MLA BP
Music Library Association Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21 for Chapter 20: Persons, Families, & Corporate Bodies Associated with an Expression
MLA BP for 20.2
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MLA recommendation: If feasible, give access points for all arrangers, solo performers, conductors, and performing ensembles. Generally do not give access points for the members of a performing ensemble if already giving an access point for the ensemble.
EXAMPLE
110 2_ | Majorstuen (Musical group), $e composer, $e instrumentalist. |
245 14 | The boréales : $b sound of northern Europe / $c Majorstuen. |
511 0_ | Majorstuen (Jorun Marie Kvernberg ; Andreas Ljones ; Gjermund Larsen ; Tove Dalbakk ; Synnøve S. Bjørset ; Ragnhild Furebotten). |
No access points given for the individual performers in the group.
511 0_ | Philharmonia Orchestra ; Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor. |
700 1_ | Dohnányi, Christoph von, $e conductor. |
710 2_ | Philharmonia Orchestra (London, England), $e instrumentalist. |
245 00 | Morning has broken : $b playtime songs on flute and harp / $c Steve Alder, Julie Keyes ; arranged by Kurt Bestor. |
700 1_ | Alder, Steve, $e instrumentalist. |
700 1_ | Keyes, Julie, $e instrumentalist. |
700 1_ | Bestor, Kurt, $e arranger of music. |
For compilations of musical works by various creators expressed as notated music that prominently name a person or corporate body known as a performer, give access points for the person or corporate body without a relationship designator.
EXAMPLE
245 04 | The Doris Day songbook. |
500 __ | Popular songs and excerpts from motion pictures, as performed by Doris Day. |
700 1_ | Day, Doris, $d 1924- |