Sooloos Collections: Advanced Guide - Meridian Audio

The Sooloos
system uses OR logic between same-type criteria but AND logic between different types. t In this
way picking
a number of artists or genres will expand the focus, selecting a composer, genre and
instrumentt
will narrow it.
Genre
The whole topic of music genres keeps musicologists very busy. In Sooloos we have recently splitt the Genres
focus into three separate sub-tabs and this was done to logically treat the three genre classes separately and
to improve one’s ability
to narrow (focus in on) a selection.
The Genres tab has three sub tabs:
• Genres: This Genre/Style sett allows us too roughly group music into types, e.g. jazz, country, classical,
folk and so on.
o Within each top-level Genre there are Subgenres and Styles and Focus allows you to select
any level (all of a top-level, all off a sub-genree or just one style). 9
o In the Classical Genre we includee all music which may bee popularly referred to ass ‘Classical’,
however the Style lists include era and types. 10
• Form: Here we allow you to specify musical forms. 11
• Instrumentation: This genre area allows us to flag or
focus on ensembles or instrument types. t For
example we might just wantt to see oboee or guitar music or music for quartets.
Focus uses AND logic between thesee three sections and OR logic within each e section. So adding more Forms
will expand a focus, whereas looking
for Forms with specific instrumentation will narrow the result. In
Genres we can focus on queries such
as: ‘show me all romantic chamberr music that includes bassoon’.
A list of the built-in Genre/Sub-genre/Style list iss given in the
appendix on page 62.
Sooloos Collections: Advanced Guide
9 For examplee we could focus on just Jazz, or specify all Cool Jazz or even more granularly g West Coast Jazz.
10 Era includes Medieval, Baroque, Renaissance, Classical. Romantic, Modern, 200 th -century, etc.
11 Classical Forms include such types as cantata, c concerto, fugue, sonata, etc.
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