008–Music Dialog Box

The 008–Music dialog box is used to insert information about the music as a whole or about special aspects of the 1XX heading or 4XX/5XX tracing fields. The 008–Music dialog box is displayed when you double-click the 008 tag in the MARC Editor and LDR/06 contains ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘i’, or ‘j’.

Select from the options in the following boxes to enter data in the 008 tag for music:

Entry date - Six digits specify the date the record was first entered into machine-readable form. The date is given in the pattern yymmdd 
(yy for the year, mm for the month, and dd for the day).

Type of date - A one-character alphabetic code that categorizes the type of date given in character positions 008/07-10 and 008/11-14. For serially-issued items, the code in 008/06 also indicates the publication status.

Date 1 - Four digits that indicate a date appropriate for the type of item being recorded. Missing digits are represented by the character u. For most records, the date is derived from information in field 260, field 362, or from note fields. For serially issued items, this box contains the beginning date of publication (chronological designation). For reprints of serials and for reproductions of serials being described in the body of the entry, the beginning date is entered in this position.

Date 2 - Four digits that indicate a date appropriate for the type of item being recorded. Missing digits are represented by the character u. For most records, the date is derived from information in field 260, field 362, or from note fields. For serially issued items, this box contains the ending date of publication (chronological designation). For reprints of serials and for reproductions of serials being described in the body of the entry, the ending date is entered in this position.

Place of publication - A two- or three-character alphabetic code indicates the place of publication, production, or execution. The place code is an authoritative-agency data element. The source of the code is the MARC 21 Code List for Countries that is maintained by the Library of Congress. Choice of a MARC 21 code is generally related to information in field 260.

Form of composition - A two-character alphabetic code indicates the form of composition of printed and manuscript music, and musical sound recordings. The code is based on the terminology in the work itself and is intended to provide a coded approach to the content of the work. In addition to codes for forms, the list also includes codes for musical genres. The codes are based on Library of Congress subject headings. Codes should be assigned when they apply to the item as a whole. If more than one code is appropriate, the code mu (Multiple forms) is used in this element, with appropriate specific codes given optionally in field 047.

Format of music - Indicates the format of a musical composition. This character position applies to printed or manuscript music. Information for this data element is generally derived from terms appearing in field 300. If the item being cataloged consists of one or more scores along with other materials, consider only the score or scores in coding this character position.

Music parts - A one character code indicates whether the item being cataloged contains parts. This position is not used to indicate that parts may exist elsewhere.

Audience - A one-character alphabetic code describes the intellectual level of the target audience for which the material is intended. It is used primarily to identify music to be used or performed by a specific target audience. When items are considered appropriate for more than one target audience, the code is recorded for the primary target audience. For juvenile material, either code j or the more specific codes a, b, or c are used. An item considered juvenile material often includes the word juvenile in its subject headings.

Form of item - A one-character alphabetic code specifies the form of material for the item being described. For music, this character position is used only with printed or manuscript music.

Accompanying matter - One-character alphabetic codes indicate the contents of program notes and other accompanying material for sound recordings, music manuscripts, or printed music. Generally, a specific code is used only if a significant part of the accompanying material is the type of material represented by the code. Up to six codes may be recorded. Codes are recorded in alphabetical order. If fewer than six codes are assigned, the codes are left-justified and unused positions contain blanks. If more than six codes are appropriate to an item, only the six most important are recorded.

Accompanying matter list - Select up to six material types to set in Accompany matter positions.

Literary text - One-character alphabetic codes indicate the type of literary text contained in a nonmusical sound recording. Up to two codes may be recorded. If only one code is assigned, it is left-justified and the unused position contains a blank. If more than two codes for types of literary text are appropriate to an item, only the two most important are recorded.

Literary text list - Select one or two literary text descriptions to place in the Literary text positions.

Transposition - A one-character code indicates whether all or part of the item being cataloged is a transposition and/or arrangement of another work.

Language - A three-character alphabetic code indicates the language of the item. The source of the code is the MARC 21 Code List of Languages that is maintained by the Library of Congress. Choice of a MARC 21 code is based on the predominant language of the item. When an item contains text, etc., in more than one language, or is a translation, textual information regarding the language is usually given in field 500 or field 546. If more than one language code is appropriate, all appropriate codes are given in field 04 and the first one is recorded in 008/35-37.

Modified record - Indicates whether any data on a bibliographic record is a modification of information that appeared on the item being cataloged or that was intended to be included in the machine-readable record. Such modifications include: the romanization of data that originally appeared in a non-roman script, substitution of characters available for those characters that could not be converted to machine-readable form, or shortening of records because the amount of data exceeded a system-imposed maximum allowable length.

Cataloging source - Indicates the original cataloging source A code stored in tag 040 $a that tells who created the record. These codes are governed by the MARC code list for libraries. of the record. If the cataloging source is known, it is identified in subfield ‡a of field 040.