Shab, sheet music collection project, 3/6/2015

Today I cataloged 90 more cards in the sheet music collection project.  I have a couple of issues which I think I may have brought up before but I can't remember now.  Row 543 has information in the publisher field about the administrator and distributor - I'm not sure if this belongs somewhere on the spreadsheet or if so, then where it does (for now it's in the publisher field highlighted in red - Jeanette, please let me know your thoughts on this or if it should be moved into a statement of responsibility field).

The other new issue I have is that a couple of the cards had the type of music it is in parenthesis next to the title (I think I've asked about this before?)  Rows 537 and 538 had the type of music or dance music it is (polka, march) in parenthesis next to the title.  Jeanette, I vaguely recall asking you about this once before but I can't remember what you said to do with it.  I think we either decided to leave it in the title field or move it to instrumentation or note field.  Could you please let me know what you think.  Could you also please check the instrumentation field in row 531 where I think it involves a similar issue - it had the words "andante elegante" but separated by a period next to the title field - I looked up the words and "andante" is a type of melody.  I've tentatively put that in the instrumentation field; please let me know if that's okay or not.  Thanks!

Shab, sheet music collection project, 2/27/2015

Today I cataloged 95 more cards of drawer 6 of the sheet music collection project.  I have several issues.  1) Row 399 - I'm not sure all of that belongs in the title field but upon Googling, all the words about it being a March nationale, etc., appear to be part of the title?  I'm not sure.  I'm also not sure where it would go if not the title field (note field?).  I'm also not sure about the French words I put in the note field.  2) Row 463, there appears to be a date in the title field in parenthesis (not the date of the music, which is vastly different and appears where it usually is) - for now I put the date just as it is in the title field and highlighted in red.  Jeanette, please let me know your thoughts on this because I've never seen a date in this field before.  3) Row 464, please check the title and publisher fields.  It's one of the foreign language cards so the information is all over the place and I'm not sure if it's in the correct places and also if the title in the brackets needs to be included on the spreadsheet.  4) Row 407 is another J.C. Penney bicentennial music card.  I'm starting to wonder if this could possibly be a series and as such needs to be included in the series field?  Jeanette, any thoughts on this?  Please let me know.  Thanks for all your feedback!  

Shab, sheet music collection project, 2/13/2015

Today I cataloged 62 more cards of drawer 6 of the sheet music collection project.  Row 368's title field - I'm not sure if Independence Day should be capitalized or not (I assumed yes since it's a proper holiday, Jeanette, please let me know if this is incorrect and needs changing).  Row 349 had a note saying "Includes U. S. marine air corps version."  I'm not sure if marine air corps. needs to be capitalized (it was on the card) or if it belongs in a note field as opposed to some other field but to me it looks like it belongs in the note field and wouldn't need capitalization of those words.  Again, Jeanette, please let me know if this is wrong.  Everything else was mostly routine; per my comment last week, I've started to put the "arranged by" information in the arranger column/field instead of the 245 statement of responsibility field.  Also, the title in row 394 includes words describing the type of music it is "lullaby fox trot" - not sure if this should stay in this field or be moved to the instrumentation or note field.  Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this.  Thanks!

Shab, sheet music collection project, 2/6/2015

Today I cataloged 80 more cards from drawer 6 of the sheet music collection project.  Here are the questions/issues I have this week: 1) one card (row 330) says "composed by xxxx and arranged for orchestra by xxxx".  I'm uncertain if this information belongs in the 245 field (I suspect not, though that is where I put it for now) or should be put in the co-composer and arranger fields instead.  Please let me know.  Similarly, another card (row 287) had a "translated by xxxx" on it.  Again, I'm not sure if this belongs in the 245 field - is there a field for translators of foreign language music?  2) The J.C. Penney bicentennial music cards are coming up again (row 314) so please let me know what you think about that row.  3) Also in row 287 was a peculiar language note which I've put in the languages (546) field for now.  Could you please review it and let me know what you think and if it's done correctly/belongs in the right place.  Thanks!

Shab, sheet music collection project, 1/30/2015

Today I cataloged 79 more cards of drawer 6 of the sheet music collection project.  There are more spelling discrepancies to check against the hard copy music upstairs (highlighted in red and yellow).  Jeanette, could you please also let me know what you think of the title for card/row 230 because it's confusing and I'm not sure if the whole of that info belongs there or also somewhere else.  I've changed the spreadsheet, per your request, to take the brackets and "n.d." out of the date/leader field, but it's still going to be on the previous spreadsheets because I didn't know about the mistake then.  Otherwise, the only question I have is what to do with information on the card that's not really instrumentation info per se, but more like a description of what the music is for, such as "two step" or "hesitation waltz song" (rows 199 and 231).  I don't know if they're supposed to be in the instrumentation field or note field or some other (for now I've put them in the note field; please let me know if this is incorrect and needs to be changed).  Thanks!  

Shab, sheet music collection project, 1/23/2015

Today I cataloged 70 more cards of drawer 6 of the sheet music collection.  Jeanette, could you please look at the card associated with row 139 (I've highlighted the whole row in red) - the information on this card was very unusual and all over the place.  I did my best but there were several pieces of information which I didn't know where they would go, if they go anywhere at all.  Otherwise, no particularly new questions came up.  I am confused occasionally about where certain pieces of information go if they're not in the field where they normally belong; for example, row 149: the card says it's "transcribed for cello and piano by..." etc.  I'm not sure if all that needs to be in the title field and whether or not it goes there, if that information should be elsewhere too (like the note field?)  It is another statement of responsibility piece of information (I think?) because the transcriber's name is given but there's no field on the spreadsheet for a transcriber.  Jeanette, please let me know your thoughts on this so I can fix it if need be.  Thanks!  

Shab, sheet music collection project, 1/16/21016

Today I managed to catalog 70 cards of drawer 6 of the sheet music collection project.  No real issues were brought up except a few of the cards (highlighted in red and yellow on the spreadsheet) will need to be checked against the hard copy music upstairs since the spelling of the names were contradictory and I couldn't figure out the correct spellings from researching on Google.  This is rows 47 and 48 and 85 and 86.  Everything else was routine.