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Per the overall MOS guidance to use logical quotation, punctuation should be placed outside the quotation marks (title formatting) of songs: Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited album includes the songs "Like a Rolling Stone", "Ballad of a Thin Man", and "Desolation Row". Of course, if the song title itself contains punctuation, it goes inside: "Help!"
The quotation marks look wrong to me, and make pages with lots of song titles look scrappy. But this is just my opinion and possibly misguiding knowledge about style. I don't see why they should be treated differently from titles of books, or why there should be a distinction between popular song titles and the titles of orchestral works, for ...
Story lines that span multiple issues of a periodical; Songs, instrumentals, arias, numbers in a musical, movements of longer musical piece, album tracks, singles, and other short musical compositions: The Beatles' song "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band " appears on the album also titled Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
In Porter's 1935 show Jubilee, an alternate lyric for the song "My Most Intimate Friend" goes "and Miss Otis thinks she'll be able to attend." Truman Capote, in his article published in the November 1975 issue of Esquire Magazine, relates a story Porter told him. Porter used "Miss Otis" as a punchline in the 1950s, opening the door to dismiss a ...
Capitalization of song titles and album titles should be consistent with the guidelines for composition titles; in particular, capitalize the first and last word and all other words except: coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor; also for, yet, so when used as conjunctions)
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
References the biblical story of Samson and Delilah. [182] "Scentless Apprentice" In Utero: Nirvana: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer: Patrick Süskind [104] " The Sensual World " The Sensual World: Kate Bush: Ulysses: James Joyce: The 1989 Kate Bush song The Sensual World was based on the closing paragraphs of Ulysses. However, the Joyce ...
This is an alphabetically ordered list of sub-titles, nicknames and non-numeric titles that have been applied to classical music compositions of types that are normally identified only by some combination of number, key and catalogue number. These types of compositions include: symphony, concerto, sonata, and standard chamber music combinations ...