![]() ![]() Whilst I admire your method of cataloging, and admit doing so on a historical basis means that if you are in the mood for some, say, Medieval music you would go to those records filed under the 12th and 13th century or if Mozart you would look under 18th century, it wouldn't work for me!Ī friend at University tried to do something similar with his record collection putting 'similar' music next to one another. I would file Bach (and his sons) before Handel, simply because "B" comes before "H" (and in connection to the above: Handel would come before Hildegard of Bingen). ![]() I like the idea that if the exact birth year is unknown, musicologists will often use the term "fl." meaning 'he/ she flourished', denoting a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. Haha - some of those names I cited were taken from a boxed set of Medieval music directed by the late David Munrow. I also found when I was young that doing this sorting helped me put the music into its historical context and appreciate it all the more. (I've only got a couple of albums of that btw, I was introduced to it through David Munrow's excellent album "Music of the Gothic Era".)īach and Handel caused an issue both being born in 1685 but as Handel lived longer, and I find his later music adapted more with European musical development over the period then Bach, then I found it an easy decision to put Bach first. ![]() That way if I fancy some music from the Notre Dame school for example I can go straight to that section and pick what I want. All the CDs have their years of birth and death on the back (if known) so it's not that difficult, but country of origin will usually override exact year if they were born again within a few years of one another. ![]()
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