This recording is mainly a prose text about the French Revolution. An instrumental recording of the Marseillaise is used as background music.
Usually, I would go with the solution that @chabreyflint suggested (→ Edit #97235712 - MusicBrainz )
- Work: Marseillaise (disambiguation: Schmetterlinge version/song); composer: Rouget de l’Isle, lyricist: Heinz Rudolf Unger; version of “La Marseillaise”
But this one is not really a song and it’s not “based on” the Marseillaise. The text is independent and the background music could be changed or left out. There is no ISWC entry for this particular work and on the release only the composition is credited. In fact, this corresponds to the current state - a recording consisting only of the work La Marseillaise. That would be perfectly fine for Discogs, but it’s incomplete for MB.
My idea was:
- an instrumental recording of the Marseillaise + a recording of a new work only consisting of the prose text: “Marseillaise” (prose text by H. R. Unger) ¹
But this is a rather unusual solution.
¹) H. R. Unger wrote the entire story and this credit is safe, although there’s no explicit mention
I hope for opinions on this topic!
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