[mb-users] Who to credit for Composer on transcriptions...

[snarly j. dwarf]

Here is a fun one:
   http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005RYE1/

This is a collection of transcriptions by Vladamir Horowitz, performed
by Valery Kuleshov.  Original composers are everyone from Sousa to Liszt
to Mussorgsky....

It seems odd to credit Stars and Stripes forever to Horowitz, but,
then, it is a major transcription change -- Sousa never wrote a piano
version.  And Liszt himself transcribed tons of things and gets credit
for the transcription (I think)...

But it likewise seems wrong to leave out Sousa/Liszt/etc but the track
names would get ugly if I amazonized it all to be "(after Liszt)" or
"Piano transcription of Sousa's".  

What is the preferred way to handle this sort of thing?

(I grabbed this one from Emusic, but, gah, their tags are horrid and
just run all the contributors together...  And leave out Kuleshov
completely... see
http://www.emusic.com/album/Various-Artists-HOROWITZ-Virtuoso-Transcriptions-for-Piano-MP3-Download/10888147.html
for their treatment, which is painful.)

Adding ARs doesnt seem to be quite correct either.  About the closest
I see is {additionally} composed, but it should be more like
{originally} than {additionally}... 

And yeah, this affects a lot of classical stuff where Liszt transcribed
hundreds of pieces....  So there should be some standard way of noting
it, but damned if I can figure it out.


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