User:Camembert
I was a music student before dropping out for reasons far too boring to relate (it wasn't because I was failing, honest). Still, I seem to have retained a certain amount of mainly useless knowledge and my present line of work (co-running Audible Records - "a thousand records you don't want under one roof!") allows me to look like I'm working when I'm really changing things here. I have fringe interests around anarchism, mycology and some other things.
I've lost track of all the pages I've started or contributed substantially to, but here are some things I hope to do in the future.
Articles needing more work:
- Definition of music
- John Cage (think about splitting pieces into their own pages)
- Samuel Beckett and its various links
- Theatre of the absurd (check capitalisation, also absurdism)
- Gustav Mahler (adding an overview of his music, possibly then individual pages about each piece)
- Anton Webern (as Mahler)
- Arnold Schoenberg (eek)
- Alban Berg
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Bela Bartok
- All the history of music pages (baroque music, classical music era & c.)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, who knows how many other 1911 composer pages
- Transposing instrument is a very useful page if given a bit of rewriting and if it has links pointing to it ("a trumpet is a transposing instrument and so on)
- Harold Pinter
- Alfred Jarry
- Musical instrument classification
- Psychoacoustics
- Gamelan
- Timpani
- Serialism
- Musical tuning - "Temperament"
- Make Mathematics of the Western music scale into a good intro to the tuning pages (and probably rename it to something else as well).
- Bow and François Tourte
- Lulu (opera) - palindrome, sound sample, mirror point, series (plural, and over zealous analysis), multiple parts played by same singers
Things to think about looking into, digging notes up about, and substantially starting:
- kabuki, gagaku, Mbuti, pygmy, dodecaphony, whatever - bring in tone row), Otomo Yoshihide, Merzbow, Mego, experimental music (how to define, think of the Cage piece in Silence), Diabelli Variations, Robert Riskin, Gidon Kremer, Max Stirner, La Monte Young, bassoon, Tiny Tim, Harvey Milk, Zbigniew Libera, and, my god, there's no article on singing!
Articles OK for the moment, but which could take expansion when I'm bored (most of these were probably started or significantly expanded by me, so I feel a kind of responsibility towards them): Glenn Gould, Henry Cowell, Goldberg Variations, Alfred Deller, John Dowland, Pierre Schaeffer, Viol da gamba, Jean Baptiste Lully, fugue, sonata form, violin, Mauricio Kagel, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, musicology/ethnomusicology, Second Viennese School, Harry Partch (time to dust off Genesis of a Music), David Tudor, Pitch (music), Morton Feldman, Basho, Bitonality, Derek Bailey, Binary form, Ternary form, Sonata form, Conlon Nancarrow, Pythagorean tuning, lots of others, I'm sure
At some point: MIDI and MIDI composition look like the same article. Look into how to arrange mbira dzavadzimu and mbira (all on one page? a page for each type of mbira? all under dzavadzimu?).
For a nice big project one weekend: turn my essay on Olivier Messiaen's "Premiére communion de la Vierge" into an encyclopaedia article (probably needs a background article on the Vingt Regards as a whole for it to work).