On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:02:59 +0000, "David
Gerard"
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'd disagree, actually. Having this stuff
documented is *gold* to the
researcher. It would go in a specialist encyclopedia of the subject,
it should go in Wikipedia.
I have just been reading an academic work on musicology that says
anything past about 1900 becomes a nightmare for the musicologist
because, outside of the masters, the volume of documentation is
simply too big to allow any meaningful process of critical
categorisation.
I think the view on the thousands of sold-a-dozen CDs will be the
same: of no practical use or interest, does not make the cut in any
rational analysis of the subject.
Guy (JzG)
If computer searches continue to improve I doubt that will be much of a problem.
--
geni