with a repertoire ranging from Baroque to the Avant-garde

English translation: Baroque - NO to article, YES to capitalization; avantgarde - NO to capitalization

05:00 Feb 19, 2008
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English term or phrase: with a repertoire ranging from Baroque to the Avant-garde
I am having trouble figuring out whether Baroque needs an article. And whether the two should be capitalized. The sentence is from a short (page long) biography of a musician.

Thanks for your thoughts...
Anu
Anu Mukharji-Gorski
Germany
Local time: 10:31
Selected answer:Baroque - NO to article, YES to capitalization; avantgarde - NO to capitalization
Explanation:
You can capitalize the latter (some people do), but there's really no need to. Thus:

... from Baroque to the avant-garde

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Note added at 18 mins (2008-02-19 05:19:03 GMT)
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By the way, a good way of going about this is Googling the terms in question and checking out their usage (looking at reliable sources, of course). If you do that here, you'll notice that Baroque is always capped, while avant-garde isn't when used mid-sentence, etc.
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Mark Berelekhis
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Local time: 04:31
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5Baroque - NO to article, YES to capitalization; avantgarde - NO to capitalization
Mark Berelekhis
3 +2with a repertoire ranging from baroque to avant-garde
Bernhard Sulzer


  

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with a repertoire ranging from baroque to the avant-garde
Baroque - NO to article, YES to capitalization; avantgarde - NO to capitalization


Explanation:
You can capitalize the latter (some people do), but there's really no need to. Thus:

... from Baroque to the avant-garde

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 18 mins (2008-02-19 05:19:03 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

By the way, a good way of going about this is Googling the terms in question and checking out their usage (looking at reliable sources, of course). If you do that here, you'll notice that Baroque is always capped, while avant-garde isn't when used mid-sentence, etc.

Mark Berelekhis
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with a repertoire ranging from baroque to the avant-garde
with a repertoire ranging from baroque to avant-garde


Explanation:
based on what I found:

baroque can be found in small caps too (musical sources).

I also suggest to omit "the" for both (as in "baroque to avant-garde")

baroque
http://www.ashmontmusic.com/mccarty/auditions.html
for avant-garde:
http://www.classical-piano.com/

Bernhard Sulzer
United States
Local time: 04:31
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Native speaker of: German

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agree  orientalhorizon
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agree  Vicky Nash
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