Category talk:Voicing

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The voicing category should only contain links to categories which actually contain scores; we don't want to have listings for voicing categories that don't have any scores in them, which will only make the page longer and more complicated.

I also am changing the sorting rules so that these are a little more logical - S, A, T, B are not sorted alphabetically, and so the sorting under each number of voices is haphazard. Here's a first attempt to re-order the category:

I'll start with 10 or more voices: first part of the schema, increasing number of voices: 10vv, then 11vv, then 12vv... thus we're still increasing voices one by one from 10 upwards, but now sorted only under the one entry: ~ [[Category:Voicing|~10...
[[Category:Voicing|~11...
[[Category:Voicing|~12...

Second part of the schema: list all of the categories with single choir, then double, triple, finally four or more:
[[Category:Voicing|~12,1choir...
[[Category:Voicing|~12,2choirs...
[[Category:Voicing|~12,3choirs...
[[Category:Voicing|~40,4+choirs]]

Third part of the schema: alphabetically an AATB choir would come before a normal SATB choir, I think most people will want the list ordered from high voices down to low voices. So I'm going to use numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 in place of S, A, T, B. So SATB, or 1234, will then sort before AATB, or 2234. Unison or equal voices sort as 0.

So the first entry in the 10 or more voices will be 10 equal voices:
[[Category:Voicing|~10,1choir,0000000000]]
probably followed next by SSSAATTTBB:
[[Category:Voicing|~10,1choir,1112233344]]

--Pml 17:59:39, 2006-03-15 (PST)

Solo vocal vs Choral solo

We seem to have a hierarchy of solo vocal and Choral solo categories. Ave maris stella (Josep Navarro i Solves) belongs more logically in the uncreated Choral solo STB than in solo STB, doesnt it? Richard Mix 22:16, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Hyphen in category titles

I just discovered that these voicing categories originally had a hyphen in the title (e.g. Category:2-part choral music). The reason for replacing them with a hyphen-less version seems to have been technical (some issue with the way they were handled by the wiki system). Is it possible that this issue is now solved with the upgrade to a newer version of the MediaWiki? If so, what about going back to the original titles? —Carlos Email.gif 20:54, 23 August 2012 (CDT)

I would not change back to the hyphenated titles, because (1) it would involve changing all the categorizations (okay, I know that can be handled by templates and ReplaceText maneuvers, but that is just making more work); (2) the unhyphenated titles have been around for 5 years, and people are used to them. – Chucktalk Giffen 18:46, 28 August 2012 (CDT)
Thanks for your feedback, Chuck. Just one last doubt: on a strictly grammatical basis, is is correct/acceptable to write those titles without a hyphen? —Carlos Email.gif 19:27, 28 August 2012 (CDT)
Hi Carlos. As far as I know, and from considerable googling various "2-part harmony", "3-part harmonly", etc., it seems that both "2 part harmony" and "2-part harmony" are acceptable. – Chucktalk Giffen 21:23, 28 August 2012 (CDT)
That's fine, thanks! —Carlos Email.gif 00:18, 29 August 2012 (CDT)
If you Google recieve, you'll find hits for that too, but that doesn't make it correct. :) I think I remember that it is grammatically incorrect to omit the hyphen in one-part music (since one-part modifies music), but no hyphen should be used in "music in one part" (where "one part" does not modify something that follows). I am traveling and won't have access to my stylebook for about 2 weeks, but can check what it says after I get home. I've asked a copy editor friend if they can cite the relevant Stylebook excerpt in the meanwhile. --Vaarky (talk) 04:28, 7 September 2012 (CDT)
Compound adjectives take a hyphen, as in "that was a well-written essay" - pretty standard grammar rule. My students don't usually omit the hyphen twice. :) Jkelecom (talk) 01:00, 11 September 2012 (CDT)