[mb-users] Album-based classical music

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2006/10/5, Dave Smey <autodave at davesmey.com>:
>
> 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


I don't think any tagging scheme can answer all problems (though I agree
MB's way of doing things could be improved). I believe we will always need a
software to handle this, because
1 - the problem has more dimensions than can currently be handled (composer,
performer, work)
2 - most of all, our needs change during time : why not, I may one day wish
to compare works of the same composer or even of different composers written
in the same key, one day I am in a composer mood (I often do for JSB), one
other I am in a music style mood (I wish to listen to opera airs), another I
will be hunting for violin concertos from any composer, or anything this
conductor recorded...

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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