> Somebody in this thread mentioned that classical music has no tracks, > which I guess is the main point of confusion here. Classical music > really has no tracks, but classical releases do have tracks and do have
I was with you all the way up to here Luks. Classical release do indeed have tracks. Classical releases, however, as Frederik, myself, and Aaron have been pointing out, do not have track titles that are no different from non-classical. This is why when the concept of "track title" vs "work title" even comes up, I have to ask, what is this official classical track title that we'd be preserving until and under NGS? > track titles. But again, this is no different to non-classical music. It > has no tracks either, it has songs and releases of them again have > tracks and track titles. It's still not the same, even when you try to turn non-classical into what we've been describing as true for classical. None of the same qualifiers - non-translation as the norm, COD, artist-specified titles, etc - holds true for the non-classical. The difference here is, the "songs on tracks on releases" on a pop or jazz or rock CD each have a *singular clear and official* title. The "classical works on tracks on releases" do not have that type of title, it is most often a title descriptive of the contents; where they do, we don't apply CSG - hence Reich, Cage, etc are unaffected by CSG. Brian _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
