Talk:Équinoxe

Use in documentary
Equinoxe Part IV was used in a science documentary some years ago, and I'm wracking my brain trying to remember which one. If you know, please add it to this article. dkliman (talk) 15:34, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Equinoxe parts 1, 3 and 4 were apparently used in "Cosmos"


 * The website http://cosmic_voyager.tripod.com/cosmosindex.htm contains a list of the music featured in the original US TV broadcasts.
 * The music used in other versions can and does differ for various reasons that are explained there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.121.201 (talk) 05:58, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Instruments list
Re: "Fairlight CMI Digital Sampling Synthesiser" that someone added – did this exist in 1978? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ricadus (talk • contribs) 18:29, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


 * No, the frst well-known album on which a Fairlight CMI was used was Peter Gabriel in 1980. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.73 (talk) 20:10, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Kind of irrelevant now, as the Fairlight has long since been removed from the list. Richard3120 (talk) 01:20, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Name of the album
It should be Equinoxe, without the accent. Some releases of the album:

Germany CD

MFSL CD

France LP

Canada CD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.74.246.99 (talk) 19:36, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

The title is, without accent, in discogs you can see the list of releases, including referring *scans*.(E-Kartoffel (talk) 13:09, 11 April 2010 (UTC))

It is without accent, because:
 * Equinoxe is a title, or a name, with a first capital letter. In common french language, accents on letters vanish when capitalized. Within a french sentence about an equinox, it would be spelled équinoxe (only if it is not the first word in the sentence). When you speak about the work titled Equinoxe, it is spelled without accent.
 * Sadly the discogs.com community does not understand that OXYGENE (all capitalized, as used on many releases) stands for Oxygène, this is truly their fault. the wikipedia community is better informed ... (E-Kartoffel (talk) 13:11, 12 April 2010 (UTC))
 * seems to go against that. I would like to revert; does anybody disagree? -- Red rose64 (talk) 17:00, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Page moved. Ucucha 02:37, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Équinoxe → Equinoxe — Equinoxe should be listed without accent, see here a well researched list of releases: http://www.discogs.com/Jean-Michel-Jarre-Equinoxe/master/49172 User:E-Kartoffel 10:53, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Even on the French-language pages on the artist's website, it's without the accent, though the accents for other releases such as Oxygène are present. I wouldn't put much stock in the website you cited -- it indiscriminately strips all diacritics (at least on the Jarre pages I looked at) and therefore tells us nothing about how to write the name of this particular album in English. The artist's website is the most authoritative thing we'll get on something like this (as opposed to, say, the name of a city), so we can move to Equinoxe safely without having to consider more questionable sources. --Atemperman (talk) 20:28, 16 February 2010 (UTC)


 * This may be relevant: "“É”, the upper-case version of “é”, has lost some use in French due to typographical reasons. “E” can be sometimes used in its place, when the accented “é” is unavailable “E” is sometimes used to represent it. For example “ÉCOLE” becomes "ECOLE"." —   AjaxSmack   02:57, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Does that mean that in French works of reference, words with accents on capital letters are treated as if the accent weren't there? Or in some typographical styles, are hte accents there but "invisible"?  FWIW, fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecole redirects to fr.wikipedia.org/École.  --Atemperman (talk) 16:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

cosmos TV series Carl Sagan
Parts of Equinox also used in the above. Perhaps it should be included in the article. Jakescows (talk) 13:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes it was used in the TV series, but we would need a reliable source to use as a reference in order to add it. Richard3120 (talk) 13:08, 1 September 2017 (UTC)