[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> facilities to the site.
>
> > 3. The descriptor "classical" means different things to different people.
> > Your two examples are probably both classical and Classical. I'm doubt that
> > this will really cause much confusion to the target market, but maybe a
> > date (either of composition or composer's birth) could reduce ambiguity.
>
> I've thought quite hard about this and have decided to keep the "Music style"
> section in (Rennaisance/Classical etc.) as going simply by date could also be
> confusing - especially the music of the early 20th Century, eg. Joplin and
> Szymanowski were writing at about the same time, and their styles could not be
> more different! (Szymanowski hasn't gone out of copyright yet, though).
Again, this is something that should be in the \header fields of the
files submitted. In fact, any kind of database field can be added to
the header field, just by doing
\header {
"key" = "value";
};
> > For example, do you want to store Opus and Number fields,
>
> Good point. I'll make it sortable by Opus (where appropriate) as well.
>
> > have consistent spellings of Tchaikowsky and Chaikovsky, etc.
>
> I hadn't thought of this. We'd have to standardize on the modern accepted
> spellings (is there such a thing?) and have a special page that comes up if
> someone searches using one of the other spellings.
Perhaps we can have multiple spellings. One standard form for the
mutopia archive, and one (preferrably the original cyrillic) spelling
for the printout.
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