Cataloguing Church Music A study of The Düben Collection Dübensamlingen

rary of Sweden Statens musikbibliotek [51][pdf.gif] The aim of this study is to investigate how bibliographic description of music materials has improved through history. The historical aspect is given by a study of bibliographic data in different catalogues of a specific collection. The aim is also to understand what specific problems will arise in the work of cataloguing music materials and how the problems are discussed in the literature. The study is focusing of church music material and the history of churchmusic is therefore given an exposition. The origin of musical notation, which took place within the church, is also discussed. The empirical study is performed in two specific collections, mainly in The Düben Collection at the University of Uppsala but also at The Music Library in Stockholm. The catalogues in each collection are studied. In the discussion a comparison is given by the empirical material and the questions of this study. The empirical material should be seen as good examples rather than general conclusions. Churchmusic and musical notation has jointly improved over the years, which is seen in the improvement of music material. The art of cataloguing is influenced by the change of its material. By examining the two collections we can see how the bibliographic data has changed depending of the aim of the catalogues. Examples from the collections show how the problems with cataloguing music material are solved in each collection.Uppsatsnivå: