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

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/7/11, snarly j. dwarf <musicbrainz at snarlydwarf.org>:
> 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.

What about Arranger ? http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/CompositionRelationshipClass

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Frederic Da Vitoria