MusicScoreType

New item type proposal: Music Score

Explanation

English Name: Music Score
Zotero Name: musicScore
Fields:
Mainly like “Book”/book
“ISMN”/ismn identifier. Perhaps needs a new field in CSL? Is it possible to have both an ISMN and an ISBN?
Arranger, composer, lyricist, librettist as creator roles. Not sure about CSL for them.
“Number”/number, the opus number, often using a system specific to the composer.
“Composition Date”/compositionDate, different from publication date, mapped to “event-date” in CSL. This distinction could be made for other types as well, even book— perhaps it shouldn’t be made here.
“Key”/key
“Instrumentation”/instrumentation

In light of the comment that “[i]deally, a document type for scores would permit individual entries for each piece in a compilation, otherwise every piece needs its own entry”, I wonder if we should be treating this more like a book section or like a book (i.e., part of a whole, or itself a whole). I’m inclined to treat it as the latter and treat the relationship of scores in compilations to the compilations themselves as part of the hierarchical model at a later date.

Implications for CSL
Unclear. The creator roles certainly need to be mapped to something — either existing roles or new ones.

Discussion
asallen on the forums writes:
Music catalogers said that there are two unique items for musical scores, and they gave me MARC field numbers for them:
028 = publisher numbers and plate numbers
024 = ISMN # (like ISBN, but not around for as much time, so not all scores have them)
As I mentioned in previous posts, just the ability to have composer in the author field, along with lyricist/librettist, should be very useful. Also, a unique “musical score” icon would be helpful for quick identification purposes as well.

Originally proposed here.
More discussion with proposed fields

Style guides
University of Virginia Music Library
University of Western Ontario Library