Cataloging Musical Moving Image Material:
a Guide to the Bibliographic Control of Videorecordings and Films of Musical Performances and other
Music-Related Moving Image Material with Examples in MARC Format
Prepared by The Working Group on Bibliographic Control of Music
Video Material,
Bibliographic Control Committee, Music Library
Association
Edited by Lowell Ashley
A Review
Cataloging Musical Moving Image Material is number 25 in the series MLA
(Music Library Association) Technical
Reports. Its purpose is to "offer guidance that could lead to more
uniform
practice for cataloging musical moving image
materials." Books have been published previously that cover the
cataloging
of videorecordings and motion pictures, and other
works have been published on various aspects of music cataloging such as
the construction of uniform titles; however, this is
the first book to be published on how to catalog musical performances on
videorecordings and motion pictures. There have
been many inconsistencies in the way such material has been cataloged
because this type of material has not previously been
acquired and cataloged by libraries. Since the Library of Congress is no
longer cataloging videorecordings and motion pictures,
there is no national leadership in this area.
There currently is a controversy about whether AACR2 does and should allow
main entry under personal name for videos of
musical composition. The authors do not make a definite decision on this
issue but do point out in the examples where personal
name main entry might be applicable.
This book covers not just musical performances but also interviews of
musicians, documentaries on musical topics, motion
pictures with notable musical scores, biographical films of musicians,
instructional materials and master classes, and
documentation of the music of ethnic, cultural or religious groups. The
book is divided into sections on description, choice of
access points, subject headings and classification. Appendices include 42
examples of MARC formatted records, some in
OCLC and some in RLIN format; a bibliography of cataloging manuals for
music, audiovisual materials in general, and
specifically films and videorecordings plus a bibliography of general
reference sources for cataloging ethnographic materials.
Each example includes comments. The examples reflect format integration
but do not include the rearrangement of the fixed
field in OCLC that occurred after OCLC implemented format integration as
that had not happened when the book was
published. The examples are full records which contain many access points.
This book is very useful in clarifying many complex cataloging issues
involving musical moving image material.
Published in 1996 by: Music Library Association, Canton, Mass. (xiv, 108
p.)
ISBN 0-914954-51-2. $28.00 ($22.40 to MLA members)
Reviewed by:
Katherine L. Rankin
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Last updated: April 8, 2003
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