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

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2006/11/29, MLL <webmll at laposte.net>:
>
>
> 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.

I agree. I know often people use the names probably because they are
much more easy to remember than the numbers.


> >> 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.

Actually better IMO. II-V suggests to me "2 to 5".

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria