Talk:Catalogues of classical compositions

Bibliographic information
It's my intention to start expanding each item on the list with full bibliographic information. -- kosboot (talk) 16:49, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Working with the table is going to be tricky, so I'm going to add the detail here before incorporating it into the main article.

Still needing bibliographic citations

 * Meyer (Ferrabosco)
 * Harper (Gibbons) - check Musica Brittanica v. 48
 * Gillespie (Krommer)
 * Mueller (Liszt)
 * Pestelli (Scarlatti)
 * Marvin (Soler)
 * Leonhardt (Sweelinck)
 * Falck (Torelli)

More general?
The opening sentence of this article says that these catalogs are in "general use" and I was wondering if it might be ok to list catalogs that aren't as widespread yet. As an example, I have one for Joseph O'Kelly and his family but it is new, so presumably not yet in general use. If we can be more general, perhaps the Thematic catalogue article could be merged. Bassschlüssel (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Bassschlüssel :) I worked on the list but not on the prose.  As I went through that list, I saw there were a number of historical catalogs not in current use (perhaps used on older recordings?).  My feeling is that it should contain nearly all catalogs (but which would make the project akin to Brook & Viano's Thematic Catalogs in Music).  But yes, that introductory section needs a more musicological approach. :) -- kosboot (talk) 16:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Linking to this page
I think some shortcuts for specific catalogues would be very helpful to readers.

We are a general encyclopedia, and people will come here who love Mozart but have no idea (yet) what K. xxx means, that may even be exactly the information they seek. We already have a shortcut from Op. (which I'd like to take out of the DAB but that's another issue, and it's not too bad as is) and should have others for specific catalogues.

Where a detailed article exists on the catalogue in question, the shortcut should point to it of course. K. xxx for example in Mozart related articles should link to Köchel catalogue the first time such a number is quoted in the particular article, while S. should similarly link somewhere sensible in Liszt related articles, perhaps even here as there's no detailed article on Searle number at the time of writing, or perhaps to List of compositions by Franz Liszt, or perhaps to Category:Compositions by Franz Liszt.

And where there's no article and no suitable category but the catalogue appears in this list, the shortcut should point here.

Comments? Andrewa (talk) 21:30, 5 October 2014 (UTC)