Talk:Matthew Passion/NBA BWV table

To do list: please help
Woz2 (talk) 14:37, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Of course, the captialization convention in English is "title case for titles," even if the title is a sentence from the lyrics (All You Need Is Love not All you need is love.). Specifically, on the English booklet that comes with a St MP CD (e.g. Herreweghe's version) the German titles are generally in English-style title case. But User:Gerda Arendt tells me this is the wrong convention for German, where (German) sentence case is used even for titles. TODO: Find out what the English wikipedia style guide has to say on this matter. (Update: Found it WP:CAPM. User:Gerda Arendt was right. Woz2 (talk) 14:58, 28 November 2010 (UTC))
 * I guess the titles should be in italics
 * Need a fourth column with English translations of the titles
 * In the reference I had (Greenberg's course notes) there wasn't enough info to interpolate some of the numbers exactly. For example: How do BWV244/13-15 map to NBA 9a-e exactly? If you count the lettered subsections of NBA, it totals 102 divisions, so a one-to-one mapping to BWV's 78 isn't possible.
 * It would be good for a wikitable expert to reformat the table to incorporate the idea of three levels of vocal movement: narration - personal reflection - chorale. The main article uses a manually numbered list with colon indents to convey this nicely. But colon indents don't seem to work inside table cells. If we could incoporate the level idea it might be possible to copy and paste this table directly into the main article, provided it wouldn't be information overload. Of course it always possible to keep this table here as an "advanced" version and keep the simpler one in the main article. Thoughts?
 * Greenberg roundly criticizes NBA for creating confusion with a second St MP numbering scheme with no added value. Any counter argument to that? Does NBA add any value over BWV in this particular case? What was their rationale here? (I'm not talking about the NBA project overall, just St MP mvt numbers.)

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I reformatted the table, did the WP:CAPM, italics, and identation. Needs a proof-reading and checking. Does the Barrabam! section have a number? Also I'm unsure about NBA:58e equivalent in the BWV scheme. Woz2 (talk) 04:17, 13 December 2010 (UTC)