+ 1 for *spoken word* For *instrumental* I see that we are missing something, but I don't think that the generic term is a good term to use. It is opposed to *vocal, *which subdivides in many more specific types (aria, song, opera, mass…) and like for vocal there are many sub-types of *instrumental* (concerto, symphony, sonata…). I don't know what the people familiar with jazz, electronica, or whatever genres I'm not familiar with would call a "song" without words. For non classical instrumentals I'm listening to maybe "tune" or "tune (instrumental)" would do the job…
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Andii Hughes <gnu_and...@member.fsf.org>wrote: > On 9 August 2011 16:59, jesus2099 <hta3s836gzac...@jetable.org> wrote: > > Look people, > > > > We have plenty of obscure* classical work types out here. > > But I feel we are missing some basic types. > > > > At the moment, the list of understandable work types is : > > → Song (music + melodic lyrics) > > → Song cycle (I guess it’s a song suite, like in a concept album or song > > sequence in parts**, etc.) > > > > And here is something that would be useful (we could add hierarchy too) : > > > > ☞ Instrumental (music + no lyrics) *** > > and optionals > > ☞ Spoken word (lyrics without melody + optional music) > > ☞ Poem (lyrics without melody + no music) (many songs derivate from this) > > > > Feel free to discuss this above list, I’ll then write a RFC, even if I > > absolutely have no idea how yet. > > > > * Which might be not obscure to classical experts of course. > > ** Like for instance : > > http://musicbrainz.org/work/92d39f93-d3db-4996-a127-d3b8ba12fd89 > > *** http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-2766 > > > > ----- > > jesus2099 × Ti = Tristan + patate12 ÷ saucisson7 > > mb : http://musicbrainz.org/user/jesus2099 > > mb userscripts : http://userscripts.org/users/31010/scripts > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/Add-work-types-tp3730378p3730378.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 > > Very much agree on these. 'Song' is the only one I currently use, > though I recognise what a lot of the others are; I just don't > have a use for them in most of the stuff I work on. > > Spoken word would be very useful for audiobooks I would have thought > and instrumental is going to be used pretty heavily by electronica (as > some alternative focus points to classical, which seems to have been > the main one so far). > -- > Andii :-) > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >
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