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047 - Form of Musical Composition Code (R)


MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise
2007

Codes that indicate the form of musical composition of printed and manuscript music and musical sound recordings when character positions 18 and 19 (Form of composition) of field 008 (Fixed-Length Data Elements) for music contains the code mu for multiple forms or for non-MARC codes. MARC codes are listed under field 008 Music, /18-19 (Form of composition).

Indicators
First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Source of code
# - MARC musical composition code
7 - Source specified in subfield $2
Subfield Codes
$a - Form of musical composition code (R)
$2 - Source of code (NR)
A code that identifies the source from which the musical composition code was assigned. Code from: Musical Composition Form Code Source Codes.
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
See description of this subfield in Appendix A: Control Subfields.
Examples
047 #7$argg$2[code for controlled list]
047 ##$aor$act
047 ##$arg$app
047 #7$argg$2[code for controlled list]
047 #7$ahum$2[code for controlled list]

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