Talk:George Rochberg

Grove
Grove puts the death of the son as 1964 not 1963: anyone have better knowledge of the date? --Myke Cuthbert 18:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. I just added a link to a liner note essay that says the same thing: son died in '64. Also, it has an extensive quote from Rochberg explaining why he abandoned serialism -- and the quote is from '63. Perhaps his son's death completed his musical transition, but it was not the cause. Ribbonabaca (talk) 16:39, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, in the Life section, saying that his son's death had a "dissonant effect" on Rochberg sounds like a bad joke. (Equally ridiculous would be the technically more accurate statement that his son's death had a consonant effect....) Ribbonabaca (talk) 18:13, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Formatting work titles
Dear User:Fresternoch: I can only assume you have not yet read MOS:BOLD, which I have now directed you to at least four times. It leads to a section of Manual of Style/Formatting text, which reads in part:
 * Boldface (text like this) is common in Wikipedia articles, but only for certain usages.
 * Use boldface in the remainder of the article only in a few special cases:
 * To identify terms in the first couple of paragraphs of an article, or at the beginning of a section of an article, which are the targets of redirects to the article or section (e.g. sub-topics of the article's topic, rather than the synonyms as already boldfaced per the above). (See Wikipedia:Redirect § What needs to be done on pages that are targets of redirects? for examples and further details.)
 * Mathematical objects traditionally written in boldface such as vectors and the rational number symbols Q and Z.
 * Volume numbers of journal articles, in some bibliographic formats (particularly when "Volume" or "Vol." are omitted).
 * Similarly, in the last case, the formatting should generally be added implicitly by use of a template, such as.
 * Volume numbers of journal articles, in some bibliographic formats (particularly when "Volume" or "Vol." are omitted).
 * Similarly, in the last case, the formatting should generally be added implicitly by use of a template, such as.

Please observe that titles of musical compositions are not included amongst these exceptions. In addition, may I direct your attention to Manual of Style/Music, where you will find:
 * 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

I suggest further that you check any of a hundred randomly chosen composer articles to see how their works with true titles are formatted. You will discover that they are universally given in italics, not bolface or boldface italics.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 05:14, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

What is wrong with the evidence?
Why is User:Fresternoch now persistently removing Rochberg's own indication that Nach Bach is intended for the piano as well as for the harpsichord? I have not seen any evidence presented, either here or on the work's own article, that Rochberg ever changed his mind after publishing the score in 1967. The Theodore Presser website still lists these two performance options, and the overwhelming number of recordings favour the piano over the harpsichord.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 23:47, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

User:Jerome Kohl please go to the talk page of Nach Bach (Rochberg).—Fresternoch (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 23:51, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

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