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2.6.1

What are musical compositions.(cont'd)

III

Evaluation of textual content.(cont'd)

b.

Music with text. Where the copy deposited consists of Class E material combined with textual material, the practice to follow depends upon the nature of the textual material:

1.

If the work consists of regis­trable music with a relatively small amount of incidental text (e.g., brief notes about the composer, references to old music from which the theme is derived, etc.), registration be made in Class E in either published or unpublished form.

2.

If the work is submitted as un­published and it consists of registrable music and a substantial amount of text which is in the public domain (e.g., incidental music for & reading of Poe's poems), registration be made in Class E in either published or unpublished form.

3.

If the work is submitted as un­published and it consists of registrable music and a substantial amount of original text which is registrable only in published form, the applicant will be requested to redeposit the manuscript with the text omitted and to file a new appli­cation omitting any reference to the text.

4.

If the work is submitted as un­published and the text consists of a work prepared for oral delivery (e.g., a monolog with musical accompaniment; a musical composition with narration) the

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