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L@@K!  Read Me First - A Datalogue®  Disclaimer
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Datalogue®  Foreword by Richard Bonynge

Datalogue®  Searching      

Datalogue® Entry Fields Defined

 

Datalogue® is the data component of The Durbeck Archive; a custom, structured report of discographical data  gleaned from the database of The Durbeck Archive. The dynamic aspect of  Datalogue® is that the system used for the accession and organization of  data is  flexible in its ability to gather and present this information in a highly organized format, unique to the demands of each individual query. 

With 7,800+ complete opera recordings exhaustively catalogued, The Durbeck Archive has the capability of creating a  Datalogue® on any aspect of the statistical (not musical) content of these recordings.  None of the records therein listed are for sale - only the discographical information is offered as a fee-based service.

For a complete understanding of The Durbeck Archive, please read the following: The Durbeck Archive.  For a complete understanding of how the database for each opera is entered, please read the following: Entry Fields Defined.  Only data which has been entered into a specific field can be retrieved by Datalogue®.  To understand these entry fields , here is a complete data entry for an opera in
The Durbeck Archive.

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About the opera

Opera:  LOHENGRIN (1850)
Libretto:  Text by the composer
Composer:  Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
National Orgin:  NO/German

About the Recording

Set Number:  LPM 18 084/85/86/87/88
Individual LP Numbers:   LPM 18 084, LPM 18 085, LPM 18 086, LPM 18 087,
                                             LPM 18 088
Label:  Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft
Phonics:   monaural
Number of LPs:  5  -  12" LPs; automatic playing sequence
Accompanying Text:  libretto (German), liner notes in German
Recording Location:  Munich
Recording Date:  ©1953
Year:  1953
Packaging:  double hinge, standard size opera box
Notes:  Studio recording
Also issued as:  DXT 131, LPX 11/12/13/14/15,
                             LPM 8 20 007/008/009/010/011
 
About the performers

Conductor:  Eugen Jochum
Orchestra:  Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Chorus:   Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Josef Kugler, dir.

CAST

Role ................................................................................................... Performer

Lohengrin: ....................................................................... Lorenz Fehenberger
Elsa: ......................................................................................... Annelies Kupper
Telramund: ............................................................................ Ferdinand Frantz
Ortrud: ........................................................................................... Helena Braun
König Heinrich: .......................................................................... Otto van Rohr
Der Heerrufer: ................................................................................ Hans Braun
Vier brabantische Edle: ............................................................. Franz Weiss
                                                                                                               Karl Kreile
                                                                                                    Heinz-Maria Lins
                                                                                                       Maximilian Eibl
Vier Edelknaben: ................................................................... Margot Grebner
                                                                                                     Isolde Combach
                                                                                                         Dagmar Naaff
                                                                                                        Therese Oertel

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Reference note:  In The Durbeck Archive discographical system, the colon ( : ) is used as the field demarcation symbol.  Consider the LOHENGRIN example above and note where the colons are located; the word immediately preceding the colon is the field name for every entry - everything following the colon is data.

The field names in bold type are generic for all Archive opera entries.  Role names followed by a colon are field names specific to each individual opera, however a universal name such as "Maria" will be used in many operas so there will be many "Maria: fields,"  thus the request for commonly used names should be opera specific e.g. "Maria Padilla."

Understanding the use of field names will make forming your discography request easier - both in the clarification of your request and in the comprehension of Archive billing practices.  More often than not, if a discographical request is clearly  articulated, the selected fields to satisfy that request will be self-evident.

 
Since e-mail disallows the transmission of formatting commands,  e-mailing a discography as seen above would be impossible.  The above illustration is shown to indicate how complete operas are catalogued in The Durbeck Archive.  All of this data is available in a generic report style such as the one shown below. The search argument was to find all the singers in The Durbeck Archive who recorded the role of Telramund. This is only a partial list but it shows the report format for such a request.  This is the basic data format which will be used in all such custom discographical data requests.

Telramund: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau 
Telramund: Julius Huehn 
Telramund: Giangiacomo Guelfi 
Telramund: Ferdinand Franz
Telramund: Hermann Uhde 
Telramund: Siegmund Nimsgern 
Telramund: Hermann Uhde 
Telramund: A. Bogdanov 
Telramund: Fred Destal 
Telramund: Hermann Uhde 
Telramund: Ernest Blanc 
Telramund: Gustav Neidlinger 
Telramund: Carl Kronenberg 
Telramund: Eberhard Wächter 

While the entire data structure for a complete opera, such as that for the LOHENGRIN recording shown above (less formatting) is available, virtually any combination of recording data entries can be culled for a custom data report, just as shown above for the list of baritones singing the role of Telramund. Using Boolean search techniques, data from any of the entry fields can be combined into data searches.  Here is a sample Datalogue® query: find the opera recordings in The Durbeck Archive which (1) Callas recorded with (2) Del Monaco, conducted by (3) Serafin;  Your search argument would look like this:

  callas del monaco serafin

  search

                       Answer:      NORMA
                                           (29 June 1955)
                                           (Rome; Foro Italico)
                                           (RAI Roma Orchestra and Chorus)

(Note: The Archive has four different pressings of this performance.)

With 7,800+ complete opera recording catalogued, the amount of discographical data is immense and in The Durbeck Archive system of discographical data entry, every single bit of data is totally cross-referenced - ALL of it! - which makes these multi-tiered queries possible.  Name, dates, locations, roles, etc. - it's all there.  To be sure, all of this information is available somewhere else, in many other forms (books, journals, recording liner notes, microfilm, the Internet etc.) but researching those many references takes valuable time - even when the material is readily available.  Datalogue® offers this research as never before possible - or available.

Obviously, there are queries which can result in a greater number of multi-line search results.  Remember - the narrower the search argument, the fewer the query results are going to be, for example:  in the above sample query,  an opera had to  feature Callas-and-Del Monaco-and-Serafin and  there was only that one opera performance recording which met the total search argument, the one on which all three of them appeared. Consider the same three artists in these search queries: 
                             Callas-and-Del Monaco = 18 results
                             Callas-and-Serafin = 64 results
                             Del Monaco-and-Serafin = 10 results

To list all of the possible combinations of mixed-field and Boolean searches would be almost impossible and definitely impractical.  Collectors are familiar with their own special interests and can basically verbalize their individually specific needs.  The best way to posit a search inquiry is in a conversational manner such as, "How many complete opera recordings did Tebaldi make (on LP) in 1959?"  The answer is four: AIDA (1871) September 1959; BOHEME, LA (1896) July 1959; TOSCA (1900) 1959; TURANDOT (1926*) 3,4,6-11 July 1959.

Finally, search possibilities are limited only by your "need to know" instincts.

 

The Durbeck Archive Disclaimer
(aka, the fine print)

All references to complete opera recordings and Archive inventory relate directly to those opera recordings owned by The Durbeck Archive.  The Durbeck Archive does not catalogue any complete opera recordings not physically self owned, therefore all data in the Archive database is taken directly from the record itself, unless there has been additional research to make each opera entry more complete.  All known and recognized errors on Archive recordings have been corrected.

Archive inventory is only on the LP (long playing record) format - no CD's, no tapes, no 78's or 45's) - strictly LPs only.   As previously stated at other appropriate instances, The Durbeck Archive is in constant acquisition mode, with new entries being added on a regular basis.  Each Datalogue® will be as diurnally complete as Archive inventory at the time each request is received.

 

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