On 09/11/2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:02:59 +0000, "David Gerard" dgerard@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.