MARC Tagging
MARC Tagging
The codes are those used for music cataloging
and those that LC uses for sound recordings (as noted in an e-mail message
to MLA-L on Jan. 19, 1991). Other codes that may be used in video cataloging
are also included. For the full list of relator codes and their definitions,
see MARC Code List:
Relator Codes--Term Sequence
This subfield is repeatable. Multiple codes may be used as needed. For example,
use ‡4 cmp
‡4 itr for a person who is both the
composer and the pianist for a work represented in the bibliographic record.
| act | Actor | |
| adp | Adapter: | A person who (1) reworks a musical composition, usually for a different medium, or (2) rewrites novels or stories for motion pictures or other audiovisual medium. |
| arr | Arranger: | A person who transcribes a musical composition, usually for a different medium from that of the original; in an arrangement in which the musical substance remains essentially unchanged. |
| aud | Author of dialog | |
| aus | Author of screenplay | |
| aut | Author | |
| chr | Choreographer | |
| cmp | Composer: | A person or organization who creates a musical work, usually a piece of music in manuscript or printed form. |
| cnd | Conductor: | A person who directs a performing group (orchestra, chorus, opera, etc.) [not the same a drt Director] |
| com | Compiler: | A person or organization who produces a work or publication by selecting and putting together material from the works of various persons or bodies. |
| cst | Costume designer | |
| dnc | Dancer | |
| drt | Director | |
| edt | Editor: | A person or organization who prepares for publication a work not primarily his/her own, such as by elucidating text, adding introductory or other critical matter, or technically directing an editorial staff. |
| flm | Film editor | |
| itr | Instrumentalist: | A person or organization who principally plays an instrument in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment. |
| lbt | Librettist: | The writer of the text of an opera, oratorio, etc. |
| lyr | Lyricist: | The writer of the text of a song. |
| nrt | Narrator: | The speaker who relates the particulars of an act, occurrence, or course of events. (Also, the speaker in a musical work with spoken words) |
| prf | Performer: | A person who exhibits musical or acting skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment, if specific codes for those functions (act, dnc, itr, voc, etc.) are not used. If specific codes are used, prf is used for a person whose principal skill is not known or specified. (Use cnd for a conductor and voc for a singer) |
| pro | Producer | |
| rce | Recording engineer | |
| sce | Scenarist | |
| trl | Translator: | A person who renders a text from one language into another, or from an older form of a language into the modern form. |
| voc | Vocalist: | A person or organization who principally exhibits singing skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment. |
| wam | Writer of accompanying material: | A person or organization who writes significant material which accompanies a sound recording or other audiovisual material. |
Note: LC is not using the "itr" for
instrumentalist or "voc" for vocalist.
Note that LC is not using relator codes in bibliographic records for
sound recordings for such persons as authors of screenplay (aus), compilers
(com), composers (cmp), directors (drt), editors (edt), instrumentalists
(itr), producers (pro), vocalists (voc), or writers of materials accompanying
a sound recording (wam).
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