| COMARC/B | December | 2014 |
This field contains one or more six-character numbers corresponding to the duration of a sound recording, of a portion of a sound recording, or of the estimated duration of a composition as stated on a printed music score.
| FIELD/SUBFIELD | REPEATABILITY | ||
| 127 | Duration of sound recordings and printed music | nr | |
| a | Duration | r | |
This subfield contains a six-character numeric string representing the duration of a sound recording, or of a section of a sound recording, or of the estimated duration of a performance of printed music. The time is divided into three sub-elements, each two characters long, representing the number of hours, minutes and seconds.
The durations of sound recordings and printed and manuscript music are recorded in coded form in field 127. The durations may also be found in eye-readable form in field 300 – General note (see example 3) or in field 327 – Contents note (see example 4).
127 ⊔⊔ a003100 a001839 (The duration of a sound recording with two compositions, one lasting 31 minutes, the other lasting 18 minutes and 39 seconds.) 127 ⊔⊔ a024600 (The duration of a sound recording lasting 2 hours and 46 minutes.) 127 ⊔⊔ a001356 a002005 300 ⊔⊔ aDurations: 13:56; ca. 20:05 (A printed music score with two pieces, the first lasting 13 minutes and 56 seconds, the second lasting approximately 20 minutes and 5 seconds. A note is also present in a general note in field 300.) 127 ⊔⊔ a001635 a000957 a001049 327 ⊔⊔ aQuatrain II (16:35) aWater ways (9:57) aWaves (10:49) (A sound recording with three selections. The durations are also present in a contents note.) *
127 ⊔⊔ a001530 (A music score for a composition lasting 15 minutes and 30 seconds.) *
127 ⊔⊔ a011556 215 ⊔⊔ a1 CD (75 min, 56 sek) (An oratorio on CD lasting one hour, 15 minutes and 56 seconds.) *
127 ⊔⊔ a012513 a005846 215 ⊔⊔ a2 CD-ja (85 min, 13 sek; 58 min, 46 sek) (A sound recording on two CDs; subfield 127a is therefore repeated.)