User:Opus33/sandbox

This is my sandbox, used to work on drafts and to store material for future editing. My sandbox is not part of the real Wikipedia and you read it at your peril. :=)

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Draft: Fix the lead paragraph for Constanze

Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart (née Weber; 5 January 1762 – 6 March 1842) was a Austrian singer. She is remembered primarily as the patient and supportive wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who (from the evidence of his letters) loved her deeply. After the shock of Mozart's sudden death in 1791, she emerged from despair to become an effective businesswoman, working to support her family. In this capacity, she played an important role in preserving Mozart's legacy by supervising the posthumous publication of his compositions. On the negative side, she is thought by many modern historians [ xxx Wolff Hallowell Eisen to have create a false, too pathetic, biographical picture of her husband, which she did for understandable financial reasons.

Draft: Genre

As with other genres of Western art music, the label attached to "Adelaide" has not always been the same. For instance, on the title page, the work is called a cantata (German Kantate). The work was also included in Deutsche Grammophon's collection of Beethoven's solo music in the volume labeled Lieder, implying that its genre is described by the singular of this work, namely "Lied". The latter word basically means just "song," but over time it acquired a specialist meaning, "German art song performed by a vocal soloist with (usually) piano accompaniment". The latter meaning became more prominent after Beethoven's lifetime, as what we now call the "lieder canon" expanded with the work of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, and other composers. But in Beethoven's day, the lied genre was not a firm concept yet, and so his songs could appear under different labels. Whojee Whatsee explains as follows:

While today Adelaide is found in the Lieder und Gesänge volume of Beethoven's complete works and is colloquially considered to be a German lied, across the nineteenth century its generic identity was far less clear. Beethoven referred to the work as a 'cantata'; other labels soon emerged in editions and reviews, including Gesang, ballade, romance, elegy, and lied, and often the work was published with no generic designation whatsoever.

The genre "cantata," given by Beethoven (or perhaps, his publisher) has also evolved in usage: the rediscovery of Bach's extraordinary series of cantatas, which took place after Beethoven's time, led to a widespread sense that the canonical sense of "cantata" denotes a work, usually with orchestra, chorus, and vocal soloists; and written in several movements. The Italian word says little in itself, meaning simply "work that is sung". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Opus33 (talk • contribs) 20:47, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Fix when things have calmed down a bit

Haydn and folk music -- massive unexplained deletions, Sept. 1, 2024
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‎ -- editor is confused about verb tenses, Sept. 15, 2024
On top of old smokey -- explain what Kuwohi is Sept. 21, 2024
Pop culture stuff on Moonlight Sonata, Sept. 22, 2024
Restore greed as blot on Haydn's character; longstanding
Confluences, put back the Gallery

In progress

To do

Repair
- Masonry and Magic Flute: mention it, but don't allow the total garbage stuff
- Mozart's composition method: K. 309, channel Konrad and quote the letter
- Urtext edition: Rosen, web guy for editor-created error
Books you are mining
- Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
- Jones 2009a The Life of Haydn
- Jones 2009b Oxford composer companions: Haydn
- Heartz Haydn Mozart Beethoven -- see pencil marks, there are helpful ones
- Stafford, Mozart Myths
- Wolff, Mozart at the Gateway to his Fortune

Haydn
- The missing bio section: 2nd visit to London

Mozart
- Replace the plagiarized section. This should be high priority.
- Read it through and fix things.
- Where did people say his operas are difficult? Deutsch p. 315, the Emperor felt this way.

Gottfried van Swieten
- Haydn wanted to switch librettists for his next oratorio, The Last Judgment
- His symphony performed in the Augarten.
- His taking care of Mozart's kids after their father died. To what extent? Did he renege?

Shape note and Sacred Harp
- See if you can find:
  - O'Brien, James Patrick. 1969. An Experimental Study of the Use of Shape Notes in Developing Sight Singing. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder. a followup on Kyme, perhaps providing balance.
- All those unfinished satellite articles.
- R. L. Vaughan is unhappy about history and should receive a response.

Emanuel Schikaneder
- 1789: His secret depravity in Regensburg and possibly covert departure. His reply to the censuring masons. See the book about the published MF libretto for this.
- His skill as singer

Bartolomeo Cristofori and fortepiano
- Go back to Pollens and use it to source things more thoroughly.
- Pollens seems to think that Maffei's diagram was accurate for the time
- Write an article on the piano before Cristofori. Difficult to title it without committing POV! Source: Pollens's book.
- Cristofori was part of the Prince's crew of musicians, it would appear - Pollens

Double variation
- add incipits?
- Find and read Sisman's book on the topic.

article on Rondo variations?
- e.g. as in Haydn's Gypsy Rondo trio
- There are quite a few of these, I think.

Links to Neue Mozart Ausgabe

"The basic instructions are at {{NMA}}. In this case, I obtained the volume and page numbers for the scores and the critical reports by a) expanding the list for "Serie IV Orchesterwerke" at NMA; b) opening the scores and critical reports for numbers 62 & 63 (Tänze · Band 1 & 2); c) navigating to their respective title page: the page number is then shown in the browser's address box." -- From Michael Bednarek, 10 March 2009

Other

User:Opus33/Luchese stuff Bleah.