[mb-users] Album-based classical music

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

The ClassicalStyleGuide does help a little by saying that each track should
be prefixed with the name of the work. This solves your Mahler symphony
problem. At least, you won't have all Beethoven's Allegros stacked together!
But if you have several interpretations of the same opus, you won't be
happy.

The current structure of MB's database doesn't allow to sort classical music
properly. NextGenerationSchema (which I believe needs to be amended a little
more for classical) should address most of your problems. But NGS is
unfortunately not due soon.

2006/10/5, Edward Barrow <edward at copyweb.co.uk>:
>
> Well I don't know about Andrew, but I listen by piece or work, such as a
> concerto or symphony, that is, an ordered sequence of usually 3, 4 or 5
> tracks (each movement is typically recorded as a track).
>
> An album often has 2 or 3 such works; a symphony for example may be
> filled out with some liede (songs) to fill up the space.
>
> This is the other reason that album/artist/track doesn't work in
> classical; the first being the fact that artist needs to be split into
> (at least) composer and performer.
>
> Ben wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, if you don't listen to your classical music by album
> > or by track, how do you listen to it?
> >
> > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> >
> >> Hello list,
> >> I've just started using MusicBrainz and I'm pretty enthused about the
> >> venture.  However, the MusicBrainz style in general is very
> >> album-based.  I rarely listen to my classical by album.  For example,
> >> finding Mahler's Symphony no. 6 on "The Symphonies [Discs 1 through
> >> 10]" is rather difficult.  However, I also don't listen to my
> >> classical by track, so browsing through the 40-odd tracks is equally
> >> tedious.
> >>
> >> I'm not suggesting the entire Musicbrainz style be changed, but can
> >> anyone recommend ways of using the style to organize music by piece,
> >> the most logical way?
> >>
> >> Thanks so much,
> >> Andrew Conkling
>
> --
> Edward Barrow
> Copyright Consultant
> edward at copyweb.co.uk
>



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Frederic Da Vitoria
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