[mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement) of types and tempos

[Aaron Cooper]

On 31-Jan-08, at 4:39 PM, Leiv Hellebo wrote:
> Aaron Cooper wrote:
>> On 31-Jan-08, at 4:10 AM, Leiv Hellebo wrote:
>>> David K. Gasaway wrote:
>>>> I've been trying (unsuccessfully?) to frame these discussions in  
>>>> the perspective of the average user.  My views may or may not be  
>>>> representative, but I'd like to know that these folks have been  
>>>> given due consideration.
>>>
>>> Me too. On behalf of both me, and others in my household who're  
>>> going to look for this or that piece of Mozart... (At least I hope  
>>> they will :)
>>>
>>> And I'd like to throw in yet another consideration:
>>>
>>> Deviating from what is printed on sleeves is not something we  
>>> should do without good reasons for it. (Yes, we do it very often  
>>> already by imposing some common formatting.)
>>>
>>> This streamlining of the editing process seems to entail that we  
>>> shouldn't even *look* at track listings, except for finding out  
>>> where in the masterworks section we should look. This is not how  
>>> things are usually done at MB, and it will be confusing to people  
>>> that are tagging their files ("how did this information on  
>>> something that looks like a chemical element isotope enter my  
>>> track title?, is this some computer virus?"),
>> I don't think we need to follow the tracklists for classical  
>> because they often leave out information.  What I would like to see  
>> (to help editors who don't know about the classical masterlists),  
>> is to put a brief explanation and a link to the composer's  
>> masterlist in their annotation.
>
> I am of course not saying we should blindly follow track lists.
>
> But I am a bit shocked after my CD ripper told me yesterday that a  
> simple one and a half minute Mozart solo piano track is called:
>
> "Modulating Prelude to Concerto for Piano in F major transitioning  
> to C
> major, K. Anh C 15.11/(K3) 626aII/I/KV deest Fr 1765a" [1]
>
> This title behooves the study room more than the living room. Do we  
> have to have to all of this in the track titles?
>
> As someone else said recently on a completely different subject: One  
> of the most important tags set by Picard is the one identifying the  
> track at MB. What if e.g. the MB track page could link to the full- 
> blown title. Can I then get a dumbed down version of the track title  
> by proposed by my ripper and subsequently on display in my living  
> room player?
>
> [1] Actually, this title proved to be wrong. The track listing says  
> "Modulierendes Präludium (F-e), KV6 deest (1776/77)", and with some  
> help from Brian I could confirm this by following the score at  
> dme.mozarteum.at.


What about a simple Picard plugin that would chop out the extra  
catalog info?  We could trim it down to "Modulating Prelude to  
Concerto for Piano in F major transitioning to C major, KV deest Fr  
1765a".  That's not a lot better, but I'm not sure why the transition  
is in there anyways (unless the score explicitly has that in the  
title.  Maybe we'd be happy with "Modulating Prelude to Concerto for  
Piano in F major, KV deest" - I'm sure we could rig up something that  
could pull this off in Picard.

-Aaron