Problemi di organizzazione dell’authority control in campo musicale: nomi e titoli convenzionali [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale] = Authority control in the field of the music: names and titles [English version presented at the International Conference]

Abstract

Parallel to the worldwide dissemination of music is the dissemination of musical documents, presenting some typical characters that differentiate it from the dissemination of literary documents. Music notation is a much more complicated and expensive process than text writing, thus music manuscripts have been widely used until the mid-20th century and are now large part of materials preserved in libraries. Thus compelled by the circumstances, music librarianship recognised by the mid-20th century the need to focus the cataloguing process on all kinds of documents preserving music and information about musical events, regardless of the materials, and developed international repertories, reference tools and standards