[mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Release Title

[Aaron Cooper]

On 12-Feb-08, at 7:53 PM, Brian Schweitzer wrote:

> Trying to clean out the last of the issues...
>
> Classical Release Titles:
>
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalReleaseTitleStyle
>
> Presents a structure of:
>
> MainTitle [SubTitle(s)] [VolumeNumber [VolumeTitle]] [ [?BoxNumber
> [?BoxTitle]] DiscNumber [DiscTitle]] [FeaturingArtist]
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Unresolved Problems:
>
> * Let's ignore the (artists) part here - that's what cooperaa's
> proposal is trying to address, I think.  Let's just deal with all the
> rest of it.
>
> 1) Example like
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/3261a468-953d-4dba-817e-a18e1d1e98b4.html
> where the work mentioned (Symphony 9) is actually only a single
> movement from the symphony.
>
> - My sense, there's no link, but if the title on the box was "The Best
> of Beethoven", that should be the title, and not us cramming the rest
> in - and thus, no need to worry about this.  :)

Doesn't make sense to me either, unless "Symphony Nos. 5, 9" was  
written on the cover.  Just use the album's title.

> 4) http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6379094 - this is
> essentially the same type of point as the Requem example above: is
> "Symphony No. 9" a title or does it need "restructuring"?

I think we had some consensus on using one piece of identifying  
information (No. 9) for example.  Once you have Symphony No. 9 there's  
no need for "in D minor".

> 5) How to list multiple works in titles?  See CSGD #25 (
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalStyleGuideDiscussion?highlight=%28classical%29#head-72d53d00469f041ea3a037012f514f11483a60de
> ).
>
> - I've seen most editors using "Klavierkonzerte Nos. 2-3", or
> "Klavierkonzerte No. 2-3, 5, 9"; to me this seems cleaner than any of
> the three alternatives suggested there.

I think we have it outlined pretty well in http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalReleaseTitleStyle

For example: Symphonies Nos. 1-3, 4, 6-9, 12


-Aaron