Many libraries are implementing or developing web-scale discovery interfaces or other faceted browsing interfaces. There is exciting potential for new discovery interfaces to ease the difficulties users face when searching for music materials. However, the specialized discovery needs arising from unique characteristics of music materials are often overlooked. This session will examine how to meet the special demands for music discovery while improving access to materials that pose similar challenges, such as law, literature and religious studies, and video collections. The session will provide an overview of the topic, based on the Music Library Association’s Music Discovery Requirements document, and explore aspects of music discovery as realized through specific interfaces. Rebecca Belford Music Cataloger/Reference Librarian, University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY See accompanying presentation by Tracey Snyder Cornell University http://www.slideshare.net/NASIG/discovering-music-smallscale-webscale-facets-and-beyond

1. Music Discovery:
Small-scale, Web-scale, Facets, and
Beyond
NASIG Annual Conference
Buffalo, NY
June 8, 2013
Rebecca Belford
University at Buffalo

2.  Music discovery defined
 Types of user needs
 How discovery tools can help (or hinder)
 Discovery beyond the ‘simple’ catalog

3. Performed music
Notated music

4. Discovery –
library context
 OPAC
 Discovery layers
 Web-scale products
 Database content
 Digital collections
 External collections

5. Why care about music?
A discovery tool that works for music will work well for
(almost) anything.*
*Please talk to your colleagues working with archives, rare
materials, and specialized cataloging rules, too!

6. What do music users (scholars, performers, casual users)
need?
For those needs that are reflected in cataloging practice, how
can they be met by discovery tools?

7. Music searches

8. User inquiries for notated & recorded music
(actual questions from the UB Music Library)
Score and recording of New World Symphony
Recording of a baroque-era minuet
Vocal score and original cast recording of
Brigadoon
Playing parts for a string quartet
Facsimile of Beethoven’s manuscript for the
Eroica symphony
Works by Brian Ferneyhough
The new Bärenreiter edition of Schubert’s Mass
in A flat major, vocal score
1970s rock on vinyl
DVD of Boulez conducting Wagner’s Ring cycle at
the Bayreuth festival
Known
works
Known
creators
Known
contrib-
utors
Medium
Record-
ings
Genre
Form
Scores

9. Music Library Association
Music Discovery Requirements
 Group convened by Music Library Association’s Emerging
Technologies and Services Committee
 Document released April 2012, free online publication
 Best practices and recommendations, not policy
 Primary audience not music catalogers
 MARC focused, but not exclusive
 Field-by-field and index-based display, indexing, and facet
guides appended

10. Music Discovery Requirements Document
What needs to be indexed, displayed, and linked in
a system in order for music users to
find, identify, and select materials?

11. Outline
I. Introduction
II. Musical Works
A. Introduction
B. Titles
C. Identifying Numbers
D. Medium of Performance
E. Musical Key/Range
F. Dates
G. Persons and Corporate Bodies
H. Topical Subjects
I. Genre/Form
J. Geographic Area
III. Expressions and Manifestations
A. Introduction
B. Format: Content and Carriers
C. Identifying Numbers
D. Musical Presentation
E. Edition
F. Language
G. Medium of Performance
H. Musical Key/Range
I. Dates
J. Persons and Corporate Bodies
K. Geographic Area
IV. Other Aspects of Music Discovery
A. Introduction
B. Authority Records
C. Compilations
D. Searching: Alphabetical and Keyword
E. Enhancements: Third-party content
F. Music-Specific Interface/View

12. Today’s highlights
Formats
Identifying works
&
Navigating among manifestations

13. Format (Content/Carrier/Media)
Scale: byte-sized
 Brief results
 Detailed records
 Pre-search limits
 Post-search facets

14. Format (MARC)
Broad content
LDR/06 (type of record)
006/00 (form of material)
More specific
007 (physical description)
34x fields
Maybe also…
RDA content, media, carrier (33x)
GMD (“legacy” records)
Content of MARC 538 notes

15. Format/MARC mapping:
Don’t reinvent the wheel
http://committees.musiclibraryassoc.org/ETSC/MDR

16. Music Discovery Requirements, Appendix C. MARC Bibliographic Record Mapping for Content and Carrier
http://committees.musiclibraryassoc.org/uploads/ETSC/MDRappendixC.xls

