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In popular music, album, mixtape and EP titles should be italicized and song and single titles should be in quotes: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles was included on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The names of concert tours are not formatted beyond ordinary capitalization.
Articles and chapters (books and periodicals italicized) Short stories (books and periodicals italicized) Sections of musical pieces (pieces italicized) Individual strips from comics and webcomics (comics italicized) Poems (long or epic poems italicized) Songs (albums, song cycles, operas, operettas, and oratorios italicized)
It particularly applies to works that exist as a smaller part of a larger work. Examples of titles which are quoted but not italicized: Articles, essays, papers, or conference presentation notes (stand-alone or in a collected larger work): "The Dos and Don'ts of Dating Online" is an article by Phil McGraw on his advice site.
For example, non-English names listed as translations in the lead of an article should be italicized, e.g. Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg). Non-English names of works should be italicized just like those in English are, e.g. Les Liaisons dangereuses .
Grandpa was in World War II, not "World War II". As for the italicized case, we don't use quotation marks and italics at the same time; "failing" to also use quotation marks with the (incorrectly) italicized #4 examples doesn't create any ambiguity, and adding them doesn't make the example any clearer, just twice as wrong.
Song titles are enclosed in quotes. True titles of song cycles are italicized. Foreign language song titles remain in roman type. Generic movement titles (such as tempo markings) are capitalized and in roman type. True movement titles are enclosed in quotation marks.
Anyway, I'm more than happy to get WMF's expertise. That's fine. Among the 7 existing "model lyrics use articles" cited at the guideline Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan which includes selected lyrics in block quotes and audio excerpts is perhaps the best benchmark for this. As it stands all 7 examples are English songs, not non-English.
Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist . The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a " libretto " and their writer, as a " librettist ".