Karen-
I believe that FRBR supports the following analysis (although it's not clearly specified):
1. Musical scores are expressions of musical works.
2. Musical performances are expressions of musical works.
[note: in most cases, a performance is based on a score; an exception would be improvised music]
3. Arrangements are either:
a. Expressions of musical works, or
b. New works
[This depends on just how much "arrangement" vs. "creation" takes place. Examples include Liszt transcriptions vs. Liszt paraphrases.]
4. Musical performances of arrangements (that fall into the expression category) are "expressions of expressions" -- or even expressions [performance] of expressions [score] of expressions [arrangement]!
Kathy Glennan
Music Cataloger
University of Maryland
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From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_KCOYLE.NET>
> Jean Harden wrote:
> > * work: J. S. Bach*s Six suites for unaccompanied cello (authority
> > record)
> >
> >
> > - expression1: the music as performed by Janos Starker and recorded in
> > 1963 and 1965 (no such record exists now, but the information may be
> > included in a bib record)
> >
> ...snip ...
> >
> >
> > - expression2: the music as performed by Yo-Yo Ma and recorded in 1983
> > (no such record exists now, but the information may be included in a bib
> > record)
> >
>
> Jean, so if performances are expressions, does that mean that a new
> arrangement is a different work? Because otherwise you have no place for
> the performance of a new/different arrangement, right?
>
> kc
>
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