[mailing] [mb-style] 'Op. XX No. YY' or 'Op. XX, No. YY'

[Andrew Conkling]

On 11/27/06, Leiv Hellebø <leivhe at broadpark.no> wrote:
> Aaron Cooper wrote:
> > Doesn't 63/1 mean that the work has two different catalog numbers?
>
> Well, not always:
>
> MB uses "Hob III/28" (although far from consistently), which according to
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_string_quartets_by_Joseph_Haydn
>
> is the same as "String Qt. No. 19 in C minor, Op. 17 No. 4"

However, we shouldn't get confused. AFAIK, the Hoboken numbers are the
primary way of cataloging Haydn's works, so really both numbers could
coexist. That'd get messy, of course--"String Qt. No. 19 in C minor,
Hob III/28, Op. 17 No. 4"? UGH--but the point is that the slash is
used there for a specific (perhaps unsanctioned?) purpose and
shouldn't be used anywhere else (or anywhere at all?).