Response to Letter from Arts and Humanities Citation IndexAuthor(s): Michael A. Keller and Carol A. LawrenceSource: Notes, Second Series, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Dec., 1980), pp. 455-456Published by: Music Library AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/939548 .

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Communications Communications

CORRECTIONS TO "MUSIC LITERATURE INDEXES IN REVIEW"

To the Editor: In our review of "Music Literature Indexes in Review," appearing in the March

1980 issue, the following errors appeared in the published text: p. 586, line 1: Example 1 should read Example 7 p. 586, line 10: In reference to an article by Newbould, not all of Example

7 was printed. Excluded was a section of the Permuterm Subject Index under "Schuberts" where the terms "E- major," "no.," "symphony," and "unfinished," refer to an article by B. Newbould.

Michael A. Keller Carol A. Lawrence Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853

RESPONSE TO LE'II'EK FROM ARTS AND HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX

To the Editor: We wish to thank Emanuel E. Garcia (see September 1980 issue) for his con-

structive response to our review of the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) in the March 1980 issue of Notes. We are gratified to see in the 1979 annual cumulation (already on the shelves as of May 1980) the use of the new designation "Music Score Review" in the Source Index. Although the first triennial issue for 1980 (available in mid-August) did not yet reflect the promised changes in record review citations and the treatment of composers' works in the Citation Index, we look forward to the implementation of those more complex improvements in later issues.

As Garcia points out, the scope of A&HCI's journal coverage has grown. As of the first 1980 triennial issue, two titles in dance have been added and twelve in music, including Archiv ffir Musikwissenschaft, Musikforschung, Nuove Rivista Musicale Italiana, and Opera (London). Most of the seven deletions would seem to be the result of cessations or interruptions in publication. We hope, however, that despite the long wait between issues, the Journal of Jazz Studies will find its way back into the fold. We wish to reiterate Garcia's invitation to readers to make recommendations to ArHCI, particularly with respect to the "core" journals which A&HCI intends to cover. We would also agree with Garcia's suggestion that A&HCl's systematic indexing of a large body of humanities literature provides music scholars with an opportunity to retrieve serendipitously articles on musical topics appearing in nonmusic journals.

With regard to Garcia's response to our remarks on editorial inconsistencies in the Permuterm Subject Index, it was not our intention to imply that varied and truncated entries (e.g., distinct entries for "Schubert," "Schubert, F," "Schubert, Franz," "Schubert, Franz Pe (truncated)," "Schubertian," and "Schuberts") are the result of faulty editing. Such vicissitudes are to be expected in natural language indexing, having both advantages and disadvantages for the searcher. It was the inconsistent exercising of editorial control which concerned us. The following will serve to illustrate the point.

CORRECTIONS TO "MUSIC LITERATURE INDEXES IN REVIEW"

To the Editor: In our review of "Music Literature Indexes in Review," appearing in the March

1980 issue, the following errors appeared in the published text: p. 586, line 1: Example 1 should read Example 7 p. 586, line 10: In reference to an article by Newbould, not all of Example

7 was printed. Excluded was a section of the Permuterm Subject Index under "Schuberts" where the terms "E- major," "no.," "symphony," and "unfinished," refer to an article by B. Newbould.

Michael A. Keller Carol A. Lawrence Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853

RESPONSE TO LE'II'EK FROM ARTS AND HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX

To the Editor: We wish to thank Emanuel E. Garcia (see September 1980 issue) for his con-

structive response to our review of the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) in the March 1980 issue of Notes. We are gratified to see in the 1979 annual cumulation (already on the shelves as of May 1980) the use of the new designation "Music Score Review" in the Source Index. Although the first triennial issue for 1980 (available in mid-August) did not yet reflect the promised changes in record review citations and the treatment of composers' works in the Citation Index, we look forward to the implementation of those more complex improvements in later issues.

As Garcia points out, the scope of A&HCI's journal coverage has grown. As of the first 1980 triennial issue, two titles in dance have been added and twelve in music, including Archiv ffir Musikwissenschaft, Musikforschung, Nuove Rivista Musicale Italiana, and Opera (London). Most of the seven deletions would seem to be the result of cessations or interruptions in publication. We hope, however, that despite the long wait between issues, the Journal of Jazz Studies will find its way back into the fold. We wish to reiterate Garcia's invitation to readers to make recommendations to ArHCI, particularly with respect to the "core" journals which A&HCI intends to cover. We would also agree with Garcia's suggestion that A&HCl's systematic indexing of a large body of humanities literature provides music scholars with an opportunity to retrieve serendipitously articles on musical topics appearing in nonmusic journals.

With regard to Garcia's response to our remarks on editorial inconsistencies in the Permuterm Subject Index, it was not our intention to imply that varied and truncated entries (e.g., distinct entries for "Schubert," "Schubert, F," "Schubert, Franz," "Schubert, Franz Pe (truncated)," "Schubertian," and "Schuberts") are the result of faulty editing. Such vicissitudes are to be expected in natural language indexing, having both advantages and disadvantages for the searcher. It was the inconsistent exercising of editorial control which concerned us. The following will serve to illustrate the point.

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MLA Notes, December 1980

Article as published: "Schubert's Sonata Form and Brahms's First Maturity" (by James Webster)

Same article as cited in the A&HCI Source Index (1978 annual cumulation): "Schubert sonata-form and Brahms 1st maturity"

Note A&HCl's deletion of the "'s" and the insertion of the hyphen in "sonata form." Permuterm Subject Index terms will therefore be: "Schubert," "Brahms," "sonata-form" (as one word due to hyphenation), "1st," and "maturity."

Article as published: "Die Sonatenform bei Schubert. Der erste Satz des G-dur-Quartetts D887" (by Carl Dahlhaus)

Same article as translated and cited in the A&HCI Source Index (1978 annual cumulation):

"Sonata form in Schubert-- st-movement of Schubert G-major quartet D887"

The lack of a hyphen in "sonata form" in this case will cause it to file as two words in the Permuterm Subject Index.

Ironically, articles by these same two authors appear in the 1979 annual cumula- tion of A&HCI with the editing of the term "sonata form" precisely reversed:

Article as published: "Schubert's Sonata Form and Brahms's First Maturity (II)" (by James Webster)

Same article as cited in the A&HCI Source Index (1979 annual cumulation): "Schubert sonata form and Brahms 1st maturity .2."

Note the lack of a hyphen "sonata form" in this instance.

Article as published: "Der rhetorische Formbegriff H. Chr. Kochs und die Theorie der Sonatenform" (by Carl Dahlhaus)

Same article as translated and cited in the A&HCI Source Index (1979 annual cumulation):

"Koch, MC, rhetorical approach and the theory of sonata-form"

As a result of the editor's creating one term, "sonata-form," for one article and allowing "sonata" and "form" to remain as separate terms in the other, the Webster and Dahlhaus articles will not be found together in the Permuterm Subject Index under "sonata," "form," "sonata-form," or "Schubert," all subjects which the two articles have in common. In this instance the inconsistency is due not to natural language indexing but to editorial practice.

We indeed appreciate A&HCI's attention to the special complexities and frustrations of handling musical materials and the willingness of its editors to engage in constructive exchange with users of its unique and valuable product.

Michael A. Keller Carol A. Lawrence Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 6 September 1980

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