[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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