[mb-style] CSG for Opera

Aaron Cooper cooperaa at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 21:43:27 UTC 2006


On 11/30/06, Cadalach <cadalach at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This evening I was ripping a couple of opera CDs and discovered that
> there seems to be next to no consistency in how people have entered
> operas into MB. So I think we ought to try to get something written
> into the CSG about this. There has been a little bit of debate on this
> at
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ClassicalStyleGuideDiscussion#head-6f242ed7573de4db5ae90cf0e53e26395303aab3
>
> but so far nothing has appeared in the CSG.
>
> Here's the recommendation I prefer...
>
> TitleOfOpera, Act X, Scene Y: TitleOfTrack
>
> Perhaps using Roman numerals for X and Arabic for Y, or perhaps just
> Arabic for both (which, from a brief look, seems quite common
> already)?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Best wishes,
> Don
>

Sounds about what I would expect.  Using commas to separate acts and
scenes seems to follow "PartNumberStyle".

-- 
-Aaron



More information about the Musicbrainz-style mailing list