[mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Release Title
Brian Schweitzer
brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 05:30:33 UTC 2008
> When classical discs are reissued with new cover art or new
> "spellings" of the works on the disc, http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalReleaseTitleStyle
> provides a means of grouping them all together under one release
> with a common release title derived from the works on the release in a
> specified format.
>
> Otherwise we might get the following:
>
> Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3
> Symphonies Nos. 1-2-3
> Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 / No. 2 / No. 3
> Symphonies 1-3
> ... and so on.
>
> ClassicalReleaseTitleStyle let's us group these all under one release
> (assuming same performers and same recording) as "Symphonies Nos. 1-3".
Yes, and I think what then needs to be clarified is that CSG's Release
title guidelines are intended to help guide to some consistency (just
like, say, "vol." --> ", Volume"), to avoid the above, not to
completely replace the title.
The question then is, given "The Five Symphonies" on one release, if
the reissue is just "Symphonies 1-5", how does that work into this
concept? Do we keep "The Five Symphonies" as somehow a more "real"
title than "Symphony Nos. 1-5"? And how would we describe this so
it's non-ambiguous?
Brian
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