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Rock/Pop/Blues/Other: In the main this is about an individual artist or a band coming
together to perform a set of music. The artists are usually also the composers. Often the
time of the album release is identical to the recording itself. So the key attributes are “artist”,
“album”, “track”, and “released”.
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Jazz: Often the people playing together change, and besides the band leader there are
other performers who are as imported to the music and who should be noted. Also with
the attribute “sidemen” important cross-references can be uncovered by seeing who
influenced which musical style. Then many recordings go back to a certain period that is as
or more relevant than when the current CD pressing was made. As such “orig. recorded” is
an additional important attribute to the “released”. Finally in some cases an instrument is
featured which uniquely qualifies the performance, for this there is the “featured instrument”
attribute.
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Classical: In contrast to most modern music, classical music is very much about the
composer and when a work was composed. The performers are rarely identical to the
creators, though they can be an important aspect in view of the interpretation of a
pre-existing composition. And here the conductor plays an important role as do the
orchestra, chorus and soloists. People who are into classical music will associate as much
with the composer as with the performers, so all this information is very relevant:
“composer”, “composed”, “orchestra”, “conductor” and “soloist”. The OPUS
and MELODY go so far as to sort the music first by composer and then by work, choosing
to adopt the usual nomenclature of modern classical performance to the mainstream
pop industry notation. For many, for the first time on a digital music library, they can search
by composer when they are looking for their favorite work. One downside of this is that
often the metadata of composer and work are poorly maintained, and so initially there can