Rob Styles wrote:
> A picture is worth a thousand words...
mmmm, but this one might need two thousand to express it ;-)
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> As I see it a performance is a manifestation of an arrangement which
> is an expression.
Aha! It took me a while to get this, because I'm so used to dealing with
fixations. But you mean that the performance itself is a manifestation.
In that sense, it does make sense that it can be a manifestation. Then
the recording you have as as manifestation of the work. I *might* code
it as a manifestation of the performance. In any case, to me this shows
me that our relationships are actually more complex that the WEMI
hierarchy, and I suspect that even the FRBR creators might agree. It's
not a strait W-<E-<M-<I chain, but one that can have iterations, so you
can have (if I can do this -- never was able to do that ASCII art)
W <- E <- M
E <- M <-E <-M
OK, that's not it, but in essence if we give up trying to fill in the
WEMI for every thing and focus on relationships between works, we will
find that WEMI expresses relationships but is not a strict hierarchy.
And I think your diagram shows that, but I need to study it some more.
kc
p.s. ok, admit it -- you've got some nifty software for doing those
diagrams, right? If you are doing them in MS PPT I'll hate myself for my
ineptness in that medium.
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> I've tried to diagram that, not using any formal terms, just to get a
> rough idea.
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> rob
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> On 5 Dec 2007, at 22:36, Karen Coyle wrote:
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>> But if "A is a performance of Z" means that Z is a work, doesn't "F
>> is a
>> performance of C" mean that C could also be a work? As some of our
>> music-enabled colleagues replied, by some definitions, an
>> arrangement is
>> a separate work. Could C be simultaneously an expression and a work?
>
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