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3-D films, Abridgments -- By-laws
Accompaniments (Music)
Resources that accompany compositions that have been issued without the principal part or parts, or that accompany music that is normally monophonic.
Acrostics (Poetry)
Poetry in which particular letters can be read vertically to reveal a hidden message.
Acting editions
Plays with full stage directions that are intended for personnel directly involved in a theatrical production.
Action and adventure television programs
Activity books
Works that consist wholly or chiefly of puzzles, word games, coloring pages, instructions for simple science or craft projects, etc.
Actualities (Motion pictures)
Short, unedited, silent films, primarily from the period of early cinema, that portray daily life or specific events or occurrences as filmed by a camera in a fixed location without commentary.
Administrative decisions
Decisions and opinions of administrative agencies. For reported and unreported court decisions, opinions, judgments, etc. see Court decisions and opinions.
Advent music
Music that is traditionally associated with Advent.
Aerial photographs
Photographs taken from the air. For representations of cities or landscapes portrayed as if viewed from above see Aerial views.
Aerial views
Representations of cities or landscapes portrayed as if viewed from above. For photographs taken from the air see Aerial photographs.
Aeronautical charts
Maps giving information intended for use in air navigation, such as compass rose, isogonic lines, location of landing fields, beacons, hazards to air navigation, etc.
Aircraft sounds
Recordings of the sounds of all types of aircraft, including planes, helicopters, dirigibles, etc.
Airs de cour
French secular songs composed between 1571 and 1660 for voice and lute or for 4-8 unaccompanied voices.
Albums (Books)
Books with blank pages that are used to collect, display, and preserve images, text, notated music, keepsakes, etc.
Aleatory music
Musical compositions created by chance methods or that may be performed in random or indeterminate style.
All Saints' Day music
Music traditionally associated with All Saints' Day.
Alternate takes (Sound recordings)
Recordings containing material that differs from the commonly issued material recorded at the same session, or recordings containing multiple versions of one or more recorded selections.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Fiction in which the plot or setting assumes an alternative outcome of an historical event. For nonfiction that presents alternative outcomes of historical events and subsequent changes in history see Counterfactual histories.
Ambient sounds
Recordings of sounds of the surrounding environment external to an audio system that are often recorded separately and mixed into other recordings to enhance live effect.
Animal fiction
Fiction whose main characters are animals that may be anthropomorphized.
Animated films
Films that create the illusion of movement in drawings, clay, inanimate objects, or the like, through an animation technique.
Animated television programs
Television programs that create the illusion of movement in drawings, clay, inanimate objects, or the like, through an animation technique.
Annals and chronicles
Disscussions of events written in chronological order. For lists of events arranged by date or time see Chronologies.
Anthems
Choral settings of religious or moral texts that are performed in liturgical or ceremonial settings.
Anthology films
Feature-length films made up of various episodes or stories that are usually connected by a theme, event, location or original author and often have a wrap-around tale. For films that are composed of preexisting published or unpublished films, or portions thereof, see Compilation films.
Apocalyptic comics
Comics set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event. For comics set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc., see Dystopian comics.
Apocalyptic fiction
Fiction set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event. For fiction set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc., see Dystopian fiction.
Apocalyptic films
Films set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event. For films set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc., see Dystopian films.
Apocryphal works
Works that are excluded from the sacred canon of a religion, denomination, sect, etc., e.g., the apocryphal gospels; the Tripiṭaka apocryphal works.
Apologetic writings
Works that explain a religion, denomination, sect, etc., and defend it from external criticism.
Art music
Music composed in any classical, learned, and/or court tradition, in cultures that have a division between art and folk music. For popular and folk music in cultures that distinguish it from art music see Popular music; Folk music, or a subgenre of either.
Artists' books
Books that are produced by artists and intended as visual art objects. For sculptural works that mimic the format or structure of the book, see Book objects.
Ascension Day music
Music that is traditionally associated with Ascension Day.
Audiobooks
Recordings of oral readings of books.
Autos sacramentales
Spanish allegorical religious plays of the 16-18th centuries performed on the feast of Corpus Christi.
Award presentations (Motion pictures)
Ayres
English lute-songs of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Bagatelles (Music)
Short, light pieces of instrumental music that are generally created and published in sets.
Ballad operas
English dramatic form of the mid-18th century, in which songs set to traditional or popular melodies were integrated into the dramatic structure of a play.
Ballets (Music)
Musical works composed for, or adapted as, ballets.
Bellydance music
Musical compositions composed or arranged for belly dancing.
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament (Music)
Bestiaries
Collections of medieval allegories featuring animals that were intended to teach Christian morals.
Bible fiction
Imaginative fiction in which characters and settings are taken from the Bible. For paraphrases of Biblical texts in story form see Bible stories.
Bible stories
Paraphrases of Biblical texts in story form. For imaginative fiction in which characters and settings are taken from the Bible see Bible fiction.
Bildungsromans
Fiction depicting the development of a character from youth to adulthood.
Biographical drama
Plays that depict the lives of real people interspersed with fictional characters and events. For plays in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names see Drames à clef.
Biographical fiction
Fiction that depicts the lives of real people interspersed with fictional characters and events. For fiction in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names see Romans à clef.
Biographical films
Films that depict lives of real people. For films in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names see Films à clef.
Biographical television programs
Fiction or nonfiction television programs that depict the lives of real people. For fictional television programs in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names see Drames à clef (Television programs).
Black humor
Literary works that derive humor from suffering or the absurdity of existence in a bitter, ironic, morbid, or grimly satiric way.
By-laws
Rules or administrative provisions adopted by an organization for its internal governance and its external dealings. For by-laws established by cities, towns, or other local governmental entities see Municipal ordinances.
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