2012/10/4 Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>
Post by Frederic Da Vitoria2012/10/3 symphonick <symphonick at gmail.com>
Post by symphonick2012/10/3 Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>
Post by Frederic Da Vitoria2012/10/3 symphonick <symphonick at gmail.com>
Post by symphonickI had planned to do CSG works structure as my next RFC anyway, so let's
see if we can agree on something here.
Different versions of a work - when should a new work be created?
2012/10/2 Nicol?s Tamargo de Eguren <reosarevok at gmail.com>
Post by Nicolás Tamargo de EgurenPost by Frederic Da VitoriaPost by Frederic Da VitoriaI am always annoyed by this kind of edit: this is not a recording
of Clair
Post by Frederic Da Vitoriade lune but of a transcription of it. IMO this edit is currently
valid,
Post by Frederic Da Vitoriabecause there is no other way to enter it. I know we decided we
shouldn't
Post by Frederic Da Vitoriacreate a new work for each transcription, and I agree that in cases
such as
Post by Frederic Da Vitoriathis one it would be overkill and it would clutter the database
with Works
Post by Frederic Da Vitoriawith only one Recording. But wouldn't adding a "transcription"
attribute to
Post by Frederic Da Vitoriathe Recording-Work AR be a good idea?
I would say they should be separate works, and we should improve our
display of related works.
I just ran into BWV 645 which is a transcription for organ of BWV 140 so
obviously the traditional catalogs do this at least in some cases.
Personally, I'd agree with making all transcriptions separate works
(and making works include instrumentation info). Of course, that gets messy
sometimes when we don't know what a specific recording is, so we'd need
some kind of catch-all work for those... :/
"Wachet auf" is a good example. There's the original chorale by Nicolai
(1599), two versions by JS Bach, and lots of transcriptions/arrangements
that can be based on Bach's organ version or the orchestral version -
probably impossible to tell in many cases. Also the same arrangement (say
for violin & piano) can of course be performed on many different
instruments.
How should this fit together?
1) Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme by Philipp Nicolai ("earliest version"?)
2) Zion h?rt die W?chter singen by JS Bach (Tenor Choral from BWV 140)
3) Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 by JS Bach (organ
transcription of 2)
4) Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme by JS Bach (Coro from BWV 140)
A1) Wachet auf by JS Bach (possibly based on 3)
http://www.amazon.com/Canadian-Brass-More-Greatest-Hits/dp/B000003EO3
A2) Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme by JS Bach (probably an orchestral
transcription of 2)
http://www.amazon.com/Sleepers-Awake-Cantata-No-140/dp/B001BEEC76
A3) Piano arrangment by Wilhelm Kempff
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/cat/single?sort=newest_rec&COMP_ID=BACJS&PRODUCT_NR=4790314&ART_ID=KEMWI&flow_per_page=50&UNBUYABLE=1&per_page=50&presentation=flow(DG website has a title based on BWV140, a cover scan of another release
had "Organ prelude")
Thoughts?
And we could add
http://musicbrainz.org/recording/ba5543c9-30fb-4ed5-aa07-10161dc3e993 ,
although it has one foot outside the scope of classical, we'll have to
decide how to handle this type of situation too.
Yeah, it makes sense to have a separate work for this. But I wonder what
happens if more "jazz" versions exist of Wachet auf by other artists? Would
"normal" MB want to have only one work, but CSG wants one for every
arranger/artist?
Post by Frederic Da VitoriaMy first thought is that the idea of creating a Work for each
transcription has the advantage of being simple. I like simplicity. It
would probably mean removing Transcriber AR at least from Classical music.
Some users feared that it would trigger the creation of too many Works
which would be seldom used. Do we have a way to measure the current
situation? Counting the Arranger ARs to Recordings?
That's likely. We will also need a way to show arranger in the search
results, or else we must repeat the arranger in the disambiguation field.
Is this is worse than the current situation?
Sorry, I don't quite understand. What do you mean with "the current
situation"?
Post by Frederic Da VitoriaPost by symphonickHandel - Messiah in original version & Mozart's arrangement. Should there
be a super-work?
Messiah (super-work)
Post by symphonick-Messiah (original)
-Messiah (Mozart arr.)
Wouldn't creating super-works be better than current situation? Users will
be aware that there is a choice to be made only if the database offers them
a choice. If only Handel's Messiah was in the database, some users would
probably use it in place of the others.
Yeah, there's always a risk of that works get misidentified. Perhaps it's
better with a super-work that you're encouraged to use if unsure about with
version you have.
Post by Frederic Da Vitoria& what to do if I know a work is a transcription, but not who wrote it? Or
Post by symphonickwhen it could be a transcription, but it could also be the original score
with different instruments?
I think there should often (always?) be a Work for unspecified
transcriptions, if there isn't we end up with the current situation with
Myra Hess' Bach transcriptions which are probably a mess: users with a
release with a piano transcription tend to use Hess' transcription because
it is the only transcription currently in MB. This is probably often the
correct choice, but still I'd prefer if we had a "unspecified transcriptor"
transcription of those works so that users would have a choice and
hopefully use "unspecified" transcription Work when they don't have any
indication.
I thought I'd prefer to use the super-work w. transcription ARs for
everything unspecified. But how would this work when there are subparts
involved? If we have
Super-work: Bach cantata 147
*Work: Bach cantata 147
**Part of 147: Jesus bleibet meine Freude
***Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Myra Hess solo piano transcription)
An unknown piano transcription can't be connected to the cantata
super-work. Maybe every work needs a super-work:
Super-work: Bach cantata 147
*Work: Bach cantata 147
**Super-work: Part of 147: Jesus bleibet meine Freude
***Work: Part of 147: Jesus bleibet meine Freude
***Work: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Myra Hess solo piano transcription,
also connected to super-work?)
Now a recording of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with an unknown
arrangement links to the super-work with (recording) arranger [unknown]. Or
we could have a work for all unknown arrangements. Would it be a work for
every instrument? I suppose that could get messy, performers could be using
the same arrangement for different instruments, but we would split it into
several works based on a performance choice?
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