Re: [ARSCLIST] Cataloging sound recordings

[Matt Snyder <msnyder@xxxxxxxx>]

Karl Miller <lyaa071@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Fri, 6 May 2005 09:24:18
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>On Fri, 6 May 2005, Matt Snyder wrote:

>> Also, as Steven Barr noted, the IJS listing is really a catalog, not a
>> discography. In jazz, discographies center on the recording session,
not
>> the sound container.

>Or any of information in the record...for instance, a discography of
Kenny
>Dorham...

But that is still session-based. All the recordings of Kenny Dorham, with
each entry in the discography being a particular recording session on a
particular date. Or all the recordings Kenny Dorham made on Blue Note,
with each entry being a particular session on a particular date. Or all
the recordings Kenny Dorham made with Dexter Gordon. In any of these
cases, the unit being described by the discography is a recording session,
not a sound container, although the discography does describe how the
contents of the recording session were issued to the public. This is what
I mean by session-based.

>Should an online catalog be better at providing a bibliography versus
>providing a discography?

Good question, but I have a lot less experience with bibliographies, so
I'm not one to attempt an answer.

Matt Snyder
Music Archivist
Wilson Processing Project
The New York Public Library