Genre model

Genre (code) is a model in the main_app app. It inherits from BaseModel.

Genres are associated with individual Chants. A chant's genre indicates information about its form, as well as about when it should be sung during an office or mass.

Views

Genre has a Detail view and a List view.

Fields

• name: a short string: one or several characters identifying a specific genre. Examples: R, Ite, L
• description: a string: the name of the genre spelled out in full, sometimes along with a brief description. Examples: Responsory, Ite missa est, Lesson (when fully written out and notated).
• mass_office: a string. Evidently, it represents whether chants of the genre are sung during a office or during a mass. Examples: Office, Mass, Old Hispanic, Mass, Office.
• inherited from BaseModel:
  • date_created
  • date_updated
  • created_by
  • last_updated_by

Methods

• inherited from BaseModel:
  • save()
  • display_name (property)
  • get_absolute_url()
  • get_verbose_name()
  • get_verbose_name_plural()
  • get_fields_and_properties()