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Deborah Lee Email: deborah.lee@courtauld.ac.uk CIG Conference, Glasgow, September 2008. Classifying musical performance: the application of faceted classification principles to concert programmes. >> 1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes 2. Issues in arranging concert programmes
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Deborah Lee Email: deborah.lee@courtauld.ac.uk CIG Conference, Glasgow, September 2008 Classifying musical performance: the application of faceted classification principles to concert programmes
>>1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes 2. Issues in arranging concert programmes 3. Arrangement theories 4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division 5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate
1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes >>2. Issues in arranging concert programmes 3. Arrangement theories 4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division 5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate
2. Issues in arranging concert programmes • Why classify? • Types of information resource
1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes 2. Issues in arranging concert programmes >>3. Arrangement theories 4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division 5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate
3. Arrangement theories Bibliographic • Characteristic of division: generic name of the aspect of item used to arrange collection, e.g. “language”, “literary form” • Scattering: inevitable process where identical aspects not part of the first characteristic of division are deposited across a collection • Distributed relatives: name of identical aspects occurring in multiple places in a collection, caused by scattering
Menges concert programmes Solo Chamber Other Venue a Venue b Venue a Venue b Venue a Venue b Date a Date b Date a Date b … Date a Date b … Date a Date b 3. Arrangement theories Characteristic: Performer Venue Date
Menges concert programmes Solo Chamber Other Venue a Venue b Venue a Venue b Venue a Venue b Date a Date b Date a Date b … Date a Date b … Date a Date b 3. Arrangement theories Characteristic: Performer Venue Date Same date, different venues
1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes 2. Issues in arranging concert programmes >>3. Arrangement theories 4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division 5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate
3. Arrangement theories Archival • Provenance: arrangement according to source of the collection; items from the same source are kept together Ephemera collections • Arrangement by form: programmes, posters, tickets etc. kept in separate sequences
1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes 2. Issues in arranging concert programmes 3. Arrangement theories >>4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division 5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate
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1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes 2. Issues in arranging concert programmes 3. Arrangement theories 4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division >>5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate
5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate • Event • a concert • exists in temporal and spatial planes, but not in the physical plane • Object • contains information about the event • exists in the physical plane and has physical attributes • Manuscript • a particular exemplar of an object • exists in the physical plane and has physical attributes • intellectually different from all other manuscripts
5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate • Event layer • Date of concert • Time of concert • Geographic location • Concert venue • Concert genre • Repertoire • Performers and performing groups • Concert-promoters/concert-giving societies
5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate • Object layer • Form of object • Size • Programme notes • Pictorial evidence • Advertisements • Seating plans • Ticket prices
5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate • Manuscript layer • Provenance • Custodial history • Storage type • Comparative characteristics • Annotations and signatures • Copy number of programme