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

[Brian Schweitzer]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Leiv Hellebo <leiv.hellebo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Perhaps; I guess that's going to come at us when we stop using full
CSG and switch to much more "what's on the liner" anyhow.  I was
thinking less about omitted parts of titles, and more along the lines
of "Allgro", "cantble", "Symfany", or "Conserto" - each of which I've
seen on a liner at least once.

Brian