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The Very Quick Guide to Searching |
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The Search Page provides for the separate searching of works and publications. The works of a composer are those entities that are documented (or should be documented) in a catalogue of the composer’s works. A publication is a published edition of a single work or a chosen set of works which is usually designed to serve as a performance score. To search the repertoire one should begin with a search of works. The information about works is more precise and better organised than the information about published editions of works, that is to say, scores. The database is neither complete nor perfect and errors and omissions may be found. The policy of the service provider is to correct all errors when they are found. |
Free text searches employ a "fuzzy search" procedure. The search string you enter is "interpreted" to enlarge the scope of the search. Contains text searches seek an exact match with the string you enter. Both searches, as implemented in this application, provide for the use of the "and" operator (only one for a works search, one or two for a scores search). The pages found by a search are ranked according to the degree of concordance with the search string. The results of a search are ordered by rank. |
The size of result sets returned by any search is limited to 150 lines to avoid fruitless overloading of the computer systems. A result over 150 lines is, in any case, too large to be useful. Learn by experimentation. Enter some search strings and see what happens. You won't break the system. Examine the results, both the returned lists and the pages corresponding to entries in the lists.
When you have the time or the need for fuller information, follow the link in the advanced searches section to the more complete guide. |