• Recording preferred titles for works (RDA 6.2)
• Recording date and place of origin of works (RDA 6.4-6.5)
• Recording date, language, and other distinguishing characteristics of expression (RDA 6.10-6.11)
• Recording medium of performance for musical works (RDA 6.15)
• Recording numeric designation for musical works (RDA 6.16)
• Recording key for musical works (RDA 6.17)
• Recording other distinguishing characteristic of the expression of musical works (RDA 6.18)
• Access points representing musical works (RDA 6.28.1.1-6.28.1.8)
• Additions to access points representing musical works (RDA 6.28.1.9-6.28.1.11)
• Authorized access point representing a part or parts of a musical work (RDA 6.28.2)
• Access points representing musical expressions (RDA 6.28.3)
• Work numbers for uniform titles for composers whose works are assigned numbers other than opus numbers or in addition to opus numbers
• Sources of information
• Thematic indexes used in the Library of Congress/NACO authority file (What the heck is a thematic index?)
• Online resources for uniform titles
  • Dictionary of musical themes (aka Barlow and Morgenstern) || Themefinder composers' works lists
  • Composers' worklists on the web || in published scores, books, and periodicals
    • Britten thematic catalogue (BETA version; not yet finalized)
    • Neue Mozart-Ausgabe online
  • Sources for uniform titles for vocal music in progress
  • Online publishers' catalogs
  • Multiple composers by instrument or genre
  • Pazdírek (Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur aller Zeiten und Völker) online; currently the Flip book (beta) format works the best
  • RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales): online catalog of RISM Series A/II: Music manuscripts after 1600
  • Hofmeister XIX: searchable database of Hofmeister monthly lists of music publications for the years 1829-1900
  • Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias
    • Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique v. 1 | v. 2 | v. 3 | v. 4 | v. 5 | v. 6 | v. 7 | v. 8 | v. 8 | suppl. 1 | suppl. 2
    • Muzykal'naia entsiklopediia (in Cyrillic)
  • Catalogs of music manuscripts
    • Répertoire international des sources musicales (RISM); mostly music manuscripts from before 1800; includes incipits
    • Catalogue of manuscript music in the British Museum; vol. 3, Instrumental music, treatises, etc., 1909 (online version from Internet Archive)
    • RISM: music manuscripts held in libraries in United States (post-1600) || United Kingdom and Ireland || Switzerland || Italy

Music-specific

• MARC tagging for scores: fixed field codes (Voyager 008 and Leader) || variable fields
• MARC tagging for sound recordings: fixed field codes (Voyager 008 and Leader) || Physical description (Voyager 007) || variable fields
• MARC tagging for books:  fixed field codes (Voyager 008 and Leader) || variable fields
• 010 field: LCCN
• 024 field: ISMN || UPC and other codes
• 028 field: Publisher and plate number for scores || Manufacturer's number for sound recordings
• 033 field: Date and place of capture     ° Geographical area and sub-area codes for the 033 field
• 041 field: Language code for sung or spoken text and accompanying material
• 045 field: Codes for time period of content (date(s) of composition)
• 047 field and fixed field: Codes for form of composition
• 048 field: Codes for instruments/voices/ensembles § Quick guide to alphabetical list of codes
• 264 field: RDA Recording production, publication, distribution, and manufacture statements and copyright date
• 336-338 fields
• 380-384 fields
• Relator codes (those used in bibliographic records for scores, sound recordings, and video recordings)
• MARC holdings and local practice

General

• Filing indicators/characters
  • Counting non-filing characters in MARC 21 bibliographic records (LC)
  • Change in practice for counting non-filing characters in MARC 21 (LC)
  • Filing indicators (Yale)
• 246 field
• Dates and date codes in the fixed field
• LC documentation
  • MARC 21 for authority data
  • MARC 21 encoding to accommodate new RDA elements 046 and 3XX in NARs and SARs
  • MARC 21 for bibliographic data: 00X (control fields) | 01X-09X (numbers and codes) | 1XX (main entries) | 2XX (titles, editions, imprints, etc.) | 3XX (extent, etc.)
    4XX (series statements) | 5XX (notes) | 6XX (subject access) | 7XX (added and linking entries) | 8XX (series added entries, holdings, etc.)
  • Country codes Code sequence || Name sequence
  • Geographic area codes Code sequence || Name sequence
  • Language codes Code sequence || Name sequence
• OCLC documentation
  • Authority record format
  • Bibliographic formats and standards || RDA in MARC

RDA RDA in NACO training MARC Tags & RDA elements for personal, family, and corporate body names (in RDA Toolkit) Examples of MARC RDA record (JSC) (in RDA Toolkit) Elements of name authority records 008 field for name authority records Authority control at Yale Yale policy for series authority records Heading validation in Voyager tutorial Searching for authority records in Voyager LC Authority File on the web

From LC: NACO normalization rules FAQs: ° General NACO || ° 670 field NACO participants' manual, 3rd ed. Archives of PCCLIST RDA in NACO training Summary of Programmatic Changes to the LC/NACO Authority File: What LC-PCC RDA Catalogers need to know

NACO-Music Project NACO-Music Project A handbook of examples for use in authority records created by the NACO-Music Project Note: If you have trouble viewing this web page in Firefox, in your browser, go to View, select Character encoding, and change the selected character encoding to Unicode UTF-8 or Unicode UTF-16, whichever is not currently selected NMP BFM requests and queries Archives of NMP-L (from November 2001 to present only)

