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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

  • 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 massive overhaul. Dynamite it and start over if necessary. It's always difficult when the base article was pillaged from either the 1911 Britannica or the Catholic Encyclopedia (the latter in this case) since you're fighting not only inaccuracies but a stylistic tar pit.
  • Walter Frye (just has the basics for now: while nothing is known about his life, something could be written about his music)
  • 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.
  • Antoine de Févin (fatten up)

From scratch

Printers

Baroque

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.

20th century and more recent

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

  • Joseph Kerman good teacher. Glad I never tangled with him at a conference though.

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!)
  • Franco of Cologne
  • Jacques of Liège
  • Pierre de la Croix
  • Odo of Cluny
  • Johann Mattheson This is even too obscure for Grove...! but the music and rhetoric stuff is important, IMHO. Put up a stub though. 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

  • 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.)

Articles with misleading, incorrect, messy information

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 are almost 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. I'm not sure when I'll have the energy to tackle this; or maybe the articles should just be retitled "popular music of COUNTRY."

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)
  • 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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