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ABSTRACT
This is a thematic representation analysis of music scores, in order to recover
information in an educational approach regarding music and information
science. The comprehension that the librarianship area has about the musical
material is insufficient, because of the information professionals' lack of specific
knowledge – either the ones who manage systems or the ones who use them to
input data about the institutions' musical heaps. Problems found in the
librarianship practice are pointed and discussed based on the precepts of
musical theory. The central focus of the thematic description is the field
"subject" and its concept in both areas. After a critical analysis, confirmations
were empirically obtained, through examples of cataloguing formats and
recovering trials of the score's registries of ECA/USP's and IA/UNESP's
databases. It's proved that the thematic representation of the scores, on the
way it's recommended by the librarianship, doesn't meet the music researcher's
needs and therefore it's necessary that they include fields that meet the specific
characteristics of the material's description. In order to replace the field
"subject", it's suggested the field "form/gender" - which gives extremely
important information to music researcher's and that doesn't receive the
deserved importance when the documents are indexed.
Key-words: Musical documentation; Thematic representation; Scores;
Educational approach; Information retrieval.