User:LazyStarryNights/List of compositions project

Project

Purpose

This project aims to:

• Improve lists of compositions in WP.
• Seek alignment of WP and IMSLP data where possible.

See: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Classical_music#Improving "List of compositions" articles

Done

• List of compositions by Anton Bruckner

In progress

• User:LazyStarryNights/Lists of compositions by Johannes Brahms
• User:LazyStarryNights/List of compositions by Luigi Boccherini

General

Draft guideline

• Use a sorted list of this format:

ID	Title	Key	Genre	Scored for	Composed	IMSLP	Notes

• Optimise the column widths
• Strive for a complete list of compositions, including:
  • Unfinished compositions
  • Compositions, once wrongly attributed to composer. Use strike through for these.
  • Arrangements done by composer
  • Multiple versions of compositions if exist.
• Multiple rows may be needed to:
  • Break down sets (eg song cycles, sets of quartets part of one opus, etc)
  • But should eg Mass and Opera be allowed to break down?
    • There are some examples of this around: eg Brahms Mass and Purcel operas.
  • Multiple versions or arrangements of work, can but do not need to be broken down. Break down if versions either one of different:
    • Instrumentation
    • Key
    • IMSLP link i this contains only 1 of the versions.
    • Year NOT?
    • etc?

Relevant links

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music#Improving "List of compositions" articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/Guidelines
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works
• Category:Classical music lists
• Category:Composer templates

Focus on columns

ID

Relevant links

• Talk:List of compositions by Anton Bruckner#WAB

Title

Draft guideline

• For sets:
  • Use: Two Quartets
  • Avoid: Quartets (2)
  • Avoid: 2 Quartets
  • TBD The above was based on encountered so far as most commonn in WP, but is the IMSLP format not better, see TODO
  • Use: Twenty one Hungarian Dances
  • Avoid: Twenty one Hungarian Dances
• For compositions either in or outside sets:
  • Use: Nachtwache No.1
  • Avoid: Nachtwache No.1
  • Avoid: Nachtwache I
  • Avoid: Nachtwache 1
  • But never use this for versions?

TODO

Bring the (song) Cycle naming difference WP (Brahms and Bruckner) vs IMSLP up.... Is it everywhere in WP? Why is that dif?

• Pro IMSLP way sorting on more significant item
• Schubert has similar as Brahms and Bruckner but in German
• Boccherini states: 6 Violin Sonatas from cello sonatas
• Should song cycle be a genre in itself?
• Another alternative is no count at all.

Genre

TODO

• String quartet vs Quartet...
• Piano ballad vs Ballade (classical music) see eg Brahms list
• Now working on various auxiliary members, see Category:Auxiliary members and User:LazyStarryNights/Interlude (music)

Fix links in lists so far and the IMSLP mapping list

• Jota vs Jota (music)
• Waltz vs Waltz (music)
• Balletto vs Ballet
• and see Talk:Symphony Concertante

Relevant links

• Categories:
  • Category:Music genres
  • Category:Music genre stubs
  • Category:Western classical music styles
  • Category:Musical form
  • Category:Musical forms
  • Category:Song forms
  • Category:Music by genre
• Lists:
  • List of musical forms by era
  • List of music genres
  • List of music styles
  • List of cultural and regional genres of music
  • List of musical movements
• Other:
  • Genealogy of musical genres
  • Template:Music genres
• Specific:
  • List of opera genres
  • Template:Concertos
• Discussion:
  • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music#Genres
  • User:LazyStarryNights/List of IMSLP work types
  • Talk:List of compositions by Anton Bruckner
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force
• External:
  • Alch

Scored For

Draft guideline

There are existing guidelines, but they may need to be sharpened more:

• Avoid: abbreviations, capitalization
• Use: sentence style, serial comma
• Use links for each instrument in each occurrence in the column.
• Examples:
  • Use: Soprano or tenor, piano, and cello ad lib.
  • Avoid: Soprano or Tenor, Piano, and Cello ad lib.
  • Avoid: sp/tn pn (vc)
• Instrument order:
  • TBD: Use "ad lib." where relevant at the end of the regardless of the regular order, thus:
  • Use: Soprano, Piano, and Tenor ad lib.
  • OR: Soprano, Tenor ad lib., and Piano.

• Choirs and Voices: only add extra information if not standard:
  • For a SATB choir:
    • Use: Choir.
    • Avoid: Choir (SATB)
  • For a SSAATTBB choir:
    • Use: Choir (SSAATTBB)
    • Avoid: Choir.

TODO

• What should the column names be called?
  • Forces?
  • Scoring?
  • Scored For?
  • Instrumentation?
• Should Vocal quartet or 4 Voices be used?
• Winds - same issue as with strings? Should there be a Winds section?

winds

Ordering

Ideally List of compositions articles would use consistent ordering.

The IMSLP sources suggest: Solo voices, Choirs, Other in order of scoring.

• Which order of scoring should be maintained: the standard order, or the order in the particuar work (i.e. take into account that some works have deviating order).

The WP sources suggest something similar, but not 100%, or not 100% clear:

• It extends to solo exception to other instruments - eg in concertos.
• It doesn't mention the exception for Choirs.

Which order to use?

Current proposal:

1. Solo voices
2. Choirs
3. Solo instruments
4. Other in order of standard scoring order (even if this contradicts actual sorting order).

Relevant links

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music#Improving "List of compositions" articles
• User talk:LazyStarryNights/Lists of compositions by Johannes Brahms#Scoring (proposed)
• User talk:LazyStarryNights/Lists of compositions by Johannes Brahms#Repeat linking
• Abbreviations for Instruments
• Tagging#Abbreviations for instruments
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/Guidelines#Musical forces: specifying those used in a work
• Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation

Composed

Draft guideline

• Add "c.", "?", "-", ",", or version info if needed, but keep short and arrange sorting keys if needed.
• Avoid dates, since they clutter up the list and since much is composed long time ago dates do not give that much information. For dates users can go to the composition page.

TODO

What to do with range of years in sorting... Sort on oldest (presumably completion?) Do we want to have these ranges at all or only state the latest year (presumably completion) year?

IMSLP

Relevant links

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music#Template:IMSLP3