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03/26/09
The following preliminary list of terms is provided as a point of departure that will lead to the music component of a Library of Congress thesaurus of genre/form terms being developed by LC’s Policy and Standards Division (PSD). The thesaurus is being created in the course of the Library’s implementation of field tags 155 and 655, genre/form terms, in the MARC 21Bibliographic and Authority Formats, respectively.
This list is being built from terms for musical works from the Library of Congress Subject Headings, including headings (tag 150), form subdivisions (tag 185) and references (tag 150/260). It omits headings that have parenthetical qualifiers containing medium of performance, because medium of performance terms appear in a separate list being compiled simultaneously with this one. It, too, is posted with an invitation to comment.
This list of terms assigned to musical works is intended to open a discussion among those who wish to participate about:
- the music genre/form vocabulary that should be in the thesaurus;
- the semantic relationships among the terms, given that they will be in a structured thesaurus;
- the syntax of headings that embody the terms, considering that those headings will be assigned in bibliographic records for musical works.
Opposite each term is the LCCN upon which it was based (it may not always be identical). Once a term is accepted for the thesaurus it will be turned into an authority heading with a MARC 155 tag.
PSD welcomes comments through July 31, 2009. When the comment period closes, construction of the thesaurus will begin. Please send comments to Geraldine Ostrove at gost@loc.gov, with a copy to Janis Young at jayo@loc.gov.
- Candidate Music Genre/Form Terms for Discussion (PDF - 105 p; 466 KB)