Talk:Traditional

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anonymous vs. traditional for composer name?

  • Posted by: Vaarky 22:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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Has there previously been discussion of whether the composer entry Traditional should be changed to Anonymous? My opinion is that Traditional denotes a category of music and is not appropriate in the composer field. The composer is either unknown (Anonymous) or someone's name. That will also not artificially divide in two the number of compositions by unknown composers just because some songs are believed to be Traditional while others are not.

Reply by: Chucktalk Giffen 13:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

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I'm very much inclined to agree with this viewpoint. Isn't a "tradtional" work "anonymous" (at least to us)? To me, "traditional" seems more of a music genre than a music source.

As an added point, why on the Traditional page are there two columns - one with sections apparently for titles from A to Z, the other with a single section "Hymn tunes" which only has a single entry (Slane)? It seems that a better use of two column format could be found.