FEATURE: location of libretto or other sung text
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:21 pm
Hello,
Having uploaded a Russian translation of Wagner's Ring recently, I was thinking of where on IMSLP would be the best place to post libretti of operas (or other sung texts) -- other than simply supplying a link to an external source (which might disappear).
Methinks it would be best to put the links for these texts on the page for the work itself (even if the author is someone other than the composer), rather than in a separate place, as long as links can work so that the libretto/text title shows up on the Category:[author's/authors'] page(s) and on Category:Books page.
(Maybe a separate "Category" page should be created for song texts, otherwise the Category:Books page would become unnecessarily huge and user-hostile. Possibly separate text Categories for opera, oratorio, cantata, etc.?)
Related to this, there are many opera/oratorio/cantata/song libretti online, mostly in HTML format (some in .doc or other). If these were converted to PDF, they could be uploaded as postulated above.
Having uploaded a Russian translation of Wagner's Ring recently, I was thinking of where on IMSLP would be the best place to post libretti of operas (or other sung texts) -- other than simply supplying a link to an external source (which might disappear).
Methinks it would be best to put the links for these texts on the page for the work itself (even if the author is someone other than the composer), rather than in a separate place, as long as links can work so that the libretto/text title shows up on the Category:[author's/authors'] page(s) and on Category:Books page.
(Maybe a separate "Category" page should be created for song texts, otherwise the Category:Books page would become unnecessarily huge and user-hostile. Possibly separate text Categories for opera, oratorio, cantata, etc.?)
Related to this, there are many opera/oratorio/cantata/song libretti online, mostly in HTML format (some in .doc or other). If these were converted to PDF, they could be uploaded as postulated above.