17. Format Icons/Labels
King County Library System
http://www.kcls.org/usingthelibrary/catalog_help/format_icons.cfm
Stanford University
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/

18. Pre-search limits
Single format Multiple options

19. Facets & brief results
University at Buffalo
Libraries

20. Facets & brief results
WorldCat.org

21. Single records
University at Buffalo Libraries
http://catalog.lib.buffalo.edu/vufind/Record/003156616
WorldCat.org
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/605114257

22. Notated music
Content/format
+
Expression-level
characteristics
Information in:
 Coded fields
 Physical description fields
 Title/responsibility
 Edition statements
 Notes
 Preferred/uniform titles
 Subject subdivisions
University at Buffalo Libraries

23. works
(works/expressions)
 Sufficient identifying information
&
 Associated names
 Linking/collocation
&
 Ability to navigate to other manifestations
 Typical generic title authorized access point:
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Symphonies, no. 4, op. 98, E minor

24. Identifying works
 Information: creator + title + contributors + coded
information for language, medium, format of music, etc. +
relevant notes
 Indexing: author, title, keyword, more?
 Long list of fields. MDR appendices list tags and indexes.

25. Telemann,
“Overture in D major for
strings and continuo”

26. Georg Philipp Telemann: thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis
seiner Werke, Band 3, ed. Martin Ruhnke. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1999.

27. Title access points:
additional information beyond first title element

28. WorldCat.org
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2435569
Case Western Reserve University Libraries
http://catalog.cwru.edu/search/o?SEARCH=2435569

29. Some of Chopin’s piano music
Piano music. Selections
Everything Chopin wrote for piano
Piano music
University at Buffalo Libraries
http://catalog.lib.buffalo.edu/vufind/Record/002224269

30. Information after
preferred title/initial title element
(MARC 240 after $a / 700 after $t)
 Vocal score
 Sketches
 Selections
 Arranged
 Named parts of works
 Numbered parts of works
 Medium
 Key
 Opus numbers
 Serial numbers
 Thematic catalog numbers
 Language of translation

31. Compilations
 Contents notes
 Access points for contained
works
 Keep associated information
together (names + titles)

32. Contents note, with titles, composers, performers, and conductors
(only place in record with this information)
WorldCat.org
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/460115998

33. WorldCat.org
#795766605

34. Northwestern University Libraries (Primo)

35. University of Cincinnati Libraries
http://uclid.uc.edu/record=b5755846~S39

36. Navigating among manifestations of the same
work (a.k.a. FRBRization)
 Score  Recording
 Score  Parts
 Other editions are available?
(performers, editors, publishers)
 Contingent on indexing and display
 Linked authorized access points
 Sufficient identifying information for selection

37. Do you have a score…?

38. Scores, Schubert’s “Trout” quintet, in WorldCat
 Bärenreiter, mini score (74 p.)
 Bärenreiter, score and 4 parts,
 Belwin Mills, score and 4 parts
 Berandol Music, score
 Boosey & Hawkes, mini score
 Breitkopf und Härtel, score and 5 parts
 Breitkopf und Härtel, score and 4 parts
 C.F. Peters, condensed score and 4 parts
 C.F. Peters, score and 5 parts
 C.F. Peters, score and 4 parts
 Columbia, mini score
 Cranz, score and 4 parts
 Czerny, score and 4 parts
 Dover, mini score (94 p.)
 Dover, score (complete works)
 E. Eulenburg, mini score (54 p.)
 E. Eulenburg, mini score (86 p.)
 Eulenburg, mini score (86 p.), fwd.
Brown
 Gosudarstvennoe
tbo, score and 5 parts
 G. Henle, mini score (82 p.)
 G. Henle, score (82 p.) and 4 parts
 G. Henle, score (92 p.) and 4 parts
 Heugel, mini score (86 p.)
 International, score (51 p.) and 5 parts
 International, score (51 p.) and 4 parts
 Kalmus, mini score (94 p.)
 E.F. Kalmus, score (51 p.) and 4 parts
 Kalmus, score (51 p.) and 5 parts
 Lea pocket scores, mini score (p. 45-94)
 Litolff’s Verlag, score (52 p.) and 4 parts
 Ongaku no Tomo Sha, mini score
 A. Payne's Musikverlag, mini score
 Performers' Facsimiles, score and 4 parts
 Peters, mini score
 Peters, score and 5 parts
 Pro Art, mini score (86 p.)
 G. Ricordi & C., mini score (92 p.)
 Schott, score (65 p.)
 Universal, mini score
 Universal, score (69 p.) and 5 parts
 Weaner-Levant Publications, condensed
score (51 p.) and 5 parts
 Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag, mini
score (54 p.)
 Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag, mini
score (87 p.)
 A.O. Witzendorf, 4 parts
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
Quintets, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, D. 667, A major

