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

MLL webmll at laposte.net
Wed Nov 29 12:22:33 UTC 2006



Leiv Hellebø a écrit :
> 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?

Tedious albums add. Sometimes the booklet doesn't even provide the 
names, or it's truncated, or plain wrong. Example in 
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6050988 where I had to check 
each cantata's and dig each movement's names on some reference website.

> 
>  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." ?

Fine too for me.

MLL




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