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Articles I plan to write from scratch (a lot of these are single references from articles I have written, mainly in Medieval and Renaissance music). Obviously I probably won't actually write them all--others will get to some first.


Composers

Medieval

Renaissance

Expansion

  • Italian Renaissance The section on music is totally, completely wrong, and I just need to blow it up and start over. I don't even know how it got here. This won't be easy to summarize in just a few paragraphs: writing short is much more difficult than writing long.
  • Renaissance music Some day I have to take the horns by the bull and just rewrite this damn thing; it's been bugging me for six months. If anyone else is watching it, reading this, or gives a rat's ass, for heaven's sake let me know; I get the feeling I'm the only inhabitant of this deserted island of Wikipedia. It's a huge and hairy topic and isn't going to be easy to organize, because however you cut it, something gets left out, shorted, or minimized by implication. First thing to do is take the huge composers list (it will be twice as long, at least, when I am done) and break it out by nationality, school, inclination, instrument, or whatever seems to make the most sense; and Aristotlean categories and taxonomy often make no sense at all at something as absurd as dropping artists into neatly arranged bins. Oh well.
  • Jacob Clemens non Papa He was Dutch, by the way, not Flemish. Expand soon.
  • Adrian Willaert Still mostly the 1908 Catholic Encyclopedia article. While surprisingly good for the time, it still needs a rewrite. Willaert was absolutely decisive on the cross-pollination of the northern style with the Italian.
  • Cipriano de Rore Short article, doesn't capture his significance or describe his work much at all.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli needs it bad!
  • Carlo Gesualdo (needs it worse! Tiny article so far; the one on French wiki is big; surprised no one has written up this juicy thing yet)
  • Josquin Desprez needs some more on his actual music; there's a lot of information, he brought together a lot of stylistic trends, and I have to make some sense out of all of it. The Grove article is pretty rich.
  • Orlandus Lassus needs expansion/overhaul to featured article standard, as do a lot of the major figures from the Renaissance
  • Orlando Gibbons another big one with just a couple of sentences, oh my.
  • Luzzasco Luzzaschi --Was my first article; way too short for such an important and influential composer
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck --One of my first articles; still too short
  • Leonardo da Vinci Didn't know he was a musician and inventor of musical instruments, did you? Oh, by the way, do an article on the viola organista.

From scratch

Here's some minor Franco-Flemish composers of the generation after Josquin:

Printers

Baroque

  • Johann Gottfried Walther Friend of Bach, lexicographer, composer, theorist, historian.
  • Gaetano Greco (c1657-1728) Neapolitan, possible teacher of Domenico Scarlatti; certainly his keyboard works were influential on him.
  • Francesco Gasparini (1668-1727). Lucca, Bologna, Venice; possible teacher of Domenico Scarlatti.
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier --Finish. Just started 11/8/04.
  • Thomas Selle important in the history of the musical Passion; the first to use instrumental interludes; influence of Schein; can also see the incipient chorale cantata. Need to figure out how he survived the Thirty Year's War and how it affected his career, nothing in Grove about it.
  • Jacques Champion de Chambonnières I've been saving the French for another time, since in general I'm doing Italy and Germany first; but this guy is really important, being the founder of the whole French harpsichord school, one of the most distinctive styles of the whole epoch.
  • Christoph Demantius Arguably Renaissance, at least in outlook, and bizarrely underrated and almost unknown. History is neither kind nor rational.
  • Franz Tunder
  • Andreas Hammerschmidt
  • Francesco Foggia
  • Johann Froberger (nine links so far, high priority, also fix all the misspellings and disambigs)
  • Johann Fux done except for description of his music (did you know he was one of the most renowned composers of his time, and this makes him one of the most renowned composers ever to be later completely forgotten?) Perhaps write a bit on Gradus ad Parnassum too.
  • Johann Adam Reinken just a stub; the link between Scheidemann and Bach
  • Benedetto Marcello add more about his utterly hilarious 1720 pamphlet attacking abuses in opera. I have it in Strunck, probably a public domain translation.

Early American

  • Supply Belcher (anybody with a name this good has to be worth an article, don't you think?

Common practice and Romantic era

  • Hugo Wolf desperately needs fattening up; this would be a fun one to write.
  • Modest Mussorgsky --tiny article, not bad, just underfed.
  • Pietro Raimondi Fugues to end all fugues, pre-Ivesian simultaneities all with correct voice-leading, really bizarre and strange and no one has ever heard of him.

And the big area where I did the most work for my doctorate

I'm terrified of doing this, but some day perhaps. I feel it is almost impossible to do justice to the things I spent so much of my life studying. But if I get brave some day I'll do articles on the Beethoven quartets. Those are the Himalayas for a composer, and they have a way of teaching you humility, and it's a painful lesson. Apparently others have thought so too, since as of yet the most profound utterances in the history of music have mostly no articles on Wikipedia. And tomorrow I'll delete this comment as a late night gush. So be it. But damn it they ARE the Himalayas.

