LC-PCC policy statements for authorized access point for musical work

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option by using an access point established in the LC/NACO Authority file. If no authorized form has been established in the LC/NACO Authority file, apply the option by (1) establishing a value of Work: access point for work as the authorized form in the LC/NACO Name Authority file, and/or (2) Recording a value of Work: access point for work on a bibliographic record.

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option

Use the following string encoding schemes. If a musical work does not belong to one of the listed categories, see Work: authorized access point for work for additional guidance. Make additions as instructed at Additional elements and designations in authorized access points for musical works.

LC/PCC practice: Form an authorized access point for a musical work using an appropriate string encoding scheme.

For a single part of a work, the base authorized access point is the preferred title of musical work for the whole work, followed by the preferred title of musical work of the part.

For a work that plans to aggregate multiple parts of a musical work, the base authorized access point is the preferred title of the musical work for the whole work, followed by the term Selections.

LC/PCC practice: Include values of Work: medium of performance of musical content of representative expression if a preferred title of musical work consists solely of one or more types of composition or if values of Work: medium of performance of musical content of representative expression are needed to distinguish an access point from another access point.

Use LCMPT terms in an authorized access point, adjusting the form to plural if needed according to Exceptions to including a value for medium of performance in an authorized access point for musical work .

Record terms in this order:

1. voices
2. keyboard instrument if there is more than one non-keyboard instrument
3. the other instruments in score order
4. continuo.

For a work for solo instrument or instruments and accompanying ensemble or ensembles, add the terms for the solo instrument or instruments followed by the term for the accompanying ensemble or ensembles.

For a work with a Work: preferred title of musical work that is the English word "Melody" or "Melodies" or their cognates in another language (including French) and a value of Work: medium of performance of musical content of representative expression is not for solo voice and keyboard stringed instrument, add the Work: medium of performance of musical content of representative expression, following the options at Exceptions to including a value for medium of performance in an authorized access point for musical work .

Apply the options and policy statements for adding values of Work: medium of performance of musical content of representative expression to an authorized access point at Exceptions to including a value for medium of performance in an authorized access point for musical work .

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

If there are two or more works by the same composer with the same preferred title and the medium of performance is unknown but the number of parts is known, record the number of parts following the term performers in an authorized access point.

For a work with a Work: preferred title of musical work: Anglo-American legacy instructions that is a Latin liturgical word or phrase (e.g., "Gloria," "Salve Regina," "Te Deum") in most cases do not add a value of Work: medium of performance of musical content of representative expression to a base authorized access point.

If a composer wrote more than one work of a particular type of composition that is for or includes various keyboard stringed instruments, use the one that predominates in the works of that type when adding the medium of performance. If no predominant instrument is apparent, use the term keyboard instrument.

For a work with a Work: preferred title of musical work: Anglo-American legacy instructions that is the French "Mélodie" or "Mélodies" and a value of Work: medium of performance of musical content of representative expression is for solo voice and keyboard stringed instrument, consider Work: medium of performance of musical content of representative expression to be implied and do not add it to a base authorized access point.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option to record the term in the plural. Always supply the number of parts if more than one for a particular instrument or voice, even if the number is implicit in the preferred title.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Refer to the individual options for policy decisions.

LC/PCC practice: For music especially composed for a pasticcio, ballad opera, etc. or for a single excerpt from a pasticcio, ballad opera, etc., form a base authorized access point by using an appropriate string encoding scheme. Apply the options and policy statements in this section for other categories of pasticcios, ballad operas, etc.

LC/PCC practice: Do not include a value of Agent: access point for agent for any of the composers.

LC/PCC practice: Do not add Selections for a compilation of excerpts from a single pasticcio, ballad opera, etc.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: For adaptations of musical works, form a base authorized access point by using an appropriate string encoding scheme. Apply the guidance and options in this section as applicable.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: For cadenzas, form a base authorized access point by using an appropriate string encoding scheme. Apply the guidance and options in this section as applicable.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the guidance and options for making additions in this section.

Do not make further additions to an authorized access point when one or more instrumental parts for a work or a compilation of works by one composer are published separately. Use the same authorized access point that would be used for a score or a complete set of parts.

If a composer also created the libretto for a dramatic musical work and the libretto is manifested separately as a literary work, distinguish the literary work from the musical work with (Libretto), but do not make an addition to the access point for the musical work.

LC/PCC practice: Record a value of Work: serial number of musical work in an authorized access point if works with the same title and the same medium of performance are consecutively numbered in music reference sources.

Record a serial number if works with the same title for different media are consecutively numbered in music reference sources if the medium of performance is omitted from the authorized access point per Exceptions to including a value for medium of performance in an authorized access point for musical work .

LC/PCC practice: See the policy statement for Additional elements and designations in authorized access points for musical works.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option only if all other alternatives for additions have been exhausted.

LC/PCC practice: Include a value of Work: medium of performance of musical content of representative expression if an authorized access point is for an aggregating work that is an incomplete compilation of works for a single type of composition for a specific medium of performance. Include the other listed values if required to distinguish the access point from other access points.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option if specifically required by policy or the metadata system, as stated in the Metadata Guidance documentation.

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.