Guess Case Mode / Classical Mode

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Classical guess case mode

Guess case modes > Classical capitalization mode

This page describes the Classical mode of the GuessCase JavaScript tool.

Some rules are already included in standard GuessCaseMode/DefaultMode but will be repeated. (All this is very draft.)

Always lowercase
- minor, major, minore, maggiore, mineur
- sharp, flat (maybe they should be hypened to key (as D-sharp) but there's no consensus about this)
  - Couldn't we use ♯, ♭? Unicode is widely used in MB and is well supported by taggers. A title with do♯ or G♭, instead of do-diesis and G-flat, would be precise, unambiguous, language-agnostic and shorter.

Always uppercase
- english key notation "A, B, C, D, E, F, G"
- German notation: in fact quite a mess

Proper case
- italian key notation "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si"
  - Personnaly i've never saw those with a cap and wouldn't like it --lindestinel
  - All the Italian writing style guides I have suggest to use lowercase for notes --gioele

No. --- no num nr / Op. --- op opus opera
- Always put dot at the end and a blank bfore number "No. 5" "Op. 43"

convert "Op. 2 #1" -> "Op. 2, No. 1". is this correct? -- Keschte
- - Generally yes. But please note that: 1) # could be sharp sign and could be confused, eventually check if it's adjacent with a number 2) we never reached consensus about commas, personally I wont add it. --ClutchEr2
  - I don't add the comma either, we already have one before Op., note that I've proposed a different notation (Op. 2/1) but no much people seem to like it :) --lindestinel

Trim final dot and propercase work catalog
- BWV D RV J Hob HWV WwO (Work without Opera) KV (Mozart, often noted as K. to be corrcted)
  - You mean Work Without Opus ? --lindestinel
    - I think Wwo is a mispelling for WoO (see ClassicalStyleGuide) --davitof

- - KV != K. KV means a Kochel v1 number is being used, K. means at Kochell v6 number is being used. They often are the same number - "Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, K. 16" is the same as "Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, KV 16". However, "Symphony in F major, K. 19a/Anh. 223" in KV notation would be "Symphony in F major, KV Anh. 223" - note that the K6 number has been lost. "Symphony in F major, KV 19a/Anh. 223" is... meaningless. -- BrianSchweitzer 21:41, 03 October 2007 (UTC)

Guess movement roman numerals and capitalize and dot them, at least uncommon ones
- I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. could be enough
  - I think you can go to XXXII (Bach's Goldberg Variations) --davitof

I think about that if something is Act 2 or scene 1 this will be a problem though, how to define a *section* of the name? ~mo

- Yes, but luckly Act or Scenes are (almost) never dotted so "2." is (quite) always a movement indication. --ClutchEr2

Use sentence mode for what comes after roman numerals. If this should be unfair for the little part of works with language other than Italian we could build a list of the words surely to be lowercased, it should not be too long.