History:Transcription Relationship Type Proposal

Status: This page describes an active proposal and is not official.

Proposal number: RFC-Unassigned Champion: lorenz p. Current status: pre-rfc Initial Discussion

Description

This indicates that a work that was intented to be played by certain instrument was re-written (transcribed) to be performed by another instrument.

Link Phrases

• Work is a transcription {{for instrument}} of: Work
• Work transcribed versions {{for instrument}}: Work

Attributes

• start date

There is no guideline yet for how the begin date fields might be used.

• end date

There is no guideline yet for how the end date fields might be used.

• instrument

This special version of this relationship type indicates for what kind of instrument the work was transcribed to.

Guidelines

This relationship should only be used when the score of a composition has be re-written to be played by another instrument then it was intended by the original composer. This relationship covers also reductions. The person who did the transcription should be credited via the "instrumentation" relationship. For minor modifications in a work or improvised variations by an artist please use the "arranged" relationship on recording level.