Composition

Billie Jean: Split me into two?

2008-08-12T21:14:33.0017Z

Should be split into at least a music video and a song topic. Maybe a third topic just for the classic Motown 25 performance?

Composition: Date Created

2008-06-25T17:11:53.0012Z

Good suggestions. I’ve made these changes over on sandbox for comment; I’ll recreate them here if folks like them.

Composition: Date Created

2008-06-25T11:09:10.0015Z

Could we have a Date Created (type Date/Time) property?

Also a First Played (type Date/Time) property would be good. Possibly extend this to a compound type including a first played (type Location) property?

Composition: Traditional compositions

2008-05-28T03:55:57.0000Z

That’s a good question, Joe. A particular recording of a traditional tune is likely a recording of an arrangement of the tune, true. But one might still want to discuss a folk song in its own right, and there is a difference between the lack of a composer assertion and the positive assertion that the tune is traditional.

I don’t know what the right answer is. Should there be a Boolean property for traditional compositions? Should we do what every other database does and create a pseudo-composer named Traditional?

Do you want to start a discussion on the Music Modeling Interest Group or possibly the data modeling mailing list?

Composition: Traditional compositions

2008-05-26T15:41:21.0012Z

Is there a preferred way to indicate that a piece is generally credited as "traditional" (often with an arranger credit)? It's clear that imported data sometimes perpetuates "Trad" as a composer.

I suppose using "Arrangement" and leaving "Composer" blank is the best alternative?

Composition: Opus Numbers

2008-05-20T23:49:15.0000Z

Welcome!

Unfortunately—as you probably know from using MusicBrainz and other databases—classical music is not generally well-modeled. We have it on our to-do list, but just plain haven’t gotten to it yet.

You can help us out, though! First, check out and join the Music Modeling Interest Group; start a conversation or three there.

Second, you can model the features you feel are missing in your own personal domain. Then post about them on the interest group or on the data modeling mailing list, and once there’s agreement, we can easily promote them to the music domain.

Thanks!

Composition: Opus Numbers

2008-05-20T23:38:30.0005Z

Hi,

I've just discovered Freebase (through musicbrainz) and have quite a lot of classical music data which I would like to add.

What about Opus Numbers and catalogue numbers - I can't find anywhere to put them!

A table of which composers have which types of catalogue numbers would be a good entry too ( I have some data on this, too).

Wild World: Merge

2008-02-25T18:13:52.0005Z

This should be merged with the musical track/song/composition Wild World.

Depend on You: Don't merge

2008-01-09T04:59:21.0007Z

Agree, Gordon; the other one is a bunch of remixes.

Depend on You: Don't merge

2008-01-09T01:47:52.0005Z

This is a seperate release with different tracks

Jambalaya (On the Bayou): History of Song and Lyrics

2007-07-13T19:59:59.0004Z

Hank Williams Sr copied the musical melody from an earlier tune recorded in Cajun French called "Grand Texas". Although Hank Williams used the earlier Cajun melody, the words to the song that we know as "Jambalaya" was written by Hank Williams Sr. After Hank Williams Sr recorded his version with the new words, Cajuns re-recorded it with Hank Williams' words translated into Cajun French. Cajuns now consider the song to be one of our own songs. (By the way, Hank Williams mispronounced the word "Bayou". Hank pronounced it as "by-oh" when the correct pronunciation is "by-you". I guess he needed something to rhyme with "me oh my oh"...) This is located at www.cajunradio.org/wordscajun3.html Here are the words in English that Hank Williams wrote followed by the translation into Cajun French. clarence@cajunradio.org Good-bye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh Son of a gun, we’ll have big fun on the bayou (Chorus) Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file' gumbo 'Cause tonight I’m gonna see my ma cher amio Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o Son of a gun, we’ll have big fun on the bayou Thibodeaux, Fontainenot, the place is buzzin’ Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen Dress in style and go hog wild, me oh my oh Son of a gun, we’ll have big fun on the bayou (Chorus) Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file' gumbo 'Cause tonight I’m gonna see my ma cher amio Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o Son of a gun, we’ll have big fun on the bayou Settle down, far from town, get me a pirogue And I’ll catch all the fish in the bayou Swap my mon to buy Yvonne what she need-o Son of a gun, we’ll have big fun on the bayou (Chorus) Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file' gumbo 'Cause tonight I’m gonna see my ma cher amio Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o Son of a gun, we’ll have big fun on the bayou A CAJUN FRENCH VERSION: "GOODBY JOE" J'AI POUR ALLEZ, MI-O-MA-Y-O J'AI POUR ALLEZ MOI TOUT SEUL SUR LE BAYOU MA YVONNE, LA PLUS JOLIE SUR LE BAYOU TONNERRE M'ECRASE UN VA AVOIR UN BON TEMP SUR LE BAYOU ----refrain---------- JAMBALAYA, DES TARTES D'ECREUVISSE, FILE GOMBO PAR A SOIR MOI J'VA ALLEZ VOIR MA CHERE AMI-O JOUER L'GUITAR, BOIRE DE LA JOGUE(cruche) ET FAIR DE LA MUSIQUE TOMNNERRE M'ECRASE UN VA AVOIR UN BON TEMP DE SUR LE BAYOU THIBODEAUX, FONTENOT, LA PLACE APRE SONNER CA VIEN "EN TAS" POUR VOIR YVONNE PAR LES DOUZAINES FAIR BIEN L'AMOUR, ET FAIR LE FOU, FAIR LA MUSIQUE TONNERRE M'ECRASE UN VA AVOIR UN BON TEMP