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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