[mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement)

[Brian Schweitzer]

>
> Agreed. Types and tempos are capitalised according to the language in
> which
> they are written (Italian most common, examples in German, English, etc
> also
> exist).


I hadn't quite thought of it that way, but yes, that makes sense, and would
be easy to describe in a revised CSG, I think.


> > 2) Multiple types and or tempos for the same movement:
>
<snip>

> I'm not sure what rule you are advocating here.
>
> I see "-" as a separator between tempo markings.  I can agree with that.
> I'd
> like us to standardise on "—" (emdash), and accept "-" (minus sign, the
> one
> easy to type on a normal keyboard) as an alternate.


Sorry, I guess that could have looked confusing with the / to separate the
examples:

2) Multiple types and or tempos for the same movement:
     a1) Rondo. Allegro - andante
     a2) Rondo. Allegro - Andante

     b1) Rondo. Allegro & Minore. Allegro di molto
     b)2 Rondo. Allegro - minore. allegro di molto

I was suggesting the #1 cases.


> > 3) Minuet & Trio - easy, until you mix in tempos.  How do we want to
> > integrate these?
> >
> > Minuet. Andante & Trio
> > Minuet. Andante & Trio. Allegro
> > Minuet. Andante - più molto & Trio
> > Minuet. Andante - più molto & Trio. Andante - allegro - primo tempo
> >
> Using "/" to separate parts of a work within a track, I'd suggest.
>
> Minuet. Andante — più molto / Trio. Andante — allegro — primo tempo
>

I'd suggest not - we already use the slash in there, to separate multiple
movements combined on one track; using / for both would make differentiating
between sub-movement parts and multiple-movement combinations rather
difficult.


> > 4) Tema con variazioni

<snip>

> I don't quite follow your opening paragraph. Do you mean, some releases
> don't split each variation out to its own track, so that one track has
> multiple variations?
>
> I agree that the third reads as a decent compromise.  Again, I'm not clear
> where "&" comes from, when we already have the convention of "/" as a
> separator. I might suggest:
>
> Tema. Andante / Variations I - X / Variation XI. Adagio cantabile /
> Variation XII. Allegro
>

Yes, you have releases where "Tema. Andante con variazioni" is one track,
releases with variations split accross 2 or 3 tracks, and releases where
every single variation gets its own track.

As for the slash, again, the slash is used to differentiate movement I from
movement II when I and II both appear on the same track.  It is not used to
differentiate multiple sub-parts within a movement; we have the ampersand
for that.  So I could then have, as a single track:

Ia. Minuetto. Allegro & IIb. Trio & Ia. Minuetto. Allegro / II. Adagio -
andantino grazioso / II. Tema. Allegro & Variations I - X & Variation XI.
Andantino & Variation XII. Allegro con spirito - presto & Coda. Larghetto

If we slashed all of that, we'd get this comparatively more difficult string
to comprehend:

Ia. Minuetto. Allegro / IIb. Trio / Ia. Minuetto. Allegro / II. Adagio -
andantino grazioso / II. Tema. Allegro / Variations I - X / Variation XI.
Andantino / Variation XII. Allegro con spirito - presto & Coda. Larghetto

Brian
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