Musical Composition

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Find the fields, subfields, notes, and product availability for the Musical Composition word (mc:) and phrase (mc=) indexes.

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Word (mc:)

Connexion

Label	mc:
Search?	Yes
Browse?	---
Examples	mc:jazz To find Ballads from 1990 on, type mc:bd and yr:1990-
Fields/Subfields	006/01-02 if 006/00 is c d i j Comp (008/18-19) if Type (Leader/06) is c d i j 047 a
Qualifier index?	No
Notes	Use coded values available for fixed field element Comp/Form of composition. See OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for a list of codes. The musical composition codes listed by IAML are valid in subfield a.

FirstSearch and Collection Manager query collections

Label	mc:
Search?	Yes
Browse?	---
Examples	mc:jazz To find Ballads from 1990 on, type mc:bd and yr:1990- You can also use the full term — mc:ballads and yr:1990
Fields/Subfields	006/01-02 if 006/00 is c d i j Comp (008/18-19) if Type (Leader/06) is c d i j 047 a
Qualifier index?	No
Notes	Use coded values available for fixed field element Comp/Form of composition. See OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for a list of codes. The musical composition codes listed by IAML are valid in subfield a.

WorldShare and WorldCat Discovery

Label	mc:
Search?	Yes
Browse?	---
Examples	mc:jazz To find Ballads from 1990 on, type mc:bd AND yr:1990-
Fields/Subfields	006/01-02 if 006/00 is c d i j Comp (008/18-19) if Type (Leader/06) is c d i j 047 a
Qualifier index?	No
Notes	Use coded values available for fixed field element Comp/Form of composition. See OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for a list of codes. The musical composition codes listed by IAML are valid in subfield a.

WorldCat.org

Label	mc:
Search?	Yes
Browse?	---
Examples	mc:jazz To find Ballads from 1990 on, type mc:bd AND yr:1990-
Fields/Subfields	006/01-02 if 006/00 is c d i j Comp (008/18-19) if Type (Leader/06) is c d i j 047 a
Qualifier index?	No
Notes	Use coded values available for fixed field element Comp/Form of composition. See OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for a list of codes. The musical composition codes listed by IAML are valid in subfield a.

Phrase (mc=)

Connexion

Label	mc=
Search?	Yes
Browse?	---
Examples	mc=folk music mc=chants other and yr:1940-4
Fields/Subfields	006/01-02 if 006/00 is c d i j Comp (008/18-19) if Type (Leader/06) is c d i j 047 a
Qualifier index?	No
Notes	Use terms available for fixed field element Comp/Form of composition. See OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for a list of terms. Performs an unanchored phrase search.

FirstSearch and Collection Manager query collections

Label	mc=
Search?	Yes
Browse?	---
Examples	mc=folk music mc=chants other and yr:1940-4
Fields/Subfields	006/01-02 if 006/00 is c d i j Comp (008/18-19) if Type (Leader/06) is c d i j 047 a
Qualifier index?	No
Notes	Use terms available for fixed field element Comp/Form of composition. See OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for a list of terms. Performs an unanchored phrase search.

WorldShare and WorldCat Discovery

Label	mc=
Search?	Yes
Browse?	---
Examples	mc=folk music mc=chants other AND yr:1940-4
Fields/Subfields	006/01-02 if 006/00 is c d i j Comp (008/18-19) if Type (Leader/06) is c d i j 047 a
Qualifier index?	No
Notes	Use terms available for fixed field element Comp/Form of composition. See OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for a list of terms. Performs an unanchored phrase search.

WorldCat.org

Label	mc=
Search?	Yes
Browse?	---
Examples	mc=folk music mc=chants other AND yr:1940-4
Fields/Subfields	006/01-02 if 006/00 is c d i j Comp (008/18-19) if Type (Leader/06) is c d i j 047 a
Qualifier index?	No
Notes	Use terms available for fixed field element Comp/Form of composition. See OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for a list of terms. Performs an unanchored phrase search.