[mb-style] [CSG] Short form CSG (was Re: Bach passions and CSG)

[Leiv Hellebo]

Brian Schweitzer wrote:
> Side question: When you say correcting typos, are you referring to
> ArtistIntent of the composer or of the performers?  (I'd hope you mean
> the former; determining AI can be hard enough without also potentially
> assuming some group of classical performers decided to rename a work
> with a misspelling for *any* reason).

I guess I was thinking of the former (but read on): I recently pointed 
out a typo for a Shostakovich track (originally in Russian, the Naxos 
cover had English), to which the editor at first replied that the cover 
did use the typo. (Indeed, classical.com and other places getting data 
from the same source had the same typo.)

But typos are hard: F. Couperin did not write modern French, so for 
really old titles it might be impossible to know both what the artist 
wanted, and what was considered correct at that time.

It is quite probable that no performers mean to introduce typos in 
titles, but perhaps some performers consider it acceptable to e.g. leave 
out the "cantabile" in a title where the original score had it in, 
because it was not played very cantabile?


Leiv