A guide to archival description of notated music for librarians, archivists, students, and others with responsibility for music collections; intended for use in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists’ Describing Archives: A Content Standard. Contents include a broad overview of music description in an archival context, an extensive…[Read more]

This supplement to the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS) was endorsed by SAA in December 2019. The Guidelines contain extensions to DACS rules and examples of their application for the description of notated music.