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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 14The 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 00Morning 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 04The Doris Day songbook.
500 __Popular songs and excerpts from motion pictures, as performed by Doris Day.
700 1_Day, Doris, $d 1924-