On 1/23/07, Age Bosma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> 2007/1/23, Aaron Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
>
> On 1/23/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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
> >
> > --
> > Frederic Da Vitoria
>
> Call me crazy, but I thought we had decided to use this form:
>
> Don GiovanniCOLON Act I, Scene III: "La ci darem la mano"
>
> Notice the COLON, the roman numerals, and the quotes around the first
> words of the scene.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
>
> Nope. I was wrong. Of course, the colon should immediately after the
> work name, as usual in classical. I copied the example from CSGD without
> thinking.
>
> About the quotes, users who participated to the CSGD discussion agreed
> to omit quotes, but there hasn't been a vote, this is still a discussion
> (although I should maybe have called it RFC), so you are right to say
> you don't agree!
>
> which gives
> Die Walküre: Act 3, Scene 2, Hier bin ich, Vater (Brünnhilde)
> (mebourne's edited example on CSGD)
> Don Giovanni: Act 1, Scene 3, La ci darem la mano
>
I can't find any history about this matter as fast as I would like to.
What was the reasoning behind the use of the colon behind the name of
the work? This differs substantially from the main classical guidelines
and it makes the last part (first words of the scene), imo
unnecessarily, ambiguous. The way I look at it would make one of the
following more appropriate:
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 3: La ci darem la mano
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 3: "La ci darem la mano"
I'd prefer to use quotes since it's actually a quote of the text.
Yours,
Age
Quotes are good for parts that are sung (feature singers) but I don't
think we should use them for orchestral parts (like preludes, etc.).
See this release for an example of how I think they should be entered:
http://musicbrainz.org/release/2aeeebbb-9594-4562-9afc-d539f28fa65b.html
--
-Aaron
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