2013/2/28 Lemire, Sebastien <m...@benji99.ca>

> How about just leaving out Opera, and perhaps ballet out of this proposal
> and we could have an RFC just for them without interrupting the other works
> like?
> On Feb 27, 2013 4:39 PM, "David Hilton" <quercus.aeter...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:29 PM, symphonick <symphon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 2013/2/27 David Gasaway <d...@gasaway.org>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:44 PM, symphonick <symphon...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, that was my thought too. But the idea with excerpt works was to
>>>>> use it for recitals. A "real" opera recording should then only be linked 
>>>>> to
>>>>> the "original" works. But now I wonder how this will work in practice? And
>>>>> what about compilations? I'm open for suggestions on how to rewrite that
>>>>> part...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what "original works" means in this context.  If you mean
>>>> that opera releases will have only partial-recording-of-act ARs even when
>>>> excerpt works are available, that does indeed pose problems when
>>>> compilation releases share recordings with full-opera releases.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, that was what I meant. I don't know what's worse, that you can't
>>> use excerpt works or that you should be forced to use them. Or should we
>>> just say nothing about it, opera will be a complete mess anyway? :-(
>>>
>>
>> Subdividing opera is a big problem.  Even when numbers are split, the
>> name of the number is just some part of the first line.  At worst, you only
>> have demarcation between acts.  The only real solution would be to cluster
>> some recordings and saying 'these combined recordings comprise a
>> performance of this work'.
>>
>
I agree, I think this RFC should state that Operas and ballets are outside
of it's scope so that this at least can be settled.

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