Music-specific

• Subject headings for: instrumental music || Vocal music || Subject subdivisions and qualifiers for music subject headings
• List of music instruction sheets in the Subject cataloging manual: Subject headings (SCM)
• Headings and subdivisions for musical works Geraldine Ostrove, CPSO
• Local practice in 6XX fields
• The order of instruments in subject headings Note change in order for accordion and celesta from percussion to keyboard instruments
• Coding for form and topic subdivisions in subject headings for musical compositions and books about music
• Chronological and geographic subdivisions for subject headings for jazz and popular music
• Those darn chorus subject headings
• Subject headings for vocal music: choruses vs. cantatas || vocal ensembles || songs vs. solo cantatas
• Genre/form headings
  • LC documentation
    • FAQs about LC genre/form headings (not music-specific)
    • Genre/form headings for musical works
  • Genre/Form Task Force MLA Subject Access Subcommittee of the Bibliographical Control Committee
  • Music genre/form/medium project public wiki
  • LCSH topical headings usable as form/genre headings (privately maintained list based on the Library of Congress subject headings weekly lists

General

• Library of Congress subject headings weekly lists || Library of Congress classification weekly lists
• SACO participants' manual from LC
• Use of ‡v and ‡x subfield for form subdivisions in subject headings from University of Southern Mississippi

• Biographical sources for sound recordings in progress
• Cataloging 78 RPM recordings in progress
  • Local practices for 78 RPM recording cataloging
  • The history of 78 RPM recordings: a brief guide to aid in cataloging
• Discographical sources for 78 RPM recordings in progress
• Historical information (to aid in cataloging only)
  • Audio time line
  • Retro media: memory (and memories) lost
• LC documentation
  • New sound recording formats (PDF)
• MARC tagging
  • Fixed field codes: Voyager (008 and Leader)
  • Physical description codes: Voyager (007)
  • The 024 field: UPC code
  • The 028 field: Manufacturer's number
  • The 033 field: Date and place of capture     ° Geographical area and sub-area codes for the 033 field
• Q & A columns by Jay Weitz from the MOUG Newsletter
  • Columns up through 2004 published in the book Cataloger's judgment : music cataloging questions and answers from the Music OCLC Users Group newsletter / Jay Weitz ... Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004. ISBN 1591580528
  • Columns after this date, from newsletters more than a year old, are online at www.musicoclcusers.org/newsletter.html (from November 1989 through December 2008)

• Video language coding: best practices: MARC 008/Lang and 041 field; includes some music cataloging examples

• Voyager diacritics and special characters arranged by name || language
• Searching special characters in Voyager
• Staff searching in Voyager

  Staff heading keyword searches in Voyager Types of staff searching in Voyager Indexes in Voyager

  Which staff heading index should I use? Searching for authority records in Voyager Searching music plate and publisher's numbers in Voyager

• Authority control in Voyager, presented at the Technical Services Roundtable at the 2003 meeting of the Music Library Association.
• Voyager Music Users Group (VMUG) (link not working as of November 2011)
• OCLC Documentation

  From OCLC: Bibliographic institution records (IRs); PDF Searching WorldCat user guide and reference card

  From Yale: OCLC searching cheat sheet OCLC Connexion basics

Music-specific

• Common terms used in German publications and thematic indices
• The names of numbers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish || other languages See also Wikipedia List of numbers in various languages
• The names of keys in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish See also English-Greek chord glossary
• The names of instruments and voices in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish
• Capitalization of key, opus, and number
• Online translating dictionaries for music (see also Music terminology)
  • Cadenza glossary: a multi-lingual dictionary of musical terms English, French, German, and Serbian
  • German-English/English-German music dictionary
  • Glossar für elektronische Musikinstrumente

General

• List of initial articles: by language from Yale Music Cataloging || complete list in alphabetical order from LC
• Bibliographic terms in other languages
  • Foreign language equivalents for bibliographic information (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish) and
    Glossary of bibliographic information by language (Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish)
• Distinguishing between Catalan and Spanish || Catalan-English dictionary || another one
• Fraktur
• Russian and other Cyrillic languages
  • ALA-LC transliteration tables: Russian (Cursive Russian) || Cyrillic language alphabets and how they diverge from one another || Online transliterator note: may not follow the ALA-LC transliteration schemes
• Woxikon translates words and word sequences in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish
• Online dictionaries: Travlang's translating dictionaries || A web of on-line dictionaries || Translutation || Reverso translation || Lingvosoft || Hungarian || Portuguese || Welsh | Welsh to English Lexicon
• Language identifier
• Behind the name: The etymology of first names || surnames

• Orbis cataloging manual: Manuscript music from Manuscript Unit, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
• Bates College
• Memorial University of Newfoundland Library
• Indiana University Music Library
• Penn State Music Cataloging

• Authority files
  • Library of Congress authorities
  • Virtual international authority file (authority files of 19 national libraries)
  • National Library of the Czech Republic
• United States
  • Academic libraries
  • Public libraries
  • Library of Congress
• National library catalogs
  • European library catalog portal
  • National Library of Canada AMICUS
  • Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
  • National Library of the Czech Republic
  • Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (simultaneous searches of books and serials in libraries of the region of Karlsruhe)
  • COPAC: Catalog of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland