[mb-style] RFC[?]: Update Classical Style Guide to account for'recital discs']

[Dave Smey]

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Subject: Re: [mb-style] RFC[?]: Update Classical Style Guide to account   
  for'recital discs' From:    "Dave Smey" <autodave at davesmey.com>
Date:    Mon, October 2, 2006 5:23 pm
To:      "Marco Sola" <marcosola at oksatcom.it>
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On Mon, October 2, 2006 4:45 pm, Marco Sola said:
>
> Long time ago I did a test conversion (which btw I did not reverted) and
asked for comments/veto. At that time no one agreed. A longest debate
and examples are on CSGD.
>
> Release is here:
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/ab41dfc4-faab-4e1c-ac7e-c07752dd3395.html
>
I can't really see the context very well, but it appears that the concern
was that this was before it was possible to have a seperate ReleaseArtist
and various TrackArtists?

> The problem that arises is here is to have a clear rule to say which
performers deserves this: there are releases that are really clearly
printed
> only to credit performers, mainly for opera. Thinking about it it seem
quite
> easy to tell who and who don't but in fact we have to admit this could lead
> to "eternal flames".
>

But it seems that saying it "may" be credited gives one-way permission. 
If you want to credit it that way, you may.  (And if somebody has a
problem with that, tough - the guideline says I can do it!)  But, that is
not the same thing as specifying that it "must" or "should" be done that
way.

It would be pretty difficult (and probably not worthwhile) to hammer out
some distinction of what releases definitely deserve this, and what ones
don't.  But I would say that, as I worded it, anything with multiple
composers and one clear performer might as well get that performer as
ReleaseArtist - it's either that or VA, which is no ReleaseArtist at all. 
Might as well file it under something rather than nothing.  This is how
big record stores tend to handle VA classical.

-D