medley Style

Style for Medleys

This style guide applies to tracks that are labeled as medleys or that have a track name and many songs.

The general style should be "TrackTitle: SongTitle 1 / SongTitle 2 / ..."

If the TrackTitle ends in "medley" it should be changed to "(medley)" unless the TrackTitle is "medley" in which case it shouldn't be changed.

Song numbers or letters should not be included.

Example

1. Foo

1. Bar
2. Baz
3. Quux

1. Foo Medley

1. Bar
2. Baz
3. Quux

1. Medley

1. Bar
2. Baz
3. Quux

These tracks should be listed as "Foo: Bar / Baz / Quux", "Foo (medley): Bar / Baz / Quux", and "Medley: Bar / Baz / Quux" respecitvely.

Discussion

I don't think SongTitles should have numbers or letters because different releases might use different schemes (e.g. "a. ", "A. ", "I. " "* ", etc.). --dseomn

I think "1 / 2 / ..." is better than "1, 2, ..., and N" because different languages use different commas (e.g. Hebrew uses a backwards comma) and it might be hard to figure out what language to write "and" in if the track uses different languages. Also, even if the track only uses one language, the moderator may not know the word for and. --dseomn

I asked some related questions on PartNumberStyle. See also how g0llum handled this on the albums of Douglas Adams (for example the first 3 albums) and how it is done on Ayreon's The Final Experiment. What about part titles that are not mentioned on the cover but in the lyrics inside the booklet? When are they to be taken into the title?

I tried to analyze this a little bit and show why there are connections to PartNumberStyle: There are different cases:

1. One sond which has several parts which are spread over several tracks (-> PartNumberStyle)
2. Several songs which are combined in one track (-> MedleyStyle)
3. One song which consists of several parts / sections but which are all combined in one track (-> ...?)

It is not always clear how to separate between 2. and 3. Often you also have mix forms like: one song/works which has several parts, some of them spread over tracks, some of them combined in one track. --Shepard

History

First(?) raised in this thread on the MailingList. --paul

Page moved from TrackSections to MedleyStyleProposal and content added by dseomn.