1. on a recording, I have a "haunte-contr" singer. French word. What would be the right vocal attribute in MB ? (I'm not sure "contralto" is appropriate, since wikipedia has 2 different articles for them).
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[[mll]]
2. I'm converting http://musicbrainz.org/release/c3ecc897-2007-4658… by first adding AR to the recordings. At the moment, they're cleanly in the recording title (example : "Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (feat. London Classical Players, Schutz Choir of London, Roger Norrington)"), so does someone know some greasmonkey script or other magical stuuf th automate this chore a bit ?
2014-04-07 09721, 2014
[[mll]]
*haute-contre, sorry
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HibiscusKazeneko needs to get to sleep
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Nyanko-sensei
good night :3
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Freso
Hibiscus, in case you're reading logs: and that is exactly the point of those examples in the first place.
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Freso
[[mll]]: I think there was some discussion at one point concluding that we don't have a 1:1 attribute for haute-contra singers.
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Freso
*vocalists
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[[mll]]
ok. so that's sometinh that MB lacks ? should-I add my +1 on a ticket ?
2014-04-07 09722, 2014
Freso
Possibly.
2014-04-07 09740, 2014
Freso
I'm not sure if it ended up on a ticket or not or how to proceed with it.
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Freso doesn't follow classical stuff all that closely
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Krystof
oh hello
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Krystof
[[mll]]: what's the recording (on which you have an haute-contre)?
2014-04-07 09727, 2014
Krystof
perhaps a better question might be "who is the singer"?
2014-04-07 09719, 2014
Krystof
the best translation into english with no extra information is "counter-tenor", but in the last 10 years or so some performers have been singing haute-contre parts with (english) tenor voices
2014-04-07 09734, 2014
Krystof
it would be hard to describe Paul Agnew, for example, as a "counter-tenor", even though he's clearly an "haute-contre"
(that track on your recording is probably the same recording as one of these --http://musicbrainz.org/release/0d03dedd-5af7-4315-97ff-da9c2eb7c340 )
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Krystof
um, it's obsolete in the same way that the music itself is obsolete
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Krystof
we still have Roman roads even though the Romans are "obsolete"
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Krystof
it can't be obsolete to describe people's voices as haute-contre, because people and companies in the published record actually do do so
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[[mll]]
Actually thet talk about an anachronisme : "Bien que s'apparentant � la tessiture d'un t�nor aigu, ranger les hautes-contre dans cette cat�gorie constitue un anachronisme, tout comme qualifier de haute-contre un chanteur moderne"
2014-04-07 09755, 2014
[[mll]]
well, I guess haute-contres should be mentioned as tenor vocals
2014-04-07 09709, 2014
Krystof
why do you guess that?
2014-04-07 09727, 2014
Krystof
I think that Gerard Lesne is a falsettist (so not a tenor)
