Deborah LeeEmail: deborah.lee@courtauld.ac.uk

CIG Conference, Glasgow, September 2008

Classifying musical performance: the application of faceted classification principles

to concert programmes

>>1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes

2. Issues in arranging concert programmes3. Arrangement theories4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of

division5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript

triumvirate

1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes

>>2. Issues in arranging concert programmes

3. Arrangement theories4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of

division5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript

triumvirate

2. Issues in arranging concert programmes

o Why classify?

o Types of information resource

1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes

2. Issues in arranging concert programmes

>>3. Arrangement theories

4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

3. Arrangement theories

Bibliographic• Characteristic of division: generic name

of the aspect of item used to arrange collection, e.g. “language”, “literary form”

• Scattering: inevitable process where identical aspects not part of the first characteristic of division are deposited across a collection

• Distributed relatives: name of identical aspects occurring in multiple places in a collection, caused by scattering

Menges concert programmes

Solo Chamber Other

Venue a Venue b Venue a Venue b Venue a Venue b

Date a Date b Date a Date b … Date a Date b … Date a Date b

Characteristic:

Performer

Venue

Date

3. Arrangement theories

Menges concert programmes

Solo Chamber Other

Venue a Venue b Venue a Venue b Venue a Venue b

Date a Date b Date a Date b … Date a Date b … Date a Date b

Characteristic:

Performer

Venue

Date

3. Arrangement theories

Same date, different venues

1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes

2. Issues in arranging concert programmes

>>3. Arrangement theories

4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

3. Arrangement theories

Archival Provenance: arrangement according

to source of the collection; items from the same source are kept together

Ephemera collections Arrangement by form: programmes,

posters, tickets etc. kept in separate sequences

1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes

2. Issues in arranging concert programmes3. Arrangement theories

>>4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

Concert programme collection

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4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of division

1. Defining and dissecting concert programmes

2. Issues in arranging concert programmes3. Arrangement theories4. Model 1: Universal characteristics of

division

>>5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

Event a concert exists in temporal and spatial planes, but not

in the physical plane Object

contains information about the event exists in the physical plane and has physical

attributes Manuscript

a particular exemplar of an object exists in the physical plane and has physical

attributes intellectually different from all other

manuscripts

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

Event layer Date of concert Time of concert Geographic location Concert venue Concert genre Repertoire Performers and performing groups Concert-promoters/concert-giving

societies

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

Object layer Form of object Size Programme notes Pictorial evidence Advertisements Seating plans Ticket prices

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

Manuscript layer Provenance Custodial history Storage type Comparative characteristics Annotations and signatures Copy number of programme

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate

5. Model 2: The event/object/manuscript triumvirate