Hm, it's interesting to see how difficult these parallel statements turn
out to be...
I think Jean is right that in this case there is no other title
information (and no parallel other title information) at all. It is a
case of RDA 2.3.2.8.1, where elements like medium, key and number are
treated as part of the title proper. I'd say that this rules out Mac's
solution, where he interpreted the second bits as other title
information / parallel other title information.
What it comes down to is that we have a title proper in German, and a
parallel title proper in English. Only, the parts are intertwined
(probably for reasons of layout), so that the source of information gives:
First half of title proper, first half of parallel title proper, second
half of title proper, second half of parallel title proper
I'd argue that in this case a transposition (although, as I see it, it
isn't really a transposition) is not only allowed, but even necessary.
True, 2.3.1.4 says: "Transcribe a title as it appears on the source of
information". If we had only one title on the source, I would hesitate
to change the order of its parts. But here, we do not have one title,
but rather we have two of them - and each of them must be transcribed as
it appears on the source of information.
As I see it, the first one appears as "Trio in G-Dur für Violine,
Violoncello und Klavier", and the second one as "Trio in G major for
violin, cello and piano, B. 446". Note that by this, we haven't changed
the order of the words within the title proper and within the parallel
title proper. We only left out of the title proper the things which
obviously don't belong to it, and did the same with the parallel title
proper.
This can be backed by RDA 2.3.2.1:
"The title proper is the chief name of a resource (i.e., the title
normally used when citing the resource). (...) The title proper excludes
any parallel titles proper (see 2.3.3), other title information (see
2.3.4), and parallel other title information (see 2.3.5)."
By the way, if the commas are really there on the source of information,
I think they should better be left out in the transctiption in this case.
There is perhaps a small problem with the "B. 446", which appears only
once. I think that you would be free to decide between two options here:
- either transcribe it only once (as the third bit of the title proper
or of the parallel title proper)
- or transcribe it twice by applying RDA 1.7.7
Personally, I would favour the first option here (as it's not really
necessary to double the number in order to understand the transcription).
Heidrun
On 03.04.2013 23:57, Jean Harden wrote:
How should this 245 be ordered? The title page of the item says this:
Trio in G-Dur, Trio in G major, für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier, for
violin, cello and piano, B. 446
This particular example is complicated by being one of the sorts of music
titles that is made up of a type word, key, medium, and number, in which case
all those elements are included in the title proper. So in this case we have
essentially a title proper and a parallel title proper, but neither appears as
a unit on the title page.
Under AACR2, we followed the ISBD admonition to keep elements in one language
together, even if that meant some transposition from title page order. With
ISBD punctuation, that would look like this:
Trio in G-Dur für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier = Trio in G major, for
violin, cello, and piano, B. 446
RDA says simply to transcribe the title as it appears on the source of
information. RDA 2.3.3.4 talks about the situation of having medium, key, etc.
in multiple languages and says to transcribe information in the order it is on
the source of information, but the example does not show the languages
intertwined. The example has languages grouped together, but one cannot tell
whether they were already grouped together on the source of information or not.
What are we supposed to do under RDA?
Jean
Jean Harden
Music Catalog Librarian
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203
jean.har...@unt.edu
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