This document lists the additions or changes to the list of Types of compositions for use in music uniform titles, the Final report of the Working Group on Types of Compositions. Additions or changes to existing entries are added in bold blue. Deletions are struck out bold. New entries are in plain, black type.

Cavatina/Cavatinas

DISTINCTIVE TYPE (English, Italian, Spanish); originally signified a short opera aria; now an aria-like vocal piece or a song-like instrumental work; use for independent works titled as such, not for individual cavatinas within operas; use for cavatine, kavatina, Kavatine. LCNAF n94-71214 LCCN 90-750321

Cavatine

DISTINCTIVE (French); use cavatina. LCNAF no97-64145

Dal/Dalok

TYPE (Hungarian); use as a type only when applied to vocal works; see Song for treatment; apply MCD 25.27A1 footnote 10 when applied to instrumental works. LCNAF n91-35082

Guajira/Guajiras

TYPE (Spanish); a Cuban narrative song form, usually in 6/8 alternating with 3/4; used as a type for vocal works; for other works, apply MCD 25.27A1, footnote 10. LCNAF n2001-68424

Harmonie

DISTINCTIVE (French, German); use harmony.

Harmony/Harmonies

TYPE DISTINCTIVE (English); use for works for wind instruments or a small wind band (oboes, horns, bassoons, etc.); use for harmonie, Harmonie. LCCN 94-704205

Invention/Inventions

TYPE (English, French, German); use for invención, invento, inventsiia, invenzione. LCNAF n81-134769

Invento

(Spanish); use invention.

Kavatina

DISTINCTIVE (Russian); use cavatina.

Kavatine

DISTINCTIVE (German); use cavatina.

Laulu/Laulut

TYPE (Finnish); use as a type only when applied to vocal works; see Song for treatment; apply MCD MCD 25.27A1, footnote 10 when applied to instrumental works. LCNAF n90-721764

Madrigal/Madrigals

TYPE (English, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish); use for vocal works of this type; when an instrumental work is titled "Madrigal," treat this title as distinctive. Use for madrigaal, madrigale, madrygal. LCCN 87-753554

Maestoso

TYPE (Italian) LCNAF nr00-29108

Piva     

TYPE (Italian); a 15th- and 16th-century Italian dance

Rechitativ

(Russian); use recitative.

Récitatif

(French); use recitative.

Recitative/Recitatives

TYPE (English, French); use for both instrumental and vocal works; use for rechitativ, récitatif, recitativo, Rezitativ. LCCN 87-770023

Scherzando/Scherzandos

TYPE (English, Italian) LCNAF n99-29398

Song/Songs

TYPE (English); use for vocal works of this type in English; when an instrumental work is titled "Song," treat this title as distinctive. For vocal works, apply 25.30B1 a): do not add a medium of performance for works with the initial title element Songs, Lieder, etc. unless it differs from the implied medium of solo voice(s) with acc. for keyboard instrument (this does not apply to songs in a popular medium). Apply 25.30B10: accompaniment for works with the initial title element Songs, Lieder, etc.: when the work is accompanied by any medium other than a keyboard instrument, add the name(s) of the instrument(s) followed by "acc." If the work is unaccompanied, add "unacc." as the medium of performance. Use only for miscellaneous sets, e.g., [Songs], [Songs. Selections] and specific collections, e.g., [Songs, op. 14], [Songs. op. 56. Maid sings light]. For other languages see, e.g., canción, canzone, chanson, dal, Gesang, laulu, Lied, melodie, pesnia, pisen, romance. LCNAF n85-139914

Symphoniette

(English, French); use sinfonietta.

Tune/Tunes

TYPE (English) LCNAF n78-67341

Zwischenspiel/Zwischenspiele

TYPE (German) LCCN 86-753796

Comments to Michelle Koth, Catalog Librarian, Yale University Music Library
Last revised March 4, 2009.