User:Antandrus/To do list

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.

Yes, it's hideously organized. If you want anal-retentive, you've come to the wrong place (by the way, does that have a hyphen or not?) You should see my garden. Weeds are beautiful. And I love Rabelais.

Contents
1 Composers

1.1 Medieval
1.2 Plainchant and monophonic sacred music
1.3 The Ars Nova
1.4 Ars subtilior
1.5 Manuscript sources

1.5.1 Organum
1.5.2 Gothic period
1.5.3 France
1.5.4 Italy
1.5.5 England

1.6 Renaissance
1.7 From scratch

1.7.1 Printers
1.7.2 Baroque
1.7.3 Early American
1.7.4 Common practice and Romantic era
1.7.5 Pieces
1.7.6 And the big area where I did the most work for my doctorate
1.7.7 20th century and more recent

1.8 Musicologists
1.9 Theorists
1.10 Treatises, etc
1.11 Instruments, Things, etc.
1.12 General Topics

1.12.1 Random stuff as I notice it
1.12.2 Articles needing expansion of one kind or another
1.12.3 Various, including 20th-21st century

1.13 Antiquity
1.14 Other stuff (non-music)

Composers

Medieval

Plainchant and monophonic sacred music

The Ars Nova

Ars subtilior

Manuscript sources

Organum

Gothic period

France

Italy

England

Renaissance

Expansion

General note: on all of these topics, check the other language wikis for PD images. Italian, German, French especially have some pretty capable people working in these topics.

  • Jacob Obrecht: update biography based on recent Grove; lots of new stuff. Easy, and do soon (5/2/05)
  • 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. I have a very rough draft starting on my /temp page, but frankly it sucks; I'm going to rewrite it sometime when I'm running on more cylinders.
  • Northern Renaissance Needs a music section; this was the actual focus of the Renaissance in music. Just a paragraph on the Franco-Flemish would do, for now.
  • 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.
  • Chanson -- One of the fattest articles in Grove is just a couple of paragraphs here. Needs a huge expansion.
  • Gilles Binchois is shamefully short; get around to it someday soon.
  • Jacob Clemens non Papa He was Dutch, by the way, not Flemish. Expand soon.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli Done in part.
  • Antonio de Cabezón
  • 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. Note, there is a vastly updated biography in the 2001 Grove: all the assumptions about him being in Milan in the 1470s have been overturned. He was probably in France the whole time, and may have been born as late as 1455. Most likely his first trip to Italy was in the 1480s. I will have to update everything I wrote about the Milan Sforza chapel in the 1470s as a result--quite a lot of articles. Oh well.
  • Orlandus Lassus Almost done, but still needs perhaps a paragraph on his influence, and/or a comparison/contrast with Palestrina and Victoria. He'll probably be my biggest composer article to date.
  • 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. Somewhere I need to write an article about the Ferrara group of the 1580s and 1590s.
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck --My second article on Wikipedia. Revisit for format, style, and to add additional information.
  • 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.
  • Adriano Banchieri not quite done yet.

From scratch

Renaissance composers, unclassified:

  • Francesco Corteccia, predominant Florentine composer of mid 16th century (main composer to Cosimo de' Medici)
  • Gasparo Alberti Not the Alberti bass guy, but the Renaissance composer, one of the first to use polychoral techniques, and not in Venice either--in Bergamo.
  • 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.
  • Antonio Il Verso Sicilian polyphonist, student of Vinci, central figure of the underrepresented, underrated, forgotten, and generally neglected Sicilian school
  • Pietro Vinci Sicilian polyphonist and madrigalist, teacher of Il Verso
  • Heinrich Finck Another one I missed; just added to the list. Active in Poland late 15th c.
  • Hermann Finck his great-nephew.
  • Jean Cordier in Milan in 1470s with Compere, Weerbeke, Martini, etc.
  • Paul Hofhaimer
  • Juan del Encina
  • Hans Buchner
  • Jacobus Barbireau in the Chigi codex; fine composer, not much output
  • Johannes Regis in the Chigi codex
  • Clément Janequin another important one; do him, Le Jeune, Sermisy in a group. Someone started him, but it's just a stublet.
  • Ludwig Senfl
  • Leonhard Kleber
  • Claudin de Sermisy even more French than Mouton in his sacred music, avoiding the dense northern style; Mouton was his colleague at the court of Louis XII. Really important composer of chansons, one of the most glaring redlinks on Wikipedia, though I'm sure no one else notices or cares.
  • Johann Walter
  • Juan Bermudo
  • Diego Ortiz
  • Girolamo Cavazzoni
  • Jacobus de Kerle Netherlander: one of the last of this school
  • Peter Philips Considered by some to be a Netherlander because he worked there, but took pains to retain his English identity
  • John Wilbye One of the most embarrassing redlinks in the whole area.
  • Thomas Weelkes (great, great composer, but "noted and famed for a comon drunckard and notorious swearer & blasphemer..." kind of like lots of graduate students I knew)

Requiem composers (and minor polyphonists of the 16th century)

English composers, the ones whose music survived in part the destruction wrought by Henry VIII:

Ferrara group (that itself might merit an article)

Situation there: flourishing madrigal tradition, with increasing emphasis on instrumental music and even monody; avant-garde and experimental, and obviously secular. Gesualdo was there for a bit. That 1591 collection of madrigals Giardino de' musici ferraresi had music by 21 composers (need a damned recording!) When Ferrara was annexed to the Papal States in 1598, it became a center of theatre (figure that one out!)

