[WikiEN-l] I believe I called this some time ago...

[geni]

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

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geni