Best Practices for Cataloging

Using RDA and MARC21

Version 1.0.11 1 April 2014

Prepared by the RDA Music Implementation Task Force, Bibliographic Control Committee, Music Library Association

1 Includes minor corrections and incorporates the scheduled April 2014 updates to the RDA Toolkit. Best Practices for Music Cataloging – version 1.0.1, 4/1/14

RDA Music Implementation Task Force Members

Casey Mullin, chair Stanford University Mary Huismann University of Minnesota Damian Iseminger New England Conservatory of Music Nancy Lorimer Stanford University Daniel Paradis Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec Raymond Schmidt Wellesley College Hermine Vermeij University of California—Los Angeles

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Table of Contents Background ...... 4 Purpose and Scope...... 4 Use of this Document ...... 5 Section 1. Recording Attributes of Manifestation & Item ...... 6 Chapter 1. General Guidelines on Recording Attributes of Manifestations and Items ...... 6 Chapter 2. Identifying Manifestations and Items ...... 8 Chapter 3. Describing Carriers ...... 34 Chapter 3, Appendix. Guidelines for Describing and Encoding Attributes of Audio Recording Carriers ...... 44 Chapter 4. Providing Acquisition and Access Information ...... 54 Section 2. Recording Attributes of Work & Expression ...... 55 Chapter 5. General Guidelines on Recording Attributes of Works and Expressions ...... 55 Chapter 6. Identifying Works and Expressions ...... 56 Chapter 7. Describing Content ...... 72 Section 3. Recording Attributes of Person, Family & Corporate Body ...... 79 Chapter 11. Identifying Corporate Bodies ...... 79 Section 5. Recording Primary Relationships Between Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item ...... 80 Chapter 17. General Guidelines on Recording Primary Relationships ...... 80 Section 6. Recording Relationships to Persons, Families, & Corporate Bodies ...... 81 Chapter 18. General Guidelines on Recording ...... 81 Relationships to Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Resource ...... 81 Chapter 19. Persons, Families, & Corporate Bodies Associated with a Work ...... 82 Chapter 20. Persons, Families, & Corporate Bodies Associated with an Expression ...... 84 Section 8. Recording Relationships between Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items ... 85 Chapter 24. General Guidelines on Recording Relationships between Works, Expressions, Manifestations, and Items ...... 85 Chapter 25. Related Work ...... 86 Chapter 26. Related Expression ...... 88 Chapter 27. Related Manifestation ...... 89 Appendices ...... 90 Appendix D. Record Syntaxes for Descriptive Data ...... 90 Complete MARC Record Examples ...... 101

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Background

The RDA Music Implementation Task Force was formed in September 2011. Its charge2 comprises several tasks, three of which are fulfilled in the present document:

1. Create music-related best practices documentation to supplement Resource Description and Access (RDA)3. 2. Make recommendations regarding the relationship between the MLA music-related best practices document and other official RDA policies such as the Library of Congress/Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements (LC-PCC PS) and other decisions disseminated by PCC. 3. Create complete examples for scores, audio recordings, musical works, and musical expressions.4

Purpose and Scope

These best practices guidelines should:

 Provide sufficient guidance for creating and enhancing both basic descriptions (“core records”) and more robust descriptions of musical resources and the musical works and expressions embodied therein. In MARC21, these descriptions take the form of bibliographic and authority records.  Be comprehensible and useful to both catalogers transitioning from an AACR2 environment and newly-trained catalogers.  Be usable as the b