The whole origin/area/source issue must have been beaten to death many times before I got here... you can't really say where a 300-year old tune originated. And then some people would sink so low as to pass it off as their own work, if it's obscure enough. Or write what they believe to be an original tune, which happens to be the exact same thing. "Don't even try to understand the folk process" is the advice I always hear. I just try to attribute my sources without getting carried away.
If people continue analyzing tunes to death, yeah, we will run out of fields. I don't see why we can't say "these are the standard fields, for everything else there are comments!" Tom Novelli On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Richard Robinson wrote: > > I don't think we really are running out of field letters yet, since > > most of the lower case letters are still available. > > We could certainly get by for a while, assuming we candecide what they > should be used for. But one day we will run out, so why not be ready > instead of being caught by suprise ? And the other points; it might be > clearer and easier to read. > > Particularly, I'm getting unhappy about Jack's (??I think) mention > of A: as Author (of words). Or, more particularly, I use A: heavily as > Area, and am not comfortable, about 1) conflicting with other meanings > (it's not the first time A: == Author has been mentioned) and 2) the > issues that get raised by hierarchical data fields. In practice there's > no problem to it (that I can see) that a little commonsense can't deal > with, but it's not quite comfortable all the same. I could (maybe) > invent something like "%%A:Sweden:J\"amtland", "%%A:England:Northwest", > but these things are more useful if software understands them ... > > And then again, I tend to prefer single-character fields because it's > less typing. > > -- > Richard Robinson > "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem > > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
