Category talk:Voicing

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Revision as of 02:40, 16 March 2006 by Pml (talk | contribs) (Changed my mind - sort by no. of vv first, then single/double/triple choir)
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The voicing category should only contain links to categories which actually contain scores; we don't want to have listings for voicing categories that don't have any scores in them, which will only make the page longer and more complicated.

I also am changing the sorting rules so that these are a little more logical - S, A, T, B are not sorted alphabetically, and so the sorting under each number of voices is haphazard. Here's a first attempt to re-order the category:

I'll start with 10 or more voices: first part of the schema, increasing number of voices: 10vv, then 11vv, then 12vv... thus we're still increasing voices one by one from 10 upwards, but now sorted only under the one entry: ~ [[Category:Voicing|~10...
[[Category:Voicing|~11...
[[Category:Voicing|~12...

Second part of the schema: list all of the categories with single choir, then double, triple, finally four or more:
[[Category:Voicing|~12,1choir...
[[Category:Voicing|~12,2choirs...
[[Category:Voicing|~12,3choirs...
[[Category:Voicing|~40,4+choirs]]

Third part of the schema: alphabetically an AATB choir would come before a normal SATB choir, I think most people will want the list ordered from high voices down to low voices. So I'm going to use numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 in place of S, A, T, B. So SATB, or 1234, will then sort before AATB, or 2234. Unison or equal voices sort as 0.

So the first entry in the 10 or more voices will be 10 equal voices:
[[Category:Voicing|~10,1choir,0000000000]]
probably followed next by SSSAATTTBB:
[[Category:Voicing|~10,1choir,1112233344]]

--Pml 17:59:39, 2006-03-15 (PST)