What does it mean when a song title has a parenthesis?

Often, of course, parentheses are added simply to extend a single thought. That’s the case with Jackie Wilson’s 1967 hit “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” or the Beach Boys’ 1964 “When I Grow Up (To Be a Man).”

Do song titles get parentheses?

In general, you should italicize the titles of long works, like books, movies, or record albums. Use quotation marks for the titles of shorter pieces of work: poems, articles, book chapters, songs, T.V. episodes, etc.

What punctuation is used for song titles?

Typically, album titles are italicized, just like book titles, journal titles, or movie titles. Song titles are enclosed in quotation marks, as is often the case with poem titles, book chapter titles, or article titles.

Do you italicize artist names?

Titles of paintings, drawings, photographs, statues, and other works of art are italicized, whether the titles are original, added by someone other than the artist, or translated. The names of works of antiquity (whose creators are often unknown) are usually set in roman.

How do you quote a song title and artist?

Song titles are always surrounded by quotation marks, like *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye,” or “A Whole New World” from Disney’s Aladdin.

Should you capitalize every word in a song title?

The first word and last word in the song’s title should always be capitalized. This is true even for words that would not be capitalized if they were located elsewhere in the song title.

What does it mean when there are two chords with a slash?

In music, especially modern popular music, a slash chord or slashed chord, also compound chord, is a chord whose bass note or inversion is indicated by the addition of a slash and the letter of the bass note after the root note letter. It does not indicate “or”. Some chords may not otherwise be notated, such as A♭/A.