Concert Report Punctuation Guide
Capitalize: Group Names:
Mastersingers MN Opera Two Rivers Chorale
Quotation Marks: Titles of songs and other short compositions:
“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” “Habanero”
Italicize: Titles of operas, plays, musicals, oratorios, motets, tone poems, and other long musical compositions:
The Magic Flute Messiah
Names of individual movements from larger works should be capitalized and italicized if not common to English usage, otherwise they appear with quotation marks:
Andante from Mozart’s Symphony in G Minor
OR
“On a rainy night” from Beckwith’s Lyrics of the T’ang Dynasty
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