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.

Abanera

(Italian); use habanera.

Arioso/Ariosos

TYPE (English); used as a type for vocal works; for other works, apply MCD 25.27A1, footnote 10. a piece in a songlike style; use for vocal and instrumental works and short arias so titled not part of a larger recitative. LCCN 87-753030

Ave Maria

TYPE (Latin); liturgical (see note 3); LCNAF no 98019175

Cadence

(French); use cadenza when used as the title of an independent work.

Cadencia

(Spanish); use cadenza when used as the title of an independent work.

Cadenza/Cadenzas

TYPE (English, Italian); use as a type only when applied to the title of an independent work; not considered a type of composition when applied to cadenzas within concertos; use for Cadence, Cadencia, Kadenz. LCNAF n 8263348. Also used as a collective title for collections of a composer's cadenzas written to accompany three or more separate concertos, etc., by the same or other composers. LCCN 86751371

Canzoneta

(Spanish); use canzonetta.

Canzonetta/Canzonettas

TYPE (English, Italian); late 16th-century Italian part-song; use for works of Italian origin or influence. also used for solo songs and instrumental pieces of a songlike nature; use for canzoneta, canzonette, kantsonetta, Kanzonette. LCNAF n89-646645

Canzonette

(French, German); use canzonetta.

Chanson/Chansons

TYPE (French); a term meaning song in all its uses; spanning a wide range of periods and genres from the troubadour/trouvère repertoires through the secular polyphony of the 14th to 16th centuries to the art song of the 19th and 20th centuries and folk and popular song of all eras. See song for treatment. Use for miscellaneous sets, e.g. Le Jeune, Claude. [Chansons. Selections] or specific collections, e.g., Ravel, Maurice. [Chansons. Nicolette], Janequin, Clément. [Chansons (1528). Réveillez vous, cueurs endormis]; apply LCRI 25.27A1 footnote 10 to instrumental works. LCNAF n92-188

Chœur

(French); use chorus.

Chor    

(German); use chorus.

Chorinho/Chorinhos

TYPE (Spanish); various meanings in Brazilian popular music, generically denoting urban instrumental ensemble music, often with one group member as a soloist, consisted mostly of dances of European origin performed at popular festivities; use this form when it is the composer's original title; see also choro.

Choro/Choros

TYPE (Spanish); various meanings in Brazilian popular music, generically denoting urban instrumental ensemble music, often with one group member as a soloist, consisted mostly of dances of European origin performed at popular festivities; use this form when it is the composer's original title; see also chorinho.

Chorus/Choruses

TYPE (English); use for Chor, chœur, coro, khor. LCNAF n 84012213.

Coro    

(Italian, Spanish); use chorus.

Cracoviak

(French); use Krakowiak.

Cracoviana

(Italian, Spanish); use Krakowiak.

Cracovienne

(English, French); use Krakowiak.

Ecossaise/Ecossaises

TYPE (English, French, Hungarian); use for chotis, écossaise, escocesa, Schottische, scozzese. LCNAF n85-296650

Écossaise

(French); use Ecossaise.

Élégie

(French); use elegy (for instrumental works only); distinctive title for non-instrumental works.

Episode

DISTINCTIVE (English, French, German) LCCN 91-751599

Épisode

DISTINCTIVE (French)

Estudio/Estudios

TYPE (Spanish); use this form when it is the composer's original title. See also etiud, etude, étude, Etüde, studie, studio, study. LCNAF n91-124049

Etiud/Etiudy

TYPE (Russian); use this form when it is the composer's original title. See also estudio, etude, étude, Etüde, studie, studio, study. LCNAF n87-810719

Etude/Etudes

TYPE (English, French); use this form when it is the composer's original title. See also estudio, etiud, étude, Etüde, studie, studio, study. LCNAF n82-1180

Étude/Études

TYPE (French); use this form when it is the composer's original title. See also estudio, etiud, etude, Etüde, studie, studio, study.

Etüde/Etüden

TYPE (German); use this form when it is the composer's original title. See also estudio, etiud, etude, étude, studie, studio, study. LCNAF n87-119084

Habanera/Habaneras

TYPE (English, French, German, Spanish); use for abanera, khabanera, khavanez, havanaise. LCCN 95-751750

Havanaise

(French); use habanera.

