i sort mine by cd box colours:eyebrows:
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i sort mine by cd box colours:eyebrows:
Haha - some of those names I cited were taken from a boxed set of Medieval music directed by the late David Munrow. I like the idea that if the exact birth year is unknown, musicologists will often use the term "fl." meaning 'he/ she flourished', denoting a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active.
I would file Bach (and his sons) before Handel, simply because "B" comes before "H" (and in connection to the above: Handel would come before Hildegard of Bingen). Whilst I admire your method of cataloging, and admit doing so on a historical basis means that if you are in the mood for some, say, Medieval music you would go to those records filed under the 12th and 13th century; or if Mozart you would look under 18th century, it wouldn't work for me!
A friend at University tried to do something similar with his record collection; putting 'similar' music next to one another. It didn't work of course as 'similarity' is not linear, and he would have had to have some sort of 3-dimensional system. Even then, it wouldn't work physically, but I suppose with an electronic filing system one could apply 'fuzzy' logic, so that if after playing a record you wanted to hear something similar, you would type in the title of the record just played and the system would suggest a few titles that were in some way musically similar.