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Musical Artist Documentation
A Musical Artist can describe either an individual musician or a band of musicians. Ideally, a Musical Artist will have released a Musical Album.
Right now, anyone who contributed in any way to an album or song is typed as a Musical Artist;
this includes composers, writers of liner notes, and graphic designers.
Obviously, this isn’t ideal, but it’s a quirk in our main source of
music data; please help us clean this up!
The definition for Musical Artist
is ideal for popular recording artists. The right model for classical
composers and performers is different; please join the discussions here
or prototype them in your own default domain and help us figure this
out.
Properties
- Musical Genres: expects Musical genre; genres with which this artist is primarily associated. This is subjective to a large degree, so please don’t delete the genres that others have listed. Discuss the artist instead.
- Origin of Musical Career: expects Location; where the band formed or where the soloist began his career.
- Albums: expects Musical Album; the albums recorded by and credited to this artist.
- Similar Artists: expects Musical Artist; artists whose style is similar to this one’s. As with genre, this is subjective, so please don’t delete others’ listings.
- Record Labels: expects Record label; labels for which this artist has recorded.
- Active as Musical Artist (start): expects Date/Time; the beginning of the artist’s recording career.
- Active as Musical Artist (end): expects Date/Time; the end of the recording career, if known.
- Musical Artist Home Page: expects Webpage; the official home page or pages for this artist; this should not be fan pages, lyrics sites, or other related sites, but a site created by the artist, their agency, or their label for official communication.
- Web Page for Music: expects Webpage; sites where one can download or buy recordings by this artist.
- Album Contributions: expects Musical Contribution; this compound value type notes contributions of an artist to an album which isn’t primarily credited to them, such as backup vocals or guest instrumentalists.
- Songs: expects Musical Track; tracks recorded by and credited to this artist; generally, tracks on albums that are entirely by this artist will not be listed here, only tracks on “various artists” albums.
Hidden Property
- Similar Musical Artists: expects Musical Artist; this is just the other side of the Similar Artists property, and is interesting, but is confusing to display.
Recent Discussions about Musical Artist Documentation
Musical artists: types vs professions
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