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Music-Bibliographic resources

Documentation, rules, codes, standards and music-bibliographic manuals.

Rules, cataloguing
Italian and international music cataloguing rules.
Formats, standards
The main cataloguing formats and standards for music materials.
Musical forms
SBN e UNIMARC code tables for musical forms, with multilingual terminology.
Medium of performance
SBN e UNIMARC code tables for medium of performance: voices, instruments, other performers, with multilingual terminology.
Relator codes
Italian translation of the UNIMARC table of codes defining the relation between documents and names.
Format in music
Multilingual glossary with illustrated examples of terms defining format of printed and manuscript music.
Plaine & Easie Code
The code for the transcription of music incipits used by RISM and SBN, maintained by IAML
Italian music libraries
Addresses, national and international siglas, websites of Italian music libraries.
Performance locations
A repertoire of theatres, halls and historical performance locations, for libretto and sound materials cataloguing.
Thematic catalogues
A list of thematic catalogues with the codes used in SBN.
Digitised resources
Online music bio-bibliographic repertoirs, printed and manuscript music.
Music bibliographic glossaries
Cataloguing terminology for printed music, music manuscripts and sound materials.
Presenze femminili
A repertoire of female names in the Noseda collection of Milan Conservatory library, edited by Pinuccia Carrer.
Guidelines, indexes
Online music courses, treatises and manuals.
Other tools
Other music bibliographic related documentation.