Karen -
Yes, you're right. An arrangement would have to be a new work with a relationship to the first work; in RDA, musical arrangements are included in the category "derivative works." In today's practice, an arrangement gets a separate authority record from the work it is an arrangement of, but in wording the headings of the two are very similar. (Currently, all arrangements of a given musical work are lumped together under one authority record. I can imagine that this situation might need to change, but I don't think that bridge has been crossed yet.)
I don't recall how (or whether) FRBR treats the idea of related works. The concept needs to be there, though. A musical arrangement is a different work from the unarranged work, but the two are related - often quite closely related.
Jean
>>> On 12/5/2007 at 12:34 PM, in message <4756EF42.5080408_at_kcoyle.net>, Karen Coyle
<kcoyle_at_KCOYLE.NET> wrote:
> 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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