[mb-style] RFC: Works lists (and other related changes then implied)

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Leiv Hellebo <leiv.hellebo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Leiv Hellebo <leiv.hellebo at gmail.com
> > <mailto:leiv.hellebo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Aaron Cooper wrote:
> >     On the topic of languages, I think we should try to pick one
> >      > language per composer  (as we've done with the wiki works lists)
> >
> >     One language per work in Works lists sounds good. If the composer
> e.g.
> >     lived abroad and used another language during that period, it's to
> be
> >     expected that different languages might be best.
> >
> >
> > So Tchaikovsky in Cyrillic only? This is quite annoying. I love this
> > composer,
>
> hehe, I was listening to Viktoria Mullova playing his violin concerto as
> this mail entered my inbox :)
>
>  but I don't intend to learn Cyrillic soon...
> >
>
> Sorry for the hasty formulation "one language per work sounds good", I
> don't have the solution to this problem. But my first thought is that
> Works ideally should be entered also in cyrillic. It might not be very
> practical, though.
>
> For tagging you should get most of what you need from the track listing
> of your release. But we have a problem if strange characters in the
> Works make them difficult for editors to reliably find and use.
>
> Perhaps the opus numbers and other catalogue information can help?
>

Yes, they could, provided the composer has a catalogue. Else, we will have
to set up some translation system soon. I agree the original language makes
the most sense, though. But sometimes, the most logical choice is not the
most user-friendly!

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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