Intermède/Intermèdes

TYPE (French); use when this is the title of a character piece; do not apply this treatment to an independent stage work whose title begins with or includes the word intermède; intermèdes that are performed between the acts of a stage work follow rule 25.32; use for intermedio, intermedium. LCNAF n 2001064780

Intermedio

(Italian, Spanish); use intermède.

Intermedium

(Italian); use intermède.

Kadenz

(French); use cadenza when used as the title of an independent work.

Kantsonetta

(Russian); use canzonetta.

Kanzonette

(German); use canzonetta.

Khabanera

(Russian); use habanera.

Khavanez

(Russian); use habanera.

Khor    

(Russian); use chorus.

Krakovi'ak

(Hungarian); use Krakowiak.

Krakov'k

(Russian); use Krakowiak.

Krakowiak/Krakowiaks

DISTINCTIVE (German, Italian) LCNAF n82-242544

TYPE (English, German, Polish); Polish folk dance characterized by syncopated rhythms in fast duple time; use for cracoviak, cracoviana, cracovienne, krakovi'ak, krakoviak

Largetto

(Russian); use larghetto.

Larghetto/Larghettos

TYPE (English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish); use for largetto. LCCN n 88640435

Lullaby/Lullabies; Lullabye/Lullabyes

TYPE (English); use the composer's original spelling. LCNAF n84-40821

Milonga/Milongas

TYPE (Spanish); a traditional song genre of Uruguay and Argentina; an Argentinian dance, forerunner of the tango; a piece of music for this dance; use for both vocal and instrumental works.

Moderato/Moderatos

TYPE (Italian) LCNAF n 82224301

Oberek/Oberki

TYPE (Polish); Polish folk dance in triple time. no 97077942

Part song/Part songs; Part-song/Part-songs; Partsong/Partsongs (provisional entry)

TYPE (English); a work in two or more voice parts without independent accompaniment; (however, some works may be accompanied). The problems with this type of composition continue to be unresolved. The first problem is the form of the name of the type. Until a definitive policy is issued, use the spelling the composer used. The second problem is medium of performance. Although "part song" is not included in the list of types of composition with implied medium of performance in 25.30B1a, the New Grove definition of the type lends credence to applying 25.30B1a. Examples in the authority file are inconsistent in stating the medium of performance. Until this problem is resolved, follow the treatment in established headings for a composer's works.

Processional/Processionals

DISTINCTIVE (English) LCNAF n 2003084190
TYPE (English) LCNAF n 2006078119

Recessional/Recessionals

DISTINCTIVE (English) LCNAF n 2006064375
TYPE (English) LCCN 94703730

Quartet movement

DISTINCTIVE (English) LCCN no 99026255

Scherzando/Scherzandos

TYPE (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) LCNAF n 2004144266

Serenade/Serenades

TYPE (English, French); instrumental composition of the 18th and 19th centuries; use for serenada, serenata; see also Ständchen. LCNAF n81-112131

Ständchen

TYPE (German); the title meaning "serenade" often given to multi-movement instrumental compositions; use this form when it is the composer's original title; possibly distinctive when a vocal work; see also serenade. LCCN n 95027103

Studie/Studien

TYPE (German); use this form when it is the composer's original title; see also estudio, etiud, etude, étude, Etüde, studio, study. LCNAF n80-125202

Studio/Studi

TYPE (Italian); use this form when it is the composer's original title; see also estudio, etiud, etude, étude, Etüde, studie, study. LCCN 86-752847

Study/Studies

TYPE (English); use this form when it is the composer's original title; see also estudio, etiud, etude, étude, Etüde, studie, studio. LCNAF n84-164408

Toccatella/Toccatellas

TYPE (English, Italian); use for toccatelle. LCCN 96700777

Toccatelle

(French); use toccatella.

Vivace/Vivaces

TYPE (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian) LCCN 84758900

Zwiefacher/Zwiefache

TYPE (German); a German folk dance with regular alternation between duple and triple meter. LCNAF nr2006005717

Comments to Michelle Koth, Catalog Librarian, Yale University Music Library
Last revised March 7, 2007.