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OBERLIN LCRI CUMULATED page 25-71
rev. 12-10
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245 10 $a Vocalise, op. 38, for soprano, clarinet, piano,
violin, violoncello ...
240 10 $a Vocalise, $m clarinet, piano trio acc. ...
(Accompanying ensemble is not a standard combination
although it includes one)
25.30B4:CSB108
Individual instruments
Use the following instrument names: violoncello, English horn,
contrabassoon, and timpani.
The list of terms for keyboard instruments in this rule is illustrative, not
restrictive. Other terms may be used as necessary.
clavichord, 3 hands
harpsichords (3)
player piano
If the application of 25.30B4 results in the separation of a composer's
works between harpsichord or clavichord on the one hand and piano on the other, choose
the instrument for which the major portion of the works of a given type was intended and
use that instrument name for all works of the type. If the "major" instrument is not
apparent, use "keyboard instrument".
25.30B5:CSB108
Groups of instruments
Use “winds” in uniform titles for chamber music combinations only when it is
either not possible (e.g., because of the three-element limitation in 25.30B1) or not
more informative to use “woodwinds” or “brasses” together with the names of individual
instruments. Specifically:
1) For works for two different woodwind instruments and two
different brass instruments, state the medium of performance simply as “winds.” Do not
list the woodwind instruments individually and group the brass instruments (e.g. “flute,
oboe, brasses”) or group the woodwind instruments and list the brass instruments
individually (e.g., “woodwinds, trumpets (2), horn”), since the choice of which to list
and which to group is arbitrary; do not use “woodwinds, brasses,” since this would convey
no additional information.
2) For works for two different woodwind instruments and three or
more different brass instruments or for two different brass instruments and three or more
different woodwind instruments, list the two and group the others.
240 10 $a Serenade, $m woodwinds, horn, trombone ...
240 10 $a Suite, $m flutes (2), oboe, brasses ...
3) For works for two or more different woodwind instruments, two or
more different brass instruments, and one other instrument or group of instruments, use
“winds,” not “woodwinds, brasses.”
240 10 $a Suite, $m piano, winds