Re: [mb-style] Add work types

2011-08-15 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
I think that no matter how controversial work types can be, they are essential for filtering works in prolific composers as mentioned above. I think that a single attribute (as of now) would cover without too much controversy 90%+ of the classical work types and if we structure it in a tag

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part II: Subtitles instrumentation

2011-08-15 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
- or we add a field to enter separately the instrumentation and we make instrumentation optionally visible, but to do this, we'd have to split the title in several parts: work type/instrumentation/remainder or even maybe work type/instrumentation/work number/catalog number/key signature. In

Re: [mb-style] Add work types

2011-08-15 Thread Pete Marsh
I think that no matter how controversial work types can be, they are essential for filtering works in prolific composers as mentioned above. could you not just use filtering on the title field to sort? symphonies, nocturnes, sonatas, concertos etc are titled as such which is why i'm not sure work

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Group all “tape” medium formats

2011-08-15 Thread Alex Mauer
On 08/13/2011 04:42 PM, Nikki wrote: Why would the formats which use magnetic tape be better off grouped together? It seems even more arbitrary to me than making an optical disc type to group all optical discs. So that there’s one place to look for all magtape formats, instead of the current

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part II: Subtitles instrumentation

2011-08-15 Thread Paul C. Bryan
Have you seen this? http://www.brianfreud.byethost13.com/CSGOperaThing.html Paul On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 09:56 -0400, Lemire, Sebastien wrote: - or we add a field to enter separately the instrumentation and we make instrumentation optionally visible, but to do this,

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part II: Subtitles instrumentation

2011-08-15 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
Wow, no I did not, very useful. Is there a reason why you can enter the Work # twice? Is it to deal with sub works of a larger work? On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: ** Have you seen this? http://www.brianfreud.byethost13.com/CSGOperaThing.html Paul

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part II: Subtitles instrumentation

2011-08-15 Thread Paul C. Bryan
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 16:25 -0400, Lemire, Sebastien wrote: Wow, no I did not, very useful. Is there a reason why you can enter the Work # twice? Is it to deal with sub works of a larger work? I believe it was specifically meant to deal with the ambiguity around instrumentation and

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC CSG Release title Featured Artists

2011-08-15 Thread Ryan Torchia
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