Talk:Sinfonia antartica

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In Italian, "Antartica" is correct. So if you are referring to the title of the symphony remember it's "Antartica," not "Antarctica." Thanks! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 15:11, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

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Discuss the move here. It seems to me common practice across classical music articles that a symphony is listed as such and not by a subtitle (eg. Symphony No. 3 (Gorecki) rather than Symphony of Sorrowful Songs).  C e n t y  – [ reply ]• contribs  – 20:49, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment Well, Górecki's Third is easier to refer to by number than by that long subtitle. In RVW's case, it seems like people are split down the middle. Anton Mravcek 21:23, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I am also not at all convinced that this is a subtitle. The work didn't even have a number until several years after it came out...up till then it was simply known as "Sinfonia antartica." And what does one do about the Copland symphonies, then? --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 00:12, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose Unlike (IIRC) Gorecki's, this symphony is predominantly known by this name. WP:COMMON; compare the Symphonie Fantastique, Alpine Symphony. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 17:05, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


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It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it to be moved. --Stemonitis 16:26, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I seem to recall that Vaughan Williams's next Symphony was announced as "No 8" from the start. It must therefore follow that the "Antartica" can properly be referred to as No 7. I don't think there was ever any insistence in 1953, and I heard the premiere in the Free Trade Hall, that it should only be known as "Sinfonia Artartica", though I accept that Vaughan Williams had never actually numbered his symphonies before the Eighth. Even in 1953 they were commonly discussed as though he had numbered them - from the start the E minor had been known as the Sixth, for example. It, and the two preceding Symphonies, had not been named and were distinguished only by their keys, so they naturally attracted numbers. If there was any debate, it was over whether the description "symphony" could properly be applied to the work, not a number. Delahays Delahays (talk) 21:09, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

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Nobody seems to have wondered exactly what the quotations imply about the work. Given Vaughan-Williams's known political sympathies, and that the Shelley Prometheus excerpt had been seen by him in 1948 as a possible text for a Hymn of Victory, how are we to see the work as a whole?Delahays (talk) 00:49, 6 April 2021 (UTC)