Music Catalog Terms

Summary of a book, article.

A representative collection of selected musical or literary works or excerpts

A place in which public or institutional records are systematically preserved.

A reworking of a musical composition so that the performing forces, the musical content, or the form are substantially different from the original.

A document written or signed in a persons own hand.

A list of contents of a library, book collection, or group of libraries. a list or index of compositions.

To compare minutely in order to determine whether two or more books or manuscripts are identical copies of variants.

The publication of the entire compositional output of a single composer in scholarly edition

A publication containing the texts of the papers read at a conference or congress. Either a one time event on a particular topic. Such as an individual composer or regular meeting of a society

The right to Copy. The exclusive legally secured right to reproduce publish record and sell the matter and form of a literary musical or artistic work for a period in the USA of 50 years beyond death.

A listing of phonograph records, CDs, VHS, and tape recordings.

All the impressions of a literary work printed at any time or times from on setting up of type. B. one of the successive forms. revised. C. The presentation of an older musical performance in a version the makes it accessible for modern performers.

The process of incising a design, musical composition, or a metal plate or the resulting print made for it when the incised lines are inked.

One of the temporary divisions of a work which is issued in a small installments intended to be bound together permanently at a later time.

A publication on the occasion of a celebration or in honor of someone. Usually considering articles.

The consecutive numbering of the leaves of a book or manuscript.

• A leaf of a manuscript or book. 
• B. formed of sheets each folded once into two leaves or four pages.

A set of volumes of music or historical significance.

A document wholly in the handwriting of its author.

The study of the representation of objects by means if images or statues reliefs mosaics and paintings

The publishers name. Often with address and date of publication. Places at the foot of the title page or elsewhere in a book.

The first few notes or words of text use to identify a musical selection

Code numbers in an international identification system.

• A generic term to refer to or sometimes used in the title of a scholarly periodical. 
• A diarodor daily record of occurrences transactions or reflections.

A book containing a alphabetical or other systematic arrangement of words and their definition.

Containing arrives pictures and reviews. Advertisements often a popular interest and sometimes focusing on a single focus area.

A book document music composition written by hand. 

An authors written or typed copy of work before it is published.

A scholarly study treating a single subject Linda limited aspect of a subject

A scholarly edition of the music of one region or country.

A notice of death of a person. Obituary. A list of people who have died within a certain time.

A creative work. Usually a composition to which a number is assigned by a composer or publisher to indicate its order in a composers written or published output

A published report of a conference or meeting of  a society or congress. Accompanied by abstracts.

Pen name

The side of a folio that is to be read first. The right hand page

A later edition of a work that ordinarily is no longer in print. Often issued by another publisher

A writing which gives a critical assessment of something such as a written work or musical performance.

An edition of a work incorporating major revisions by the author or aedition and often supplementary matter designed to bring it up to date.

Any publication usually appearing at regular intervals including periodicals.

A letter or letters with or without numbers used to identify a manuscript or printed source.

Primary source is a composition, letter or document from a composer. Secondary is second or third hand info

A list or index of compositions. Usually by a single composer rather than a collection of repertory music.

The transliteration of an early work into modern musical notation. 

The process or result of adapting a musical composition to a medium other than its original one.

A learned formal writing on a subject. Usually in book form.

A library consisting the holdings of a group of cooperating libraries.

original text

The side of a folio that is to be read second

A manufacturers identifying mark or drain embedded in a sheet of paper.

A manufacturers identifying mark or drain embedded in a sheet of paper.