User talk:Schissel/Archive05a

Romanticism Category

I believe we should add composers who are both important in terms of Romanticism, and who are part of the movement generally labelled Romanticism - by all means add Richard Wagner, as he certainly is part of Romanticism, even if he later departs from it. At the moment I am working on a Romantic Poets list, to replace the current one - which has 6 names, and 4 are thrown to disambiguation pages. Not very helpful.

Since "Romantic" is used in musicology in a manner radically at odds with the rest of intellectual history, I think it better to list those composers important for Romanticism the movement in the top level category, even if there is some duplication. Particularly since the Romantic Composers list is meant to be comprehensive - listing virtually anyone who composed a work in the style by the broadest measure who left anything we still play even occasionally. Stirling Newberry 03:15, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I will run a script to key all of the names I've added to cats later (currently I've added about 200 articles to various cats over the last few days, and want to simply run the script once so that there are no errors.) Stirling Newberry 03:18, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Instead of war of the Romantics - what about "Brahmsians Versus Wagnerians". Stirling Newberry 04:56, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Brahms and Romanticism.

Remember that Romanticism has an academic streak in it that is quite large. Romantics loved classification, codification and organization. Brahms' studies into the past were more extensive, but in line with Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Beethoven's searches into past practice. More over - they all shared the Romantic trait of seeing the past as different, and valued that archaic quality.

The "unnamed second half of the 19th century"ism (called victorianism, realism and a fist full of other names), differs from the first half of the 19th century is the focus on pragmatism. The critique of the late 19th century of Romanticism (voiced by Bismarck, Wagner, Verdi among others) is that it was impractical, dreamy and incapable of fulfilling its goals by the means it had. In short, if one wanted great results, argued the late 19th century, one had to make a "Faustian" bargain, and do whatever needed to be done.

In musicology terms, Brahms is a "Romantic" because Romantic is defined as the practice from Weber to Mahler, and Brahms sits squarely in the middle of that period. Roughly speaking, the period of systematic application of voiceleading to extended tonality. Stirling Newberry 16:28, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Re: Felix Weingartner

Yeah, I noticed him in the category of Croatian musicians and was quite surprised to see him listed there. I googled quickly and found the extra information that provided the explanation. --Joy [shallot] 22:12, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Symphony 6 article

Nice start, well laid out. We need more work articles in wikipedia. Stirling Newberry 15:54, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sonata

Feel free to add some to the lists. I've really only had time to work on the 20th century solidly. Stirling Newberry 23:10, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Return of the Untagged Image project

You were kind enough to contribute to the Wikipedia:Untagged images project; I beg to draw your attention to part 2 of the project - there are about 12,000 more images in need of tagging. Any assistance you could provide would be most welcome. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

Florida government = public domain?

You created {{PD-FLGov}}; I'm curious about Florida government works being public domain. Where did you see this? A search online doesn't reveal anything. --SPUI (talk) 07:59, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'll look into it (this weekend if poss.) The image-tagging pages etc. suggested that this is generally true of images created by US gov'ts federal, state etc. within certain limits, but there may well be certain states that are exceptions. Schissel : bowl listen 14:07, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

There are only two states that release their images into the public domain: California and, I believe, Utah. All other states hold copyrights on their images. The templates you created are in error; please remove them. Thanks, – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 18:53, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

Minnesota Public Domain Images

Thanks for pointing that out about the Image:Amy klobuchar.jpg on my usertalk page. So here is what I am wondering, can we consider it fair use if the same image is on her campaign website? I'm not too familiar with what is fair use or not. Please let me know what you think. MicahMN | Talk 04:54, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm using the Template:promophoto tag now, this would be OK in the Image:Amy klobuchar.jpg instance, correct?

MicahMN | Talk 05:13, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Long time no see!

Hello, Schissel! Fancy meeting you here. It's a small Internet, I guess. Hope you're doing well. — Gwalla | Talk 02:31, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Sergei Taneyev merge?

Schissel, could you take a look at the discussion on Talk:Sergei_Taneyev and Talk:List_of_string_quartets_by_Sergei_Taneyev and see if you agree with Kelly_Martin on merging? I think the string quartet list should be kept separate, not merged, but I'm not sure how to handle disagreements on Wiki. --dcnicholls 05:39, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Edgar Allan Poe

Hi! I noticed you have previously been involved in editing this article, and it is currently being worked on to try to raise it to FA standard. If you are interested in helping improve this article once more, see here. Harro5 00:07, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Cello

Hello! I've noticed that you are a classical music lover, just like me! Thanks for compiling the List of compositions for cello and orchestra- thanks! BTW, are you a cellist? I'll be working on making entries for pieces in the list... thanks for all your dedication to Wikipedia! Flcelloguy 20:46, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Re Fuchs 4th string quartet

You beat me to the correction! The entry in Grove is ambiguous and the MDG notes are precise. DN

Harlan Ellison

I reverted your Harlan Ellison edit for reasons that I do not want to go into (but with the authority of Jimbo to back me up on it). If you have a problem with it, please contact me privately. Danny 02:08, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Question

Schissel, I noticed that you created pages for Cello sonata, List of solo cello pieces, and List of compositions for cello and piano. Aren't they are basically the same? A cello sonata is considered a solo cello piece and is usually played with piano accompaniment. Shouldn't two (or maybe all three) be merged into one list? Tell me what you think, thanks! Flcelloguy 13:44, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RfA

Oh, BTW, Schissel, would you like becoming an admin? I'm going to nominate you but wanted to make sure it was OK with you first before posting your "official" nomination- when you can "officially" accept! You've done a lot of good work and deserve it- if you wish to be nominated, just drop me a message and I'll nominate you! Thanks, Flcelloguy 13:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I'll be travelling the next couple of days, so bear with me if I take a few days to nominate you. My computer access might be limited...

I've now placed your "official" nomination on WP:RfA. Please put your "official" acceptance on and answer the candidate questions- then we'll keep our fingers crossed! Thanks again, Flcelloguy 02:45, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

I, Flcelloguy, do hereby award the first Barnstar of High Culture to Schissel for his excellent contributions to the Wikipedia articles related to classical music. Keep up the good work! Flcelloguy ^{Give me a note!} 23:30, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're following me! Or I'm following you. Or something

No sooner than I open up the Wikipedia and start doodling around do I see that not only you've been contributing, but that you're nominated for adminship!

Where on the internet aren't you? I can't escape you, aaaaaugh!

(Hopefully you do end up an admin; either way, I voted for you after looking at your history.) A Man In Black 23:17, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:41, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 04:46, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congrats! — Gwalla | Talk 21:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratumalations, schissel! A Man In Black 21:40, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User:JarlaxleArtemis

Answered on my talk page. FreplySpang (talk) 13:41, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Donna Moss Discussion

I noticed that you've edited the TWW page a couple of times. I'm a huge WW fan myself. What is your opinion on this discussion? --newsjunkie 13:50, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)