Brian Schweitzer wrote: > Side question: When you say correcting typos, are you referring to > ArtistIntent of the composer or of the performers? (I'd hope you mean > the former; determining AI can be hard enough without also potentially > assuming some group of classical performers decided to rename a work > with a misspelling for *any* reason).
I guess I was thinking of the former (but read on): I recently pointed out a typo for a Shostakovich track (originally in Russian, the Naxos cover had English), to which the editor at first replied that the cover did use the typo. (Indeed, classical.com and other places getting data from the same source had the same typo.) But typos are hard: F. Couperin did not write modern French, so for really old titles it might be impossible to know both what the artist wanted, and what was considered correct at that time. It is quite probable that no performers mean to introduce typos in titles, but perhaps some performers consider it acceptable to e.g. leave out the "cantabile" in a title where the original score had it in, because it was not played very cantabile? Leiv _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
