OK, I oversimplified for the purposes of email. Kathy Glennan wrote a much better answer. Arrangements can indeed be either new works or expressions of existing works. If you call an arrangement an expression, then you do need to have multiple types of expressions.
Jean
>>> On 12/5/2007 at 2:26 PM, in message <4756B52F.397C.0047.0_at_library.unt.edu>,
Jean Harden <JHARDEN_at_LIBRARY.UNT.EDU> wrote:
> 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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