On 2/4/08, Brian Schweitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Who is the artist for variations? See for an example, track 13 of > http://musicbrainz.org/release/eb0d40c1-02d3-4816-abe9-213a979e081a.html > The work (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) is [traditional], with > non-vocal instrumental variations by Mozart, now arranged with Chinese > vocals. In the case of variations, I would suggest they're almost the > classical equivalent of a remix. I'd suggest we set the artist to the > original composer, and add a new "variation created by" AR.
Nope, no vocals on this track, that's track 22 by Johannes Brahms. On the actual subject matter, couldn't one see a variation sort of like a cover? A pop cover is attributed to the covering artist, so it's not exactly illogical to attribute classical variations to the "variator". Since this variation is catalogued as Mozart (the K. 265 think I suppose), does it make sense for MusicBrainz to do it differently? Ignoring liner notes on soundtracks of silly modern movies is one thing, but didn't someone actually think when cataloging the classical composers? I'm just pretending to know what a classical catalog is btw, ignore me if I'm being non-sensical. Philip _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
