031 Musical Incipits Information

Field definition and scope:

Field 031 is used to contain coded data representing the musical incipit for music using established notation schemes that employ ordinary ASCII symbols. It is primarily used to identify music manuscripts, but can be applied to any material containing music.

The National level record requirement for this field is Optional.

Field 031 is repeatable.

Guidelines for applying content designators:

For indicator and subfield code definitions and examples, National level (NLR) record requirements, and designator repeatability, see table below:

Position	Description	NLR	Repeatability
Field 031	Musical Incipits Information	O	R
Indicator:
First	Undefined; contains a blank	M
Second	Undefined; contains a blank	M

Subfield code:
$a	Number of work	A	NR
$b	Number of movement	A	NR
$c	Number of excerpt	A	NR
$d	Caption or heading	O	R
$e	Role	O	NR
$g	Clef	O	NR
$m	Voice/instrument	O	NR
$n	Key signature	O	NR
$o	Time signature	O	NR
$p	Musical notation	O	NR
$q	General note	O	R
$r	Key or mode	O	NR
$s	Coded validity note	O	R
$t	Text incipit	A	R
$u	Uniform Resource Identifier	O	R
$y	Link text	O	R
$z	Public note	O	R
$2	System code	O	NR
$6	Linkage	A	NR
$8	Field link and sequence number	O	R

See: Examples for this field.

LC Guidelines:

031 Musical Incipits Information