Muziek/componist/tekstschrijver

Edit: Componist/tekstschrijver

Kunnen we deze twee velden niet beter samenvoegen, omdat het in (wellicht) 95% van de platen niet duidelijk is - niet omschreven is - wie wat gedaan heeft.

Edit: Composer/lyricist

Wouldn't it be better to merge these two fields, because in (perhaps) 95% of the records it is not clear - not described - who did what.

Good point.

Indeed, there is usually no split in the track list with the records, but I don't think it's a good point.

Many records are written by a different artist than the performer. For example, with the Dutch songs, Set Gaaikema, Martine Bijl, Johnny Hoes and Annie M.G. Schmidt wrote a lot, but by no means always sang / performed. If you put them together, you get a strange representation of the tracks.

As for the composers, it is quite clear that classical music usually has a composer and no lyricist. This then creates confusion when merging. Furthermore, I would rather have an extra Conductor field, now I still have to add it to (guest) artists.

And if you really want to enter it properly, there is always a good catalog on the internet where it is stated in who wrote what and who composed what.

@DisneyMeentwijc

Many records are written by a different artist than the performer. For example, with the Dutch songs, Set Gaaikema, Martine Bijl, Johnny Hoes and Annie M.G. Schmidt wrote a lot, but by no means always sang / performed. When you put them together, you get a strange representation of the tracks.

It's about merging the composer and the lyricist. I don't talk about merging with the performing artist.

And if you really want to enter it properly, there is always a good catalog on the internet that states who wrote what and who composed what .

Not even the Beatles and the Stones know that. But who knows, you might be able to find that site.

Composer / lyricist may well become one field, but in three years they want it split again. And merged again two years later? These are not things that you should take a different view on every so often. Merging is very simple, not splitting again. That is why I always take a very critical attitude when merging information.

edit: I first understood that it was about the performer and copywriter. Sorry, Jilles.

It's about merging the composer and the lyricist

Arco has a good point, prefer to keep it split, if you don't know it well, then as often happens you just put both names in both fields ... and if you do know correctly, you correct that ...

Harry Bannink composed countless melodies to texts by Annie M.G. Schmidt and just about everyone who, from the early 1960s to the 1980s, meant something in Dutch cabaret theater and on TV (including Martine Bijl). He did not write any lyrics himself.

I do agree with Morits's suggestion. That way, no one will be bothered by it, until someone does. He can then change it in the right way and then the Catalog becomes even more correct.

The example of Boekenmagazijn shows very clearly how the separation between composer / lyricist should be ideal. With those 3 you can clearly make the division, but with the Beatles for example it is indeed impossible. Indeed, you better put Lennon / McCartney at both fields until someone knows better