Advanced Relationship Classes

Description

Relationship Classes are just convenient groupings for the purpose of having related relationship types close to each other. They are grouped into classes here in the documentation, and in the drop-down list from which you select the relationship type.

In the drop-down list you find the classes in the first level fo the indented type listing. You cannot apply these first level elements as relationship types. They are really just classes: containers for elements that you can choose.

List of Advanced Relationship Classes

• PerformanceRelationshipClass:

  • This denotes all artists who played on a specific performance of a work. This means that they actually produced some new audio material, e.g. who sung or played some instrument. Remixing existing audio material or engineering the audio signal is not covered by this class.

• AlternativeVersionRelationshipClass:

  • This describes relationships between related works, e.g. works that are the same, remastered from another, a cover from another, etc.

• RemixRelationshipClass:

  • This denotes al artistic activity where existing recordings are used to create (remix) something new. You can specify who remixed what material on what work. This does not refer to mix engineers in studios etc.

• CompositionRelationshipClass:

  • This denotes all artists who created some aspect of the general work, i.e. not a specific performance of it but the lyrics, the score or the arrangement.

• ProductionRelationshipClass:

  • This denotes all people and institutions that were involved in the production on the work, but did not play music: the manager, cover designer, audio mix engineer, etc. but not actual performers or remixers.

• MusicalAssociationRelationshipClass:

  • This describes who was a member of which group, who collaborated with whom etc.

• PersonalAssociationRelationshipClass:

  • This describes family relationships and liasons between artists that are in the database anyway.

• AffiliateRelationshipClass:

  • These are links to records in affiliate databases

• DiscographyRelationshipClass:

  • These are links to discographic resources

• GetMusicRelationshipClass:

  • These are links to sites where you can download and/or buy the music. Note that these must be legal, or MusicBrainz will run into trouble!

• OtherDatabasesRelationshipClass:

  • These are links to other databases about the artists, the music etc.

There's also a generated list of relationship classes on CategoryRelationshipClass.

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