User:Symphonick/CSG Work Titles

Status: This page describes an active style guideline proposal and is not official.

Proposal number: RFC-CSG Works part II: Titles Champion: symphonick Current status: pre-RFC

Sources

The name should be recorded in MB as it exists in print from a reliable source, such as a recent urtext edition. Adding to or altering a title given by the composer or publisher should be avoided (see aliases).

If you don't have access to the best edition, just use the best source you can find. The title can be corrected later.

Note: So-called generic or "untitled" works are outside the scope of this proposal.

Language

If possible, use the language of the first performance (if the work was written with a specific performance in mind).

Aliases

Note: It is expected that eventually, both the user's preferred language AND the default workname can be shown in the UI.

Nicknames

Remember that nicknames are local.

Note: There's possibility we get a specific field for nicknames.

Catalogue numbers

Since catalogue numbers are an important part of identifying a work, as a workaround one catalogue number can be added to the title. If more than one catalogue is used for a work, try to find the most commonly used catalogue.

Note: There's possibility we get a specific field for catalogue numbers, or that advanced properties can be used for this purpose.

Examples

• Carmen
• An den Mond, D 468
• Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147
• „Wie unglücklich bin ich nit“, K. 147 (125g)
• Gymnopédie No. 1
• Москва, Черемушки, Op. 105
• L'oiseau de feu