2007/1/23, Age Bosma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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?
Just look at the CSG (section Track Title). We systematically put a colon between the name of the work and the subparts. 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"
Can you point us to "main classical guidelines" (outside MB)? If these exist, of course we should take them into account. Now if you are actually speaking of traditions... Your last suggestions (although closer to my first post in this thread) are quite different from the CSG rules, and although I am prepared to say opera does not strictly follow general CSG, I believe we should refrain from making more exceptions than necessary. I'd prefer to use quotes since it's actually a quote of the text. I can understand that. But since omitting quotes was suggested and more or less agreed upon (although not formally) in CSGD, the least I could do is propose it here. -- Frederic Da Vitoria
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