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The article is about sound recordings. For the Pet Shop Boys album, see Discography: The Complete Singles Collection. The capitalisation of song titles in this article is disputed Discography The Complete Singles Collection is an 18 track compilation by the UK Electronic music group Pet Shop Boys.

Discography is the study and listing of sound recordings.

This portmanteau word stems from:

  1. the gramophone record, often called a "disc", the dominant commercial medium of sound recording for most of the 20th century
  2. the -graph suffix signifying something written (see also autobiography, graphology and so on). A gramophone In Grammar, a suffix (also postfix, ending) is an Affix which is placed at the end of a word An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" Graphology is the study and analysis of Handwriting especially in relation to human Psychology.

A listing of all recordings which a musician or singer features on can be called their "discography". A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a Additionally, discographies may be compiled based on a particular musical genre or record label, etc. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music

The term "discography" was popularized in the 1930s by collectors of jazz records. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Jazz fans did research and self published discographies about when jazz records were made and what musicians were on the records, as record companies did not commonly include that information on/with the records at that time.

Bibliography

Notable books of discography

See also

External links

Jazz discography projects:

The Music Discographies at bjbear71. allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Discogs, short for discographies, is a Website and Database of information about Music Recordings including commercial releases promotional freedb is a Database of Compact disc track listings where all the content is under the GNU General Public License. Gracenote Inc is a company that maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio Compact discs It provides software MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an Open content Music database Rate Your Music is a Metadata database where musical Albums EPs, singles, Videos and bootlegs are rated and reviewed MPEG-4 is a collection of methods defining compression of audio and visual (AV digital data The International Standard Music Number or ISMN ( ISO 10957) is a ten-character alphanumeric Identifier for Printed music developed by ISO For the band called ISAN see Isan (band International Standard Audiovisual Number ( ISAN) is a unique identifier for audiovisual works and related International Standard Musical Work Code ( ISWC) is a unique identifier for musical works similar to ISBN. The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC defined by ISO 3901 is an international standard code for uniquely identifying sound recordings and music video recordings Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of Sound through mechanical and electronic means Sounds and noises are only separated by the experience of the listener A sound editor is a creative professional responsible for selecting and assembling Sound recordings in preparation for the final Sound mixing or Mastering com - http://bjbear71.com

Budget Labels Article, regarding false discographic details on some low-priced classical recordings

The Discographic "Den of Horrors" relating to Bruckner recordings

Dictionary

discography

-noun

  1. Complete collection of the releases of a musical act.
  2. List of all of the releases of a certain musical act, usually with release dates, and often with other information about the releases.
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