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Other distinguishing characteristics of a work or expression (MARC 381)

Music Cataloging at Yale [1] ♪ MARC tagging [2]

Note: this page was created with music cataloging in mind.

Use in conjunction with Recording other distinguishing characteristic of the expression of musicals work [3] (RDA 6.18)

See also 380 [4]: Form of work | 382 [5]: Medium of performance | 383 [6]: Numeric designation of musical work | 384 [7]: Key
Sources: LC MARC 21 format for bibliographic date [8] and authority data [9] and DCM Z1 [10]

Indicators | Subfields | Examples

In bibliographic and authority records: Any characteristic that is not accommodated in a special field that serves to characterize a work or expression.
     ° Examples for music are: arranged statement of music or version.
     ° May be used to differentiate a work from another work with the same title.

Indicators

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Subfields

‡a Form of work: a term expressing the class or genre of the work.
     ° Multiple characteristics from the same source vocabulary may be recorded in the same field in separate occurrences of subfield ‡a.
     ° Terms from different source vocabularies are recorded in separate occurrences of the field.
‡v Source of information

Examples

381 __ arranged
381 __ unaccompanied
381 __ Selections
381 __ Selections ‡a arranged
381 __ Vocal score
381 __ Hermann [last name of arranger]
381 __ Lindsay [last name of translator]

Source URL:https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/MARC381

Links
[1] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music [2] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/marc-tagging [3] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/distchar [4] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/MARC380 [5] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/MARC382 [6] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/MARC383 [7] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/MARC384 [8] http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd381.html [9] http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad381.html [10] http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/dcmz1.pdf