Kathy wrote:
> 3. Arrangements are either:
> a. Expressions of musical works, or
> b. New works
> [This depends on just how much "arrangement" vs.
> "creation" takes place. Examples include Liszt transcriptions
> vs. Liszt paraphrases.]
> 4. Musical performances of arrangements (that fall into the
> expression category) are "expressions of expressions" -- or
> even expressions [performance] of expressions [score] of
> expressions [arrangement]!
Moving from music to film/visual arts, I find it odd that FRBR says Baz
Lurhmann's and Franco Zeffirellis' films of Romeo and Juliet are new
works, while performances of music are expressions. It also seems to go
against the spirit of FRBR to have many works representing Romeo and
Juliet - how would these works be brought back together for the user who
is interested in performances of Romeo and Juliet?
From other comments, perhaps I am falling into the trap of thinking of
FRBR in a hierarchical way - so there is an argument to say that there
is no reason why works shouldn't have a relationship to each other, and
you could link these different film versions of R and J together in this
way, but I can't (at the moment) see why a specific performance of a
play is a new work, where a specific performance of a piece of music is
a expression (the latter makes more sense to me).
How would an Opera be represented? Is an audio recording an expression,
but a video recording a new work? Clearly this would not be sensible...
Owen
Received on Thu Dec 06 2007 - 10:33:35 EST