The musique mesurée, Pléiade, Baïf, that whole movement:

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

Printers

Baroque

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau Really needs expansion, a better works list, and everything else.
  • Antonio Vivaldi It's a horrible mess, and full of nonsense. Fix soon, probably with a total rewrite, using Selfridge-Fields, Grove, and Bukofzer.
  • Antonio Cesti Expand; too short for such an important composer
  • 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.
  • Franz Tunder
  • 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

  • First New England School But I bet someone will beat me to it; there's a surprising (and pleasing!) number of people interested in this stuff here

Common practice and Romantic era

Pieces

There is a huge unwritten area of Wikipedia: the pieces in the standard repertory. I was shocked (5/7/05) to discover that there was, for example, no article for the Brahms Symphony No. 1, one of the sturdiest war-horses in musical history. Was I surprised, though? Well, no: shock and surprise are two different things, and instead of writing a rant, I'll begin a list:

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

  • Johannes de Muris Most widely distributed, read, and probably influential music theorist between 1200 and 1500. And damned hard to get a grip on.
  • Vicente Lusitano Important; amazingly, there was a well-written paragraph already.
  • Jacques of Liège
  • Johannes de Grocheo
  • 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.
  • Giovanni Spataro Damned interesting guy. Totally different biographies in the 1980 and 2001 Groves. Yeah, I feel like Kafka's Hungerkünstler sometimes, but this is fun.
  • Andreas Werckmeister Developed a system of tuning (well temperament) widely in use in the 18th century. No, the Well-Tempered Clavier was NOT written with equal temperament in mind.

Treatises, etc

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.
  • viola organista Invention by Leonardo da Vinci: a bowed string instrument that can be played from a keyboard. Utterly unique in music history; it was not really possible to do this until the advent of sampling technology.
  • arcicembalo Need to make a diagram of this thing. 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.
  • arciorgano This is getting close to the obscurity Schwarzchild radius of musicology. Beyond which it is all black.

General Topics

  • Orchestration Needs a damned big expansion, with a full history. This is a huge topic. I did teach this class for a couple years. Time to stop avoiding my major areas of expertise...
  • Arrangement Needs a history of arrangement section, and perhaps some examples of how-to, i.e. piano figurations to string playing, etc.
  • Instrumentation may be fine as it is, with a major redirect to Orchestration.
  • Date articles (e.g. 1450, 1451, etc.) I have added birthdates from 1400 up to 1560 and death dates up to about 1460; work forward, then go back to the Medieval era later. This is a great task for when I'm feeling uncreative but have some time. Also I can go to the categories birth-by-year and death-by-year to add other names (besides composers)
  • Magnificat The article starts well, with the Vulgate and KJV, but I can add a lot about the music history here. Medieval monophonic, Dufay, the great English examples so different from the continental, the 16th century styles (it was the most often set biblical text before 1600), Palestrina, the 40 by Morales and the 100 by Lassus, the magnificent pair by Monteverdi, then the Schütz, the Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart's K 339, and more recently the Hovhanness and Penderecki.
  • Lamentations The various settings of this marvelously inspiring biblical text, from the Middle ages (are there any? have to look), through the rich Renaissance era, forward. The 16th century was particularly amazing: Tallis, Morales, Palestrina, Lassus, many more. Unique stuff: melismas on the Hebrew letters that start the sections, the astringent chromaticism in Tallis, etc.
  • Miserere, its musical history would be interesting indeed. Original research alert, LOL. I might even have to go to some other (i.e. not in my house) sources.
  • villancico Spanish popular music form, same importance to Renaissance music that the chanson had in France or the madrigal in Italy
  • villotta Light Italian form
  • organum desperately needs expansion.
  • 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 extended analytical work, 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.)
  • Liber Usualis What, no Catholics here? The biggest, best edited, and formerly most common collection of chant ever compiled. I hear they're getting to be hard to find.
  • discant huge topic; also need to write clausula)

Random stuff as I notice it

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.

  • Music of France
  • Music of Belgium I think the big history of the Franco-Flemish should actually be here.
  • Music of Germany
  • Music of Italy
  • Music of the Netherlands (Note--I'm not sure this should even be here, since the "Netherlands" as it is today does not include even the majority of the area from which the Franco-Flemish composers originated)
    • Late middle ages--the first Netherlanders
    • the Burgundians: political stability, wealth, development of culture, refugees from elsewhere
    • the Franco-Flemish; went south, much in demand elsewhere in Europe; birth of printing aided in diffusion of style, as did unification under Charles V
    • Sweelinck, later polyphonists and Baroque
    • Relative quiescence of 18th, 19th centuries
  • Music of Sweden
  • Music of Spain
    • two thousand years of music history: start with Isidore of Seville (done--fine)
    • music of Moors all lost, but possibly influences some cantigas (more? look in Gleason for ideas)
    • Renaissance, diffusion of Franco-Netherlandish style, Holy Roman Empire connection (begun--add instrumental)
    • zarzuela; Baroque a pale imitation of foreign models (begun)
    • late 19th century nationalism; revival of a strong tradition of art music (not begun yet)
  • Music of Poland write some about that magnificent court at Krakow in the 16th and early 17th c, from the time Finck studied there until Francesca Caccini's opera was played in Poland.

Various, including 20th-21st century

These to match the existing List of solo cello pieces, and which will provide useful redlinks for future expansion. They also keep me out of trouble when I'm not quite up to writing expository prose:

I'm not going to do piano, organ, etc. for reasons obvious to anyone who has more than a casual acquaintance with non-pop music.

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:

Medieval punishments:

  • Riding the stang (I have an excellent book on old-time punishments, which makes for fascinating reading; it's public domain, so I can scan images, and write up a very interesting article on this)
  • Brank Fatten it up; lots of juicy details can be added
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