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Searching for Music in Cardcat

Searching for Music in Cardcat. Start with the Library’s home page:. http://www.bsu.edu/library/. Then click CardCat. Next, choose whether to log in. Logging in allows you to:. Access Course Reserves Place Holds/Recalls Renew library items

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Searching for Music in Cardcat

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  1. Searching for Music in Cardcat

  2. Start with the Library’s home page: http://www.bsu.edu/library/

  3. Then click CardCat

  4. Next, choose whether to log in

  5. Logging in allows you to: • Access Course Reserves • Place Holds/Recalls • Renew library items • You do NOT have to log in just to search cardcat!

  6. Searching for Sheet Music(Scores)

  7. Searching for books is simple: There are few variations amongst editions

  8. Searching for music is different...

  9. Searching for Music vs. Books Books usually have one format: BOOK!

  10. Sheet Music Comes in Many Formats And each format has its own keywords for searching Score: Miniature Score: Set of Parts

  11. Books are simple to describe. They usually have • One Author • One Title • Unique Contents • One or Two Subjects

  12. Sheet music can have… • Two Titles! • Title Page Title • Uniform Title • Two “Authors!” • The composer • The arranger or editor A special size

  13. Let’s say you want the full score for Trauermusik by Paul Hindemith...

  14. You can type the title into the Basic Search textbox as a keyword: trauermusik

  15. Your query returns 15 results... What???? but…

  16. Some of the results are “false hits”

  17. If you want “Trauermusik” by Hindemith, this isn’t it! The uniform title for Mozart’s Mass in C happens to use the term “Trauermusik!”

  18. For more targeted results, use more search terms: Title of the piece: Trauermusik Composer: Hindemith Solo instrument: Viola Arrangement with Piano? No!

  19. Combine terms with Boolean commands such as “and” and “not”

  20. Now there are fewer results:

  21. ...and the results are more specific! This one is the score

  22. Clicking on “Details” shows you the full cataloging record:

  23. Searching for Music Recordings(Compact Discs)

  24. Recordings are complicated! There are lots of possible “authors” • Composer • Librettist • Conductor • Orchestra • Chorus • Soloist • Accompanist • Author of Liner notes

  25. There can be up to 20 tracks on a disc and some CDs are published as multi-disc sets: This CD has over 70 “authors!”

  26. There can be up to 20 tracks on a disc and some CDs are published as multi-disc sets: This CD has over 70 “authors!”

  27. …and recordings can have Lots of titles! • The title on the cover • The titles of all the pieces • Alternate titles & translations • Titles of sections or movements • Series titles • Uniform title! (of course!)

  28. …and Lots of publication information: • Recording label (the “publisher”) • Label number • Recording date • Release date • Reissue date(s) • Reissue number(s) • Timings

  29. A typical aria CD (part 1): The performer is the “author.” There are many titles that may also appear on other CDs There could be many recording dates

  30. Part 2: Added Author-Title for each aria

  31. Added Author-Title lines are searchable: Author Title of the Opera Title of the Aria

  32. None of these seems to “match” But our CD comes up in the list of CDs with this aria

  33. Things get trickier for works with genre-based titles, for example:

  34. A genre-based piece may be titled many ways, for example: “Eroica” Symphony Symphony No. 3 Symphony Op. 55 Symphony in E-Flat Major Symphonie Nr. 3 in Es-Dur The Symphonies The World’s Greatest Orchestral Music • By nickname • By number within the genre • By opus number • By key • In another language • In a group • In an unrelated title!

  35. The uniform title standardizes genre-based titles Elements of a uniform title: Genre (plural) Numbering system Key

  36. A note about numbering systems Composers’ works can be numbered many ways! String Quartet No. 6 String Quartet Op. 18 String Quartet Op. 18, No. 1 BWV 1006 K. 465 • By the number in the genre • By opus number • By opus with internal number • By index (Verzeichnis) number • By scholar’s number The uniform title uses only one system per composer. Publishers don’t pay attention to uniform titles!

  37. Some numbering systems to know: Bach WerkeVerzeichnis (BWV) Opus numbers; Woo (Werkeohne opus, works without opus number) Hoboken (H.) Köchel (K.) Deutsch (D.) • Bach • Beethoven • Haydn • Mozart • Schubert • Vivaldi Shhhh don’t ask about Vivaldi ACK! You had to ask about VIVALDI!

  38. Vivaldi’s works have been numbered several ways: • RV is the current standard system, but... • Sometimes opus numbers are used: La stravaganza : 12 violin concertos, opus 4 • Sometimes titles are used: Cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione. N. 1-4

  39. You can use numbers as “keywords” This gets around the problem of uniform titles, symphony nicknames, etc.

  40. Notice how different the “titles” are!

  41. The uniform title gave you the results:

  42. Using Advanced Search

  43. In Advanced Search you can specify where in the library record your term should appear:

  44. You can also specify: Language Format Date

  45. Russian Soprano Anna Netrebko ...singing in Russian ...for a whole opera ...not just on a CD of excerpts Let’s say you want to hear DaDaTovarich! You can do that!

  46. You can create a very specific search: Opera Not excerpts Netrebko Russian CD

  47. Your results are exactly what you want!

  48. You can specify several authors:

  49. ...for a specific performance

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