Re: [mb-users] tracklist of a single piece release, part numbers

2014/1/24 e-o <[email protected]>

> Dear musicbrainz users,
>
> I have some trouble interpreting the style guidelines.
>
> It's about this CD
> http://pool-musik.com/schiller/product_info.php?products_id=98
> and this edit https://musicbrainz.org/edit/25987945.
>
> As I see it, the CD contains a single piece of music called "Die
> Einlassmusik 7" which has several parts (1-8).
>
> However, on the back of the official CD cover only the part numbers are
> written ("Teil" is the German word for "part").
> I.e. the tracklist printed there reads:
>
> Part I
> Part II
> Part III
> ...
> Part VIII
>
> just as on the webpage.
>
> It is unclear to me if the tracklist of a release in musicbrainz should
> contain the titles as printed on the back of the CD case or if it should
> read the title of the piece of music on the CD.
>
> To be more specific, should the tracklist read
> ***
> Teil I
> Teil II
> ...
> Teil VIII
> ***
> or should it read
> ***
> Die Einlassmusik 7, Teil I
> ...
> Die Einlassmusik 7, Teil VIII
> ***
> ?
>
> The style guidelines says
> "Note that if the title of a track is just “Part 1” or similar then this
> guideline should not apply, because then “Part 1” is considered being
> the Main Title of the track and not the Part Number."
> (http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Titles/Part_numbers)
> However, in this case "Teil I" doesn't seem to be the main title of the
> piece. In my opinion the main title is "Die Einlassmusik 7" and just got
> skipped on the tracklist printed on the CD for design reasons and
> because it is redundant.
>
> In classical music having a piece filling a whole CD is more common so
> it seems appropriate to me to proceed as in one of the examples from the
> classical style guidelines:
>
> https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Classical/Release/Title
> example: Symphony no. 14, op. 135
> (http://musicbrainz.org/release/08777f96-ce99-467d-a00f-6dc99a17cfca)
>
> Do I misinterpret the rules?
> I would be very thankful for opinions on this.
>

I agree the documentation could be read at least ways. I wish there it
included an example about how to handle titles such as the one you found.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

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