Music Context Set

Draft, 6 March 2004

Introduction

The Music Context set extends the base CQL context set, DC context set and Bath  Profile context set to enable searching for music materials.

Note: this is currently in draft – for information and participation in the development  of this set please contact development@ceridwen.com

The identifier for the Music context set is: info:srw/cql-context-set/3/music-1.0 The recommended prefix for the Music index set is: music

Indexes

performer

Names of the Performer/Conductor (e.g. Alfred Brendel)

arranger

Name of the arranger

instrumentation

Musical instrument used in the work (e.g. Piano, Violin). Term is either taken   as a descriptive string (e.g. String Quartet) or use the bag modifier to indicate   a list of instruments

originalInstrumentation

Musical instrument used in the original arrangement of the piece

arrangement

Arrangement of the work (e.g. Piano Trio, String Quartet)

originalArrangement

Arrangement of the original work (e.g. Piano Trio, String Quartet)

musicalKey

Key of the original arrangement

originalMusical

Key of the current arrangement

compositionDate

Date of the original composition of the work

recordingDate

Date of the current recording of the work

recodingPlace

Place where the recording was made (e.g. Royal Festival Hall)

ISWCNumber

International Standard Work Code (ISO/TC 46/SC 9/WG)

matrixNumber

Matrix number of recording

plateNumber

Publisher’s plate number

McColvinClassification

McColvin Classification Scheme

duration

Duration of the work (or estimated duration)

musicalTheme

A representation of a musical theme either as string format agreed between   target and origin (e.g. Plaine and Easie) or as an mime encoded format

Relations

Relation Modifiers

mimeEncoded

Used for music theme to indicate that the term is in a mimeEncoded form

bag

Indicates that the term is a list which allows repeated elements

Boolean Modifiers