Uniform titles

1. Bibliographic Control of Music Materials Session 2 Uniform titles L&IS 627: Spring 2009

2. Uniform Titles What are they and why do we need them? According to Richard Smiraglia: • Identify particular intellectual entity (Homer’s Illiad) • Collate the manifestations of the work that have appeared under differing titles proper • Distinguish among works that have similar bibliographic characteristics L&IS 627: Spring 2009

3. Uniform Titles There are three different types of music uniform titles • Distinctive works collocated under an original title • Form titles collocated under that name of type of composition • Collective titles (form, performance medium, mixed forms and media) L&IS 627: Spring 2009

4. Uniform Titles Everything you always wanted to know can be found in two places • AACR2, chapter 25 OR • OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/default.htm L&IS 627: Spring 2009

5. Uniform Titles Form titles • Example 1 Mozart wrote a symphony. It was the 41stsymphony he wrote. It is called: • Symphony 41 • Symphony #41 • 41st Symphony • Jupiter Symphony • Symphony in C Major What should we call it in our catalog record? L&IS 627: Spring 2009

6. Uniform Titles • Example 1 continued • [Symphonies,K. 551,C major] Let’s pick this apart: “symphonies” because he wrote more than one K.551, the Köchel number C major, the key signature L&IS 627: Spring 2009

7. Uniform Titles Distinctive Titles • Example 2 Stravinsky wrote a very famous ballet. We usually refer to it in this country as “The Rite of Spring.” But it’s also known as: Le Sacre du Printemps Vesna sviashchennaia L&IS 627: Spring 2009

8. Uniform Titles The official uniform title for this work is: [Vesna sviashchennaia] (that is what he called it, after all) L&IS 627: Spring 2009

9. Uniform Titles Distinctive Title with addition • Example 3 What’s that pesky opera called, the one Wagner wrote, the really long one Twilight of the Gods (also known as) • Götterdämmerung • The last of the 4 operas of The Ring What should we call it? L&IS 627: Spring 2009

10. Uniform Titles • [Ring des Nibelungen.Götterdämmerung] “Ring des Nibelungen” is the name of the entire opera cycle Gotterdammerung is a “part” of the cycle L&IS 627: Spring 2009

11. Uniform Titles Form title • Example 4 Brahms wrote a sextet called Sextet for 2 violins, 2 violas & 2 cellos no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 18 What should the uniform title be? L&IS 627: Spring 2009

12. Uniform Titles • [Sextets, ‡m violins, violas, violoncellos, ‡n no. 1, op. 18, ‡r Bb major] Let’s break down the “order” of the instruments listed L&IS 627: Spring 2009

13. Uniform Titles According to AACR2, Chapter 25 on Uniform Titles, the order of the “elements” in the medium of performance field (‡m) should be: • Voices • Keyboard instrument if there is more than one non-keyboard instrument • Other instruments in score order • Continuo L&IS 627: Spring 2009

14. Uniform Titles Collective title by medium of performance Example 5 Beethoven, Ludwig Van, 1770-1827.[Piano music]Beethoven [electronic resource] : complete works for solo piano. L&IS 627: Spring 2009

15. Uniform Titles Mixed forms and media uniform titles • Example 6 Dunstable, John, ca. 1390-1453. [Works]Complete works L&IS 627: Spring 2009

16. Uniform Titles Indiana University School of Music Cook Music Library Using Uniform Titles L&IS 627: Spring 2009

17. Uniform Titles A good resource for uniform titles by major composers…. The Best of MOUG (Music OCLC Users Group) L&IS 627: Spring 2009