On 4/3/06, Nathan Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you think the scope should be so broad? Remember
too that someone has to find and enter all this data
manually, which might be fine for Beethoven's fifth
(though I sure wouldn't bother finding half of that
metadata), but not so much fun or impossible for more
obscure works.
obviously the more important composers would recieve more attention.
but there are big lists of this sort of info in the grove encyclopaedia, as well as in specific composer catalogues. it could be entered fairly quickly for the 50-100 or so big composers that constitute 95% of classical CDs. the problem is that the info would involve TONS of new fields. some of them specific only to a certain period or genre. for instance gregorian chant and other early music would have parameters like which day of the year in the church or special occasion it's intended for, which wouldn't be relevant in later genres. poly-lingual motets would have 3 texts, in different languages, and have 3 lyricists if known, etc. there is a lot of info that is *really* important for listeners of a certain genre, but doesn't even make sense in other genres.
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