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

[Aaron Cooper]

On 5-Mar-08, at 4:35 PM, David K. Gasaway wrote:

> Brian Schweitzer wrote:
>
>> Thus, actually, why I'd opposed the implementation of the parody AR  
>> as
>> an attribute to the cover AR.  The cover AR is distinctly a "song
>> instance"-"work listing" AR, linking from one artist's recording back
>> to another artist's work listing.
>
> I didn't get a clear picture of how you would enter a cover.  Would  
> the covering artist have an entry in the works list for the cover  
> will an AR to the composition?  If not, I don't think it's fair to  
> say that a cover is necessarily a cover of a composition.  It could  
> be a cover of a specific performance (i.e., specific variation in  
> lyrics, instrumentation, rhythm, or whatever else you could imagine).

The picture I see is both artists having a work in their worklists  
with one linked to the other with a Cover AR.  The original  
composition will also have Composition/Lyrics/Arranged/etc ARs but not  
the cover version.

-Aaron