20th century and more recent

  • George Rochberg needs fattening up. Serialism to collage pieces to post-tonal music and what was called "neoromanticism." His wife makes good soup.
  • Peter Racine Fricker (thanks Mr. Fricker for all your help over the years)
  • Thea Musgrave
  • Witold Lutoslawski (this article is only a stub! most significant composer to be so under-represented)
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold needs a major expansion, if I ever get around to it; one of the most incredible prodigies who ever lived. Ya gotta get past the film scores; he wrote other, much better stuff.

I'm just gettin' started. Could be dozens of entries in this category. Thanks Hyacinth for doing set theory so I don't have to.

Musicologists

Theorists

  • Nicola Vicentino (need to make a diagram of his "Arcicembalo" --his microtonal keyboard. This is really hard to understand, and I bounce off of the Grove article every time I try to read it; it may be necessary to go to the original source. What would be really helpful would be to play one and see what the intervals are!) Draw it in AutoCAD--make a PNG file. Shouldn't be too hard. Explaining it is what is hard.
  • Franco of Cologne
  • Jacques of Liège
  • Pierre de la Croix
  • Johann Mattheson This is even too obscure for Grove...! but the music and rhetoric stuff is important, IMHO. Needs to be put in at some point. This one will require an actual, honest-to-god no kidding trip to a brick, mortar and carrel library, fancy that.

Instruments, Things, etc.

  • Bandoneon I have one (it was my great-grandfather's--made in, and brought from, Germany)--there was briefly a tango rage in France in the 19th century and there were a lot of the things around then. Add a bit to the article.

General Topics

  • Hauptstimme and
  • Nebenstimme (upper part and under part, the part of main importance and the main secondary part, chiefly in the music of the Second Viennese school, though they have become commonly used in contemporary music; especially useful in densely contrapuntal scores and parts)
  • Cantata. I'm working on it, on my temp page. Frankly I think it was one of Tovey's most embarrassing efforts. Don't get me wrong: Tovey was a great musicologist, but best when he was writing opinion pieces, not NPOV factual articles, and his stuff in the 1911 Britannica is rather uneven.
  • Oratorio. Found another one: Just a tiny stubby article with links; the New Grove article has 17 chapters. Expand with a "history" section; even just a few paragraphs would be good.
  • Counterpoint article needs a BIG expansion. Rules of voice-leading, 16th and 18th century counterpoint differences, and at least several paragraphs on the history of counterpoint from organum through fauxbordon and the 15th century to the polyphonic style of the 16th through Bach and through the present day. Lots of stuff. --Take a deep breath. If someone else reads this first, go for it. At least it is not as hard to do as set theory.
  • Burgundian School (Dufay, Binchois et al. Could be part of a big Renaissance music expansion, or a separate article: probably separate since Venetian school, and the soon-to-be Roman school, are so separated) (Further note to self: put links to this up in Music of France, Renaissance music, Dufay, Binchois, Busnois, Dutch school (music), Charles the Bold, Philip the Good; then post it.)
  • ballet (music) Though it's likely to be a very long time before I get around to this; it's just not a high priority for me. I did a bunch of orchestrations for a ballet company when I was in graduate school, so I do know the style intimately ...
  • Anthem (choral) (English, Protestant counterpart to the motet--e.g. Pelham Humphrey, Purcell)
  • Passion setting (From Pierre de la Rue to Schütz to J.S. Bach to Penderecki...) May be the biggest single missing article in the whole area of music prior to 1700.
  • Opera-ballet (French, French, French.)

Articles needing expansion of one kind or another

Mostly on Renaissance music for now. Laudable attempts by some to start these, and I'll fix them when I get around to it (like everything else).

All of these began entirely focused on pop, rock, folk. I have added a few sentences to Italy and France, but articles like the Netherlands are still entirely virgin for any mention of the thousand years of music history before the importation of pop styles from the U.S. Not sure how much detail belongs; really we need a larger discussion of where the major treatises on music history will be. These articles are one of the possibilities.

Antiquity

  • Hydraulis --The ancient hydraulic organ: much speculation and connecting of widely-separated, barely legible dots. Like everything in ancient music.
  • Ancient Greek Music (turn off phone, drink lots of coffee, unpack boxes of notes, all for one of the most obscure subjects on Wikipedia) Actually it's been started under Early music. Not sure whether to write there or move it. Maybe move it.
  • Delphic hymns

...and at least a hundred other extremely obscure technical terms from Ancient Greek music theory

Other stuff (non-music)

Roman literature:

English lit:

  • Coriolanus (play) One of my favorites; currently just a stub. Most people don't seem to like it but I don't share that view, to put it mildly.

California geography items, such as:

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