ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <!-- USMARC relator codes --> <TITLE>USMARC relator codes</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="CD9B9B"> <CENTER> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><B><A HREF="musicat.htm">Music Cataloging at Yale</A></B> <IMG ALIGN="Middle" SRC="http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/music1.gif"> <B><A HREF="musicat.htm#MARC">MARC Tagging</A></B></FONT> </CENTER> <CENTER> <H3> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=3>USMARC relator codes used in music cataloging</FONT> </H3> </CENTER> <P> <HR NOSHADE Color="#408080"> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> A relator code is a three-character code that identifies the relationship of a main, series, subject, or added entry to the work. &nbsp;These codes are used subfield <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>&#135;</FONT>4 in the following USMARC fields:</FONT> <TABLE Border=0 BGColor="white" Width="100%"> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD><CENTER> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> 100, 110, 111</FONT> </CENTER> </TD> <TD><CENTER> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> 600, 610, 611</FONT> </CENTER> </TD> <TD><CENTER> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> 700, 710, 711</FONT> </CENTER> </TD> <TD><CENTER> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> 800, 810, 811</FONT> </CENTER> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> 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 cataloging music materials are also included. For the full list of relator codes and their definitions, see <A HREF="http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/">MARC Code List: Relator Codes--Term Sequence</A><BR> <BR> This subfield is repeatable. Multiple codes may be used as needed. For example, use <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>&#135;</FONT>4 cmp <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>&#135;</FONT>4 itr for a person who is both the composer and the pianist for a work represented in the bibliographic record. <BR> <BR> <HR NOSHADE Color="#408080"> </FONT> <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING="2" BGColor="#408080"> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top" Width="5%"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>act</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top" Width="15%"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Actor</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>adp</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Adapter:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person who (1) <I>reworks</I> [emphasis added] a musical composition, usually for a different medium, or (2) rewrites novels or stories for motion pictures or other audiovisual medium.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>arr</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Arranger:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> A person who <I>transcribes</I> [emphasis added] a musical composition, usually for a different medium from that of the original; in an arrangement in which the musical substance remains essentially unchanged.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>aud</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Author of dialog</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>aus</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Author of screenplay</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>aut</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Author</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>chr</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Choreographer</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>cmp</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Composer:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person or organization who creates a musical work, usually a piece of music in manuscript or printed form.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>cnd</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Conductor:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person who directs a performing group (orchestra, chorus, opera, etc.) [not the same a drt Director]</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>com</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Compiler:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person or organization who produces a work or publication by selecting and putting together material from the works of various persons or bodies.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>cst</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Costume designer</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>dnc</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Dancer</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>drt</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Director</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>edt</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Editor:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>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.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>flm</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Film editor</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>itr</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Instrumentalist:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person or organization who principally plays an instrument in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>lbt</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Librettist:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>The writer of the text of an opera, oratorio, etc.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>lyr</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Lyricist:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>The writer of the text of a song.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>mcp</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Music copyist:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person who transcribes or copies musical notation</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>msd</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Musical director:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person responsible for basic music decisions about a production, including coordinating the work of the composer, the sound editor, and sound mixers, selecting musicians, and organizing and/or conducting sound for rehearsals and performances</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>mus</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Musician:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person or organization who performs music or contributes to the musical content of a work when it is not possible or desirable to identify the function more precisely</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>nrt</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Narrator:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>The speaker who relates the particulars of an act, occurrence, or course of events. (Also, the speaker in a musical work with spoken words)</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>prf</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Performer:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>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)</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>pro</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Producer</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>rce</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Recording engineer</FONT></TD> <TD><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person or organization who supervises the technical aspects of a sound or video recording session</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>rcd</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Recordist:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person or organization who uses a recording device to capture sounds and/or video during a recording session, including field recordings of natural sounds, folkloric events, music, etc.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>sce</FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>Scenarist</FONT></TD> <TD></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>sng</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Singer:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> A person or organization who uses his/her/their voice with or without instrumental accompaniment to produce music. A performance may or may not include actual words</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>trl</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Translator:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2>A person who renders a text from one language into another, or from an older form of a language into the modern form.</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>voc</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Vocalist:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> A person or organization who principally exhibits singing skills in a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR BGColor="#ffffff"> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>wam</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><FONT COLOR="Blue"><B>Writer of accompanying material:</B></FONT></FONT></TD> <TD Valign="top"><FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2> A person or organization who writes significant material which accompanies a sound recording or other audiovisual material</FONT></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=2><I>Note</I>: LC is not using the "itr" for instrumentalist or "voc" for vocalist. <BR> <I>Note</I> 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). </FONT> <HR Size=-1 NOSHADE Color="#408080"> <A HREF="musicat.htm"><IMG SRC="music3.gif" WIDTH="30" HEIGHT="30" ALIGN="Left" ALT="[Return to Music Cataloging at Yale]"></A> <FONT FACE="Verdana" Size=1>Comments to <A HREF="mailto:michelle.koth@yale.edu">Mickey Koth</A> Yale University Music Library<BR> Last revised March 5, 2013.</FONT> </BODY></HTML>