Don Redman wrote:
The choices are, in my opinion:
1) Use just one case (either lower case or upper case): I doubt
anyone supports this.
2) Use sentence-case (only first word capitalized):
3) Sentence case with proper nouns
4) Gramatical case (nouns and verbs, everything but prepositions or
everything but closed-class words, etc).
5) Every word capitalized.
I vote for 3. _IMO_ 1, 2 and 5 are over-simplifications, and 4 is not
"in the spirit of Latin", which really means I see no reason why we
should capitalize so much.
Just for completeness of the summary, derGraph proposes to use 4,
because it is more commonly used on the internet, and simpler or more
intuitive for the average user. You attribute this commonness to the
capitalization rules of the "host language" (usually English in this
case).
Of course my opinion is 3)
Just for your reference I report here some original documents. I think we
should not stick to Cicero (who had in fact different rules but wrote
nothing for music) and look to what was used for lyrics.
Mozart Requiem from his own hand
http://www.mozartforum.com/images/K626%20Requiem%20Dies%20Irae.jpg
Requiem is quite peculiar since a lot of composers did one with the same
words and there's a lot of entrìes of it in MB. Of course it's in sentence
mode even if he was german. A source from curch
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/calligraphy/pages/requiem/1618x1156.html
A gregorian missal
http://www.edwardschaefer.net/schaefer_courses/music_catholic_church/1300-1400/1300-1400_machaut_mass_kyrie_aural.htm
http://www.vokalmusik.ch/Kelly_dt/notation2.html Hildegard von Bingen
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/2d923f7b-45a1-4204-beb8-5b106e913b58.html
A bunch of work form various composers
http://www.basso-continuo.com/Gloria_d/2001/Glo_e1.htm tough not original,
it shows how credited people treat latin.
I'm sure we could go on and find that almost all classical music latin is
managed this way.
Ciao
MArco (ClutchEr2)
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