Music Cataloging at Yale [1] ♪ RDA [2]
Note: this page was created with music cataloging in mind.
Consult RDA Appendix I for a complete list of relationship designators.
See also PCC's Training Manual for Applying Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records [3]
See also Relationship designators between works, expressions, manifestations, and items (RDA Appendix J) [4]
A relationship designator indicates the nature of the relationship between entities represented by authorized access points, descriptions, and/or identifiers.
(I.1) General guidelines on using relationship designators used to specify the relationship between a resource and a person, family, or corporate body associated with that resource: PCC guidelines [5]: The LC-PCC PS for I.1 links to a PCC training manual that says ‡e is always preceded by a comma unless the preceding field is an open date, e.g.: Appendix I relationship designators should not be used in: Relationship designators for persons, families, or corporate bodies associated with a work (I.2) | an expression (I.3) |
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(I.2) Relationship designators for persons, families, or corporate bodies associated with a work | |||||||||
(I.2.1) Relationship designators for creators | |||||||||
author | Creates a work that is primarily textual in content, regardless of media type (e.g., printed text, spoken word, electronic text, tactile text) or genre (e.g., poems, novels, screenplays, blogs).
Use also for persons, etc., creating a new work by paraphrasing, rewriting, or adapting works by another creator if the modification has substantially changed the nature and content of the original or changed the medium of expression. Music-related creators under the category of author are also:
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compiler | Responsible for creating a new work (e.g., a bibliography, a directory) by selecting, arranging, aggregating, and editing data, information, etc. | ||||||||
composer | Creates a musical work. Use also for persons, etc., who ° adapt another musical work to form a distinct alteration (e.g., free transcription), paraphrasing a work ° create a work in the general style of another composer ° create a work that is based on the music of another composer (e.g., variations on a theme). |
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honouree | person, family, or corporate body honoured by a work (e.g., the honouree of a festschrift) ° may be used for person, family, or corporate body associated with a work written "in memory of" ° "dedicatee" has also been used in this situation |
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MARC subfield coding for relationship designators between works, expressions, manifestations, and items: | |||||||||
In bibliographic records: ‡e the designation of function that describes the relationship between a name and a work |
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Examples:
2013560472 Cruz, Orfa V., ‡e compiler Multiple relationship designators for creators: 2012560047 Clark, Larry, ‡d 1963- ‡e composer, ‡e compiler |
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(I.2.2) Relationship designators for other persons, families, or corporate bodies associated with a work | |||||||||
producer | Responsible for most of the business aspects of a production for screen, audio recording, television, webcast, etc. The producer is generally responsible for fund raising, managing the production, hiring key personnel, arranging for distributors, etc. | ||||||||
producer | Responsible for most of the business aspects of a production for screen, audio recording, television, webcast, etc. The producer is generally responsible for fund raising, managing the production, hiring key personnel, arranging for distributors, etc. | ||||||||
production company | Responsible for financial, technical, and organizational management of a production for stage, screen, audio recording, television, webcast, etc. | ||||||||
sponsoring body | Sponsors some aspect of a work, e.g., funding research, sponsoring an event. | ||||||||
(I.3) Relationship designators for persons, families, or corporate bodies associated with an expression | |||||||||
(I.3.1) Relationship designators for contributors | |||||||||
arranger of music | Rewrites the composition for a medium of performance different from that for which the work was originally intended. ° may also modify the work for the same medium of performance, etc., keeping the musical substance of the original composition essentially unchanged. For extensive modification that effectively results in the creation of a new musical work, see composer at I.2.1. For a work transcribed from one system of notation to another, see transcriber in I.3.1. |
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composer (expression) | Adds music to a work that originally lacked it, by composing new music to substitute for the original music, or by composing new music to supplement the existing music. | ||||||||
editor | Revises or clarifies the content, e.g., adding an introduction, notes, or other critical matter. ° may also prepare an expression of a work for production, publication, or distribution. For major revisions, adaptations, etc., that substantially change the nature and content of the original work, resulting in a new work, see author at I.2.1 |
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Note: with the April 22, 2014 update to the RDA Toolkit, this relationship has will be deleted. Use editor | |||||||||
musical director | A person, family, or corporate body contributing to an expression of a work by coordinating the activities of the composer, the sound editor, and sound mixers for a moving image production or for a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment. | ||||||||
performer | Contributes to an expression of a work by performing music, acting, dancing, speaking, etc., often in a musical or dramatic presentation, etc.
Music-related contributors under the category of performer are also:
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recording engineer | Supervises the technical aspects of a sound or video recording session. | ||||||||
recordist | Uses a recording device to capture sound and/or video during a recording session, including field recordings of natural sounds, folkloric events, music, etc. | ||||||||
transcriber | Changes the work from one system of notation to another. For a work transcribed for a different instrument or performing group, see arranger of music at I.3.1 |
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translator | Expresses the original text of the work in a language different from that of the original work. A translator may also translate a text from an older form of a language into the modern form. |
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writer of supplementary textual content | Provides supplementary textual content (e.g., an introduction, a preface) to the original work.
Music-related contributors under the category of performer are also:
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Examples:
Arrangers: Composers of expression: Editors: Performers: Musical directors: Recordists: Transcribers: Translators: writers of supplementary textual content: Relationship designators not found in Appendix I: Multiple relationship designators for creators: Arrangers, etc.: 2013563006 Firfov, Živko, ‡e compiler, ‡e editor Composers as well as contributors: |
Links
[1] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music
[2] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/rda
[3] http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/sct/documents/rel-desig-guide-bib.pdf
[4] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/relationshipdesgj
[5] http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/PCC%20RDA%20guidelines/Relat-Desig-Guidelines.docx
[6] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/frbr-wemi-music
[7] http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_about.aspx