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Very rough and disorganized list of articles I plan to write either from scratch, or to rework or improve, since as of this writing (late 2007) almost all the major articles exist in some form or another. It's becoming difficult to add new articles to the project, unless they are on exceedingly obscure or technical topics.

In general I try to write complete articles, not stubs, so I tend not to get around to starting articles until I have a decent source. Often Grove suffices, for music, but I like to get other specialist material.

If you are on this page wondering why I care, and thinking that this is all trivial and unimportant, do the following: 1) turn off your television, 2) turn off whatever popular music you are listening to, 3) go outside. Look up. It's big out there, isn't it? There's more to the world, and the universe, and the cultural history of the human race, than the stuff the media and the popular culture machine feeds to you. There is, but you have to be awake to it. I will do my part to see that it does not die.


Major project(s) edit

  • Renaissance music. I'm busy outlining and reading, and sometimes drafting bits in my user space. Already wrote the lede; the sections will follow when I get time, which may be limited. I don't have as much time for Wikipedia as I had several years ago.

Music, mostly old, a few things that still don't have articles edit

  • Nicolaus Craen -- good article on French wiki, some sources in Dutch
  • Scotto (printer) might be the best name for the article on the Scotto family and their firm in Venice throughout the 16th century. Ottaviano I and II, Girolamo (apparently the most important), and Melchiorre. Ottaviano II was the publisher of Arcadelt.
  • Pedro Valenzuela (Pietro Valenzola). Spanish-born director of the accademia in 1569. Madrigals. Evidently in Einstein, but I missed him
  • Manara (Ferrara, mentioned in Grove in passing; chromaticist)
  • Francesco Menta (Naples)

And now from Einstein:

  • Leonardo Barre (Venetian: student of Willaert: p.324 but use Grove)
  • Jacques Du Pont (Giaches de Ponte) Worked in Venice; covered in Einstein, briefly
  • Beltrame Feragut. Good example in Atlas; good example of early French composer who worked in Italy. The recycled motet is interesting.

Composers in CMM (not a bad place to look) that don't have articles here yet.

Various minor figures of the Roman School, especially those mentioned in Reese.

Chanson composers, 16th century:

Early:

After 1550:

1570s, contemporary with Le Jeune:

Josquin-related articles:

  • Tristitia obsedit me, the partial meditation on another psalm, (30), also by Savonarola, cut short by his execution. Set by many composers as well, right up in to the 17th century.

Composers, upgrade edit

  • Philippe Verdelot One of my earliest articles: needs correction to current state of research. Savonarola connection, sacred music, (in Reese), online Grove article. Even more interesting: Machiavelli connection, e.g. music for 1526 Florentine production of La Mandragola (in detail in McClary's book.) Actually needs a rewrite.

Other article ideas edit

Some other things I might be getting around to:

Composers within the Trent Codices. Look up to see if any of these names can be expanded, and if any biographical data is available. If there's anything on the Internet on these people it would be a miracle.

From scratch edit

Renaissance composers, unclassified:

  • Paolo Aretino
  • Pycard, also in Old Hall MS, first name not known (perhaps that was it)
  • Juan de Urrede (Johannes Urreda); composer of the famous version of the Pange Lingua hymn
  • Pietro Maria Marsolo Another Sicilian, c1580 to 1615 or later, active mainly in Ferrara, and a rather reactionary but skilled composer; he took monodic madrigals and rearranged them for four equal voices--and continuo! Strange indeed.
  • Luzzasco Luzzaschi (expansion)

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

Individual Pieces edit

  • Tenebrae Responsories (Gesualdo) Well, no one else is going to do it. Passionate, amazing, desperately expressionistic. You won't hear this stuff in an elevator. Or on the radio, for that matter.

Geography items and redlinks in History of Santa Barbara edit

That black gooey stuff I like so much edit

More local:

  • Others in Ventura and Los Angeles

Companies edit

Maybe. We'll see how much fun it is. This is supposed to be fun, after all.

  • Venoco Oil company. Mainly needs expansion and cleanup -- they're not all about fracking, media hysteria aside.

Formations edit

May want to pull the bigger ones from some of the DOGGR sections. In order from top to bottom:

Pictures of local items to snap: edit

References edit

  1. ^ "2008 Report of the state oil & gas supervisor" (PDF). Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources. California Department of Conservation. 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2010. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help) p. 108
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