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True titles are specific to a single work. These are titles given by the composer, much as an author titles a novel. True titles are always italicized: From me flows what you call time; Pelléas et Mélisande; When true titles are mixed with generic titles, as is often the case in overtures and suites, only the true title is italicized. The ...
Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
Song titles are not really treated differently from other titles. According to modern conventions for works written after the introduction of moveable type, the title of a book or journal or magazine is rendered in italics but the title of a smaller work within a book or journal or magazine is placed within quotation marks.
(See WP:Manual of Style/Titles § Italics for details.) Minor works (and any specifically titled subdivisions of italicized major works) are given in double quotation marks not italics, even when the title is not in English. (For details, see § When not to use italics.) These cases are well-established conventions recognized in most style guides.
Songs (albums, song cycles, operas, operettas, and oratorios italicized) Individual episodes of television and radio series and serials (series title italicized) [ o ] Correct: The Beatles wrote "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" for their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .
In an Oct. 11 interview on Daniel Wall's Behind the Wall podcast, hit songwriter Evan "Kidd" Bogart spoke about writing the lyrics of RiRi's 2006 single and first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...
We already have a rule (see the Three Colors example) that a series title derived from part of the title of all the works in the series should be italicized as a title, and that's why we italicize in "the Harry Potter novel series" and "the Harry Potter film series". We didn't arrive at this result by doing a head-count of how many people off ...
The intent of the guidelines and the language templates that support them is to not italicize non-Latin-based scripts, with regard to italicizing titles of works, or material that is not English being italicized simply because it is non-English, or other reasons for italicization. Some scripts don't even support italicization in the first place.