[mb-users] Convert CDDB discID to Musicbrainz discID

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/11/29, Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com>:
>
>
> > > catcorner cases, and it assumes you kind of know what good CSG / Opera
> >
> > > titles ought to look like, but this tool can help make actually
> > forming
> > > normal CSG / Opera titles easier:
> > > http://www.brianfreud.byethost13.com/CSGOperaThing.html
> > >
> >
> > Nice! Why are there 2 Work# input boxes? When is the first one
> > recommended?
> > And a question from a French user: in the CSG there are several
> > "Concerto
> > for piano" but one "violin concerto". Is Concerto for violin ok?
> >
>
> On the latter first, I've had discussions a few times with some of the
> classical editors on it.  Some seem to prefer the "Violin concerto"
> formulation, but I'm not one who does - it leads to a situation where we
> sometimes have one form, sometimes the other ("Concerto for Orchestra"
> immediately comes to mind).  It's also not the format we use for other
> forms, such as symphony, etc - my personal preference at least then is to
> always use the CSG track title style, rather than inverting "form" and
> "instrumentation" for some types of work.
>
> On the former question, you could have different work numberings,
> depending on the composer and the catalogue.  Some catalogues just counted
> all concertos without regard to instrumentation.  So you have
>
> Concerto No. 1 for Piano...
> Concerto No. 2 for Piano...
> Concerto No. 3 for Violin...
> Concerto No. 4 for Oboe...
> Concerto No. 5 for Oboe...
>
> Other catalogues for other composers count each by instrument type, thus:
>
> Concerto for Piano No. 1 ...
> Concerto for Piano No. 2 ...
>
> Concerto for Violin No. 1 ...
>
> Concerto for Oboe No. 1...
> Concerto for Oboe No. 2...
>
> So that tool tries to allow you to do either form.  :)
>

But shouldn't the numbering follow the same logic as the instrument: always
follow CSG? Funny, I did not expect my two questions to converge!

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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