Merci Daniel! I did not catch that those definitions had been changed.
Adam ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Adam L. Schiff Principal Cataloger University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 (206) 543-8409 (206) 685-8782 fax asch...@u.washington.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Paradis Daniel wrote:
The current definitions of librettist and lyricist in Appendix are not quite clear and have therefore been revised as follows in 6JSC/ALA/13/Sec final (http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/6JSC-ALA-13-Sec-final.pdf) (to be integrated in the Toolkit in the July update): librettist An author of the words of an opera or other musical stage work, or an oratorio. For an author of the words of just the songs from a musical, see lyricist. lyricist An author of the words of a popular song, including a song or songs from a musical. For an author of just the dialogue from a musical, see librettist. So if the same person wrote the book (i.e. the dialogue) and the lyrics of a musical, the correct term would be librettist. If the book and the lyrics were written by different persons, librettist would be used for the author of the dialogue and lyricist for the author of the lyrics. Daniel Paradis Bibliothécaire Direction du traitement documentaire des collections patrimoniales Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec 2275, rue Holt Montréal (Québec) H2G 3H1 Téléphone : 514 873-1101, poste 3721 Télécopieur : 514 873-7296 daniel.para...@banq.qc.ca http://www.banq.qc.ca <http://www.banq.qc.ca/> ________________________________ De: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access de la part de Adam Schiff Date: mar. 2013-06-11 02:10 À: RDA-L@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca Objet : [RDA-L] Relationship designator for author of the book for a musical Hi all, What are people using for the author of the book for a musical? The RDA designator "librettist" seems to be for the sung words in a dramatic musical work, rather than the spoken text. I guess perhaps the correct term would be "author"? Or would people just use "librettist" for both the words to the songs in a musical as well as the words spoken that aren't sung? Or perhaps use "lyricist" for the author of the words to the songs and "librettist" for the author of the spoken words? Thanks, Adam Schiff Principal Cataloger University of Washington Libraries asch...@uw.edu
