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.

Cançoneta

(Portuguese); use canzonetta.

Canzona/Canzonas

TYPE (English, Italian, Spanish); originally a Provençal troubadour song; later, a piece of 16th-century Italian secular music, 16th- to 17th-century instrumental work; in this usage, not a cognate of canzone; use canzona when a work of this type was originally titled canzone; use for canzon, kantsona, Kanzone. LCNAF n87-110288

Canzonetta/Canzonettas

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

Choralvorspiel/Choralvorspiele; Choral-Vorspiel/Choral-Vorspiele

TYPE (German); use this form when it is the composer's original title;apply 25.30B1a: do not add a statement of medium of performance if the medium is implied by the title. Implied medium: organ; see also chorale prelude, prélude de choral. LCNAF n88-642589

Dance/Dances

TYPE (English); use for danse, danza, tánc, tanets, taniec, Tanz. LCNAF n82-101545

Division/Divisions

TYPE (English); a 17th-century English technique of improvised variation over a ground, written out for didactic or performance purposes; treatment as a type is not limited to 17th-century works; see also divisions on a ground. LCNAF n 2003080154

Divisions on a ground

TYPE (English); a 17th-century English technique of improvised variation over a ground, written out for didactic or performance purposes; use this form when the composer's original title includes the phrase "on a ground"; treatment as a type is not limited to 17th-century works; see also division. LCNAF no 98001401

Fokstrot

(Russian); use foxtrot.

Fox trot

(English); use foxtrot.

Fox-trot

(English, French, Spanish); use foxtrot.

Fox-trott

(Italian); use foxtrot.

Foxtrot/Foxtrots

TYPE (English); 20th-century American social dance in 4/4; use for fokstrot, fox trot, fox-trot, fox-trott, Foxtrott. LCNAF n 2004067678

Foxtrott

(German); use foxtrot.

Kantsona

(Russian); use canzona.

Kanzone

(German); use canzona.

Marcietta/Marciettas

TYPE (English); diminutive form of "marcia;" use for works in the form of a march.

Nachtstück

DISTINCTIVE (German); do not translate to "nocturne" in uniform title. LCNAF n 2006056505

Night piece/Nightpiece

DISTINCTIVE (English); do not translate to "nocturne" in uniform title. LCNAF n 96082811

Taniec

(Polish); use dance.

Comments to Michelle Koth, Catalog Librarian, Yale University Music Library
Last revised November 14, 2007.