How to Handle Soundtrack Entries for TV Shows

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Appropriation of works by films

I see that @dkg added this work earlier this year. It lists a number of parts, including Auld Lang Syne. It doesn’t seem right to me for soundtracks to “appropriate” other works in this way and include them as parts unless they were specifically composed for the soundtrack. I’m not an expert on soundtracks, but I imagine there are many that use classical pieces. I haven’t come across any classical works (so far) that have been catalogued as being “part of” a soundtrack ‘work’ and I would hope th…

When is a part not a part?

Or, to be more precise, under what circumstances can a work be a part of more than one work? I have come across several instances where a work has been listed as a ‘part’ of another work where the relationship hadn’t struck me as being “proper”. The one that struck me most recently was the soundtrack Neon Genesis Evangelion which listed several original Bach works among its parts (in one case duplicated by an arrangement). I deleted these relationships, but haven’t fixed it with alternatives (a…