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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.
Often, works are known by a nickname or common title. In this case, the nickname is specified after the formal title in parentheses and quotation marks. When the nickname is used in prose, it is enclosed in quotes. Song titles are enclosed in quotes. True titles of song cycles are italicized. Foreign language song titles remain in roman type.
Quotation marks should be avoided, except for the name of a theme in a set of variations in a generic article title: Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman" Variations on "I Got Rhythm" Otherwise the use of quotation marks in generic artitle titles is limited to a very few cases: Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks"
There are many articles with series titles in italics, including the article titles in some cases. Before changing lots of them, and since there hasn't been a lot of discussion, can we confirm that quotation marks should be added (except in article titles) and italics should be removed for the titles of series.
That tends to be my opinion as well: The parenthetical elements in titles like "It Takes a Little Rain (to Make Love Grow)" function not as subtitles or alternative titles but as extensions of titles, so that although the "real" title is "It Takes a Little Rain", many people may refer to the song as "It Takes a Little Rain to Make Love Grow ...
Italicised song titles indicate an instrumental recording. Italicised album names indicate an instrumental album. A number in brackets after the song title means that there have been different songs with the same name. If a particular song is on more than one album, all albums are listed alphabetically.
Some titles of major works will reference other titles of major works; some of the former will even go so far as to literally italicize the latter on their covers and cover pages. For example: McIntee, David (2000). Delta Quadrant: The unofficial guide to Voyager. London: Virgin Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7535-0436-7. Rindsberg, Ashley (c. 2021).