39. • Quintetti per pianoforte e archi
• Trout quintet
• Romantic piano quintets
• Forellen-Quintett D 667 = Trout quintet ; Notturno D 897 ;
Arpeggione-Sonate D 821
• Melos Ensemble : complete EMI recordings 1957-1972
• Arpeggione sonate ; Forellen quintet
• Piano quintet in A major : 'Trout'
• Schubert at home
• Piano quintet in A major, opus 114, 'The trout“ ; String quartet in A
minor, opus 29
CD titles proper, containing Schubert’s “Trout”
quintet, in WorldCat
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
Quintets, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, D. 667, A major

40. Stanford University Libraries (Blacklight)
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3401720

41. Why not . . .
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte. Hölle Rache
1. Works by Mozart
Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
or any behind the scenes search, VIAF 32197206 , LCCN, etc.
2. Magic Flute
Author-title: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte
3. “Queen of the Night” aria from Magic Flute
Author-title: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte. Hölle Rache
1. Works by Mozart
2. Magic Flute
3. Vocal scores of Magic Flute
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte. Vocal score

42. Web scale
 Library content
 Subscription databases
Recorded music: Naxos, Alexander Street Press, DRAM
Notated music: ASP Classical Scores Library
 Digital collections / Institutional repositories (local)
 External digital collections
 Citations for non-subscribed/external resources

43. Web-scale challenges
 Metadata harmonization
 Consistent identifiers/access points across sources
 Navigating among manifestations, creators, contributors
 Ensuring format facets are both accurate and
comprehensive
 Correctly identifying formats
 Coverage & indexing

44. Web-scale:
external collection citations included in Summon
NSCU Libraries
http://ncsu.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.q=piano+waltzes

45. Naxos in Summon
Title: Waltzes for piano
Naxos in Naxos
Web-scale database content
University at Buffalo LibrariesNaxos Music Library

46. WorldCat record
(same item)
Title: Man lebt nur einmal
FirstSearch WorldCat, OCLC #, 811246362

47. Beyond the Library

48. Australian Music Centre
Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

49. Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

50. Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

51. Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

52. Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

53. Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

54. Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

55. Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

56. Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

57. Elena Kats-Chernin, Eliza Aria, sample score, http://cdn.australianmusiccentre.com.au/documents/ds_33743_5016.pdf

58. http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/workversion/kats-chernin-elena-eliza-aria/22295

59. Repertoire navigator with hierarchy browser
Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/

60. Music Library Association, Emerging Technologies and Services Committee, “Music Discovery
Requirements” (2012) http://committees.musiclibraryassoc.org/ETSC/MDR
MLA Music Discovery Requirements Group
Nara Newcomer (leader), University of Missouri, Kansas City
Rebecca Belford, University at Buffalo
Deb Kulczak, University of Arkansas
Jennifer Matthews, University of Notre Dame
Misti Shaw, Depauw University
Kimmy Szeto, Baruch College, City University of New York
Discovery tool screenshots
Additional resources shown
Naxos Music Library, http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com
Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
See also http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/about/websitedevelopment
Schubert score excerpts from the IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, http://imslp.org/
Buffalo State College (Summon)
Case Western Reserve University (III)
Cornell University (WorldCat Local)
North Carolina State University (Summon)
Northwestern University (Primo)
Stanford University (Blacklight)
University at Buffalo (Aleph, VuFind)
University of Cincinnati Libraries (III)
WorldCat.org & FirstSearch (OCLC)
Credits & Links

61. Questions?
Rebecca Belford
rbelford@buffalo.edu