[mb-style] Cantata and movement names names: where ?

Leiv Hellebø leivhe at broadpark.no
Wed Nov 29 11:45:03 UTC 2006


MLL wrote:
> Leiv Hellebø wrote :
>>
>> NOTE 1: For opera we don't quote the opera and aria names, and I would 
>> like it very much if we could drop them for cantatas as well.
> 
> I think this should not be mandatory anyway,

Maybe not, but why not?

  and this is another
> argument for "name after work number", because then "Cantata, BWV 147 
> "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"" and "Cantata, BWV 147" fit the same 
> search pattern.
> 

We agree on the general pattern :)

> 
> I'd have labelled it
> 
> "Cantata, BWV 17 "Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich": II.V. Aria (Tenor) 
> "Welch Übermaß der Güte""
> 
> or
> 
> "Cantata, BWV 17 "Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich": Part II.V. Aria 
> (Tenor) "Welch Übermaß der Güte""
> 
> or other incarnations like "II-V.", "Part II-V.",...
> 

What about "Part II, V." ?

> 
> Note the fact that Part II is after the colon.

I certainly did, and I certainly liked it! :)


leivhe



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