[mb-users] Album-based classical music

[Dave Smey]

On Thu, October 5, 2006 8:43 am, Andrew Conkling said:
> while it took a bit more time tagging things on
> my own, at least they were indexed logically.

Now you've got me hooked, too - I wouldn't mind hearing about your own
tagging plan.

MB has caused me to invision a wikialized database that is just about
classical pieces, a "work list" for each composer.  Academics would like
this very much.  Then the piece information could be hooked to
discography, information on the printed editions (from the original ones
to current ones) , bibliography, personal notes...

I am actually playing around with developing such a thing at home (just as
a personal database, not a wiki).  The implementation is crap but if I
come up with a good schema I'll show that.

In the NGS, the concept of "grouping" seems promising, but one challenge
with classical is that you've got to map a heirarchy to a heirarchy.  (The
piece and its movements to a track grouping and its tracks.)  If a release
contains a single movement you should be able to specify that it is this
bit of this bigger thing.  AND, further mucking it up is that recordings
will break up the same piece into different track break-downs.

-DS