[mb-style] CSG

[Lukáš Lalinský]

On Ut, 2008-02-26 at 18:48 +0100, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> So which titles should we use? The title of the first release? What if
> it was wrong? What if it was so old it never got entered in MB? The
> title of the last release? No good, these are often budget releases,
> simplified or completely wrong. CSG solved this by choosing to use
> normalized titles, for the work as well as for the movements (of
> course, I am simplifying a little here). A track name should always
> contain the normalized work name followed by the normalized movement
> name. Exactly what MB does in other musical domains. We only took our
> reference somewhere else, outside what is printed on the releases,
> because this varies so widely (and wildly) that we felt no rule based
> on liner notes would really work. 

I guess that leads to a question what is normalized and what is not? Is
changing "Piano Concerto", "Klavierkonzert" or "Klavírny koncert" to
"Concerto for Piano" really just normalization? Why should we prefer the
English title on a German release?

Lukas
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