Catalogação de partituras musicais: reflexões e aplicações em acervos institucionais

Abstract

The scores are musical records that have unique characteristics for their production, circulation and use. The objective of this article is to describe and reflect on the main stages of the treatment of musical scores of the collection of Coral USP. This is an exploratory-descriptive work and characterized as an experience report, which presents elements of score cataloging with reference to RDA, the MARC metadata standard, the theoretical reference about the studies about musical notation and the users' needs identified in the informational environment. The organization process of the music score library followed a strategic planning developed in three stages: 1) diagnosis; 2) training; and 3) actions. It was verified that the examples presented denote the possibility of creating descriptive records that represent the scores as documents that can be retrieved in bibliographic management systems. It is concluded that the reading of documents and the cataloging of scores require knowledge of the document structure and musical notation from the cataloger to ensure that the information needs of users are met, especially in the digital environment.