Alexander Dupuy wrote: > The logic of the "classical manner" as you call it, but more accurately > would be "composer preference" for soundtracks was and is to avoid VA > albums where possible. >
this isn't a various artist album it's a Greg Edmonson album with a track by Sonny Rhodes with recent changes to MB, there is no need to worry about VA albums like this as the entire album can have an AlbumArtist (In this case Greg Edmonson) and tracks that are not by him (Firefly - Main Title) or written/performed by someone else can be credit properly *and with those changes to MB, appropriate changes need to be made to http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SoundtrackStyle (starting with ditching the word "pre-existing")* > For many soundtracks, the "score," which includes instrumental > background, as well as songs in the case of musicals, are all composed > by one artist, while the performers may well be different on every > track. Having the composer as the primary artist is preferable to > having many different performers (or bogus things like "Cast of Cats" or > unwieldy 'collaborations' that are just songs with multiple performers). > ok. we know that not every soundtrack follows that case obviously. :) This track in question doesn't fall into that equation. > There is another type of soundtrack, especially for movies, where the > music is simply selected from existing pop releases (sometimes pop music > that has not yet been released, but which, typically, *is* released > separately). In those cases, the composer is often totally unrelated to > the soundtrack, and is not listed as the primary artist on other > releases containing the song. For such tracks, the composer preference > makes no sense, and it's more sensible to have a VA release with the > performer as the primary artist on those tracks, and the composer is the > primary artist only on the tracks that are part of the score. yay. exactly where this Firefly track lands. > In your particular case, since Joss Whedon is the composer of the track > in question, it makes more sense to consider it part of the score, and > to leave Joss Whedon as the primary artist. It is entirely appropriate > to add AR relationships to the tracks that clarify that Joss Whedon is > the composer, and Sonny Rhodes is the vocalist, however. > > @alex i have read your appended reply to this email. with that said.. the track (which isn't part of the score) is written/composed by Joss Whedon (he strummed a guitar and sang a melody, it's not like he was writing some massive musical score), arranged by Greg Edmonson, and performed by Sonny Rhodes the rest of the album (the score) by Greg Edmonson your last statement here in _this email_ contradicts what you wrote regarding "another type of soundtrack" -Brian _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
