Talk:Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?

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I think it is more common to leave out the punctuation marks (here quotation mark) at the end of the cantata titles. --Mst 21:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm using the Grove dictionary as my primary source, and they include incipit-final punctuation in all cases. Most of the other secondary literature I have does the same. Microtonal ^{(Put your head on my shoulder)} 23:38, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

The book by Alfred Dürr and the (German) music publishers omit them, also the NBA (Neue Bach-Ausgabe). --Mst 08:48, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

I'll check out the Dürr tomorrow, as I haven't looked at it in years. I suppose I ought to have done before I started doing the cantatas, but I don't think I've done anything that can't be improved. I'd love a look at the new edition of Dürr, but our library doesn't have it yet (no surprise there, given that it just came out last month), and it's prohibitively expensive to the individual buyer (~$350 retail, last I saw).

The German paperback edition is slightly cheaper (~$35)... --Mst 10:09, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Frankly, this may be a language difference, in which case, I'm inclined to let the German usage take precedence in cases where Bach's own usage is in doubt. I'll spend some time concentrating on this particular issue when I get back into the library tomorrow. Microtonal...(Put your head on my shoulder) 09:06, 21 July 2005 (UTC)