2007/1/23, Age Bosma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> This has been much discussed in ClassicalStyleGuideDiscussion, and I
> feel it is time we tried to make it official. So here is a proposition
> for opera tracks.
>
> 1 - Opera name
> ( - No catalogue number)
> ( - No movement number)
> 2 - Act number
> 3 - Scene number
> 4 - First words of the scene
> 5 - Part (optional)
>
> which gives
> Die Walküre, Act 3, Scene 2: Hier bin ich, Vater (Brünnhilde)
> (mebourne's example on CSGD)
> Don Giovanni, Act 1, Scene 3: La ci darem la mano
The Sleeping Beauty is a ballet, so rules for operas wouldn't apply here.
But since you ask about a ballet, I'll give you my opinion (but this is only
my own opinion).
I have to admit I'm not much of an opera expert. In case of the release
I mentioned yesterday (Tchaikovsky's 'The Sleeping Beauty' [1]) I was
first thinking in the lines of:
[track 2] Prologue, No. 1, Op. 66: Marche (Entrance of King and Court)
[track 10] Act 1, No. 8a, Op. 66: Pas d'action: Introduction (Andante) -
Adagio ("Rose Adagio")
[track 15] Act 2, No. 10, Op. 66: Entr'acte et scène
Release references: [2] [3] [4]
How would you translate these track titles using the proposal?
With your proposal this would mean I have to include 'The Sleeping
Beauty' in each track title? This seems to me like overkill again. It's
already the release title.
This is a general classical rule: the name of the work should be included in
each track. This rule is explained in CSG. Your "overkill" feeling would
apply as well to a release containing only one symphony.
A useful consequence of this rule is that the tracks can be recovered
without having to go through the release. Imagine someone requesting for all
the tracks for Sleeping Beauty's Prologue: If you don't include the work
name in the track, you will have to build a request recovering Prologues in
releases titled Sleeping Beauty as well as tracks named "Sleeping Beauty:
Prologue" (or something like it) in order to recover compilations tracks.
While if you state the name of the work in each track, the second part of
the above request will do the trick, since the rules will be the same for
compilations as for single work releases.
Also, you suggest to add the first words of the scene. This is very much
open for interpretation (how many first words?) and what if the
booklet/cover doesn't list any words of the scene? In the above example
this info is all I got, so no word of a scene.
I would be happy to leave 'Op. 66' out of the track titles, but should
this bit be lost completely?
Of course, for a ballet, this does not apply.
Am I correct with the assumption that the 'No. x' bits should be left
out altogether as well? Or does this fall under the 'Part' bit?
I don't know for ballets. We'll have to wait for someone more knowledgeable
to give his opinion. Anyhow, this would be a separate thread.
--
Frederic Da Vitoria
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