Aaron: Lots of thoughtful work on this proposal. Thank you.
Aaron Cooper-3 wrote: > > Please take a look at > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalReleaseArtistsStyleProposal > Please share your thoughts and concerns. > * I think "How to determine" step 5 should be split into two steps, to make it clearer: 5. If all tracks were composed by the the same composer, the composer is the Release Artist. 6. Otherwise, set the Release Artist to Various Artists. * Rule 2 says "a small number of artists". That isn't quite precise enough to make me comfortable. Is 4 a small number? 10? * Change "varying" to "various", or maybe "differing", throughout. I had a crusty mentor who drummed into my head that "varying" means "changing over time". What you mean here is "different in different cases within the set". * For all the examples, it's great to have a link to concrete examples. But the page would be easier to understand if the reader could understand the point of the example without having to follow the link. Consider adding a summary of each release to the text of the example, highlighting which trait the example demonstrates. For instance, the first example could be " http://musicbrainz.org/release/a4995df2-4020-4a80-9fab-cd95a92764f6.html Example 1 : 'The Gould Variations (Glenn Gould)'. 21 works, all J.S. Bach compositions, all performed only by Glenn Gould. ReleaseArtist is Gould." * At the end of each example, I think "ReleaseArtist is foo" is a clearer way to make your point than just "(ReleaseArtist)". In particular, I'm not sure exactly what ReleaseArtist setting you propose for the performer collaboration cases. * In the performer collaboration case, in what order should we list the names? There are six different permutations of "Anna-Sophie Mutter, Maurice Zelster, & Yo-Yo Ma". (This is part of why such CollaborationArtist``s make me uncomfortable. * Two of your examples seem to have FeaturedArtistStyle: "(Ed Meyer)" and "(feat. piano: Glenn Gould)". I'd prefer it if the examples didn't have this style, since I have a feeling we will shortly agree to drop it from the CSG. If we do drop it, we'd have to come back and eliminate it from here too, and that would be an extra task. Consider dropping the parenthetical clauses from how you cite those ReleaseTitles in this page. Again, thanks for the thoughtful work. I'm not quite on board yet, but a clear proposal like this is a big help. ----- -- http://jdlh.com/ Jim DeLaHunt , Vancouver, Canada • http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/JimDeLaHunt -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Setting-Classical-Release-Artists-to-Performers-tp15244413s2885p15342220.html Sent from the Musicbrainz - Style mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
