Category talk:Voicing

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)

Solo vocal vs Choral solo

We seem to have a hierarchy of solo vocal and Choral solo categories. Ave maris stella (Josep Navarro i Solves) belongs more logically in the uncreated Choral solo STB than in solo STB, doesnt it? Richard Mix 22:16, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Hyphen in category titles

I just discovered that these voicing categories originally had a hyphen in the title (e.g. Category:2-part choral music). The reason for replacing them with a hyphen-less version seems to have been technical (some issue with the way they were handled by the wiki system). Is it possible that this issue is now solved with the upgrade to a newer version of the MediaWiki? If so, what about going back to the original titles? —Carlos  20:54, 23 August 2012 (CDT)