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I agree completely with James' analysis re composer - the rules give a very clear definition of when Composer should be used - and a theme is not it.

I don't buy the "must have lyrics" argument, and I don't see what benefit it brings to us to add an additional field to cover these. Also I don't think it would fully solve the issue. What happens to another short piece of music that is not a theme? Do we add another field for them? Or ignore them?

I think they should be included in the current song writer field, so maybe we need a short clarification point in the rules that writers of any short composition should be included in the song writer field.

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You fired the firs shot, SIR. 
"You conveniently skipped right over this part."

Excuse my ignorance, but I fail to see the insult in Hal's comment. Do you think you have some sort of ownership on the word skip and any use of it in it's normal usage constitutes an insult to you? 

Please tell me I am understanding this wrong. 

The first insult I saw was "Nice ASSumption". 

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3. instrumental work in vocal style: an instrumental work written in the style of a composition or the voice, or, in popular music, any musical work

You conveniently skipped right over this part.

The farther down the list of definitions it is, the less relevance it has to that definition.

That's BS.  The context of the use of the word dictates which part of the defintion is relevant.  Words have numerous meanings, all of which are listed in the definition in the dictionary.

You don't just pick the first one and say, "oh, that's what that word means" without any context!  The third, fourth or fifth definition may be the only one that applies depending on how you are using the word.

In this case, the reference to "popular music" is extremely relevant.

Try another topic for licking Skip's boots!

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This gets my vote.  Skip is right in that a theme is not a song, but neither does it qualify under the rules for a Composer credit.  Since it is not song, it also does not qualify for a Songwriter credit.  Ken should add a "Theme Composer" button to the list that already has "Composer" and "Songwriter".  After all, StarTrek without Alexander Courage is looney tune time.

What a surprise!

Rifter agrees with Skip's extremely narrow interpretation of the word "song".

Shocking!

Amazing how you guys simply dismiss the part of the definition that doesn't happen to agree with your personal point of view!

They call that a scotoma!  (Use your Cambridge Dictionary to look it up!)

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The first definition of any word in a dictionary is the most commonly used, and variations are listed in descending order after that. 

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It is sad, really, when otherwise intelligent adults act like this.  It makes their opinions less than worthless as all I see now is, "Blah blah, idiot.  Blah blah, childish.  Blah blah, #&($. Blah...blah...blah."

Maybe it is just me, but I just don't get it.