Talk:Magnificat (Vaughan Williams)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because Vaughan Williams is a major composer and this significant composition of his has not had a separate article up to now. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 17:16, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. There's no reason this should be deleted - it's a work by a major composer, and that alone should confer notability. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 17:18, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, I removed the tag for now. I agree RVW is a major composer, but I'm not sure it follows that all his compositions deserve individual pages: for example, most of the BWV doesn't have more than a mention on List_of_compositions_by_Johann_Sebastian_Bach. Sorry for the WP:SPEEDY suggestion, it was hasty and unjustified.FourViolas (talk) 17:29, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Trying again
In accordance with WP:AAGF, I'm very sorry for jumping to conclusions.

I'm thinking what I should have done was add a "no footnotes" template and request that somebody with access to a music library hunt down a paper, or liner or program notes, for the sake of WP:Notability and WP:Verifiability. So I'm hereby doing that.

A Google Scholar search pulls up lots of things I can't access and one thesis on some of his other works which describes the 1932 Magnificat (among other works) as "extensively researched" (p. 31). If you have JSTOR access, try this survey of treble-solo magnificats. The official title seems to be "Magnificat for contralto solo, chorus of women and orchestra" and is/was published by Oxford University Press. FourViolas (talk) 03:37, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I will continue to add what I can to this article as time goes along, but I will happily see others pitch in also. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 17:01, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Vaughan Williams vs. Williams
His last name is Vaughan Williams; Vaughan is not his middle name. Please revert this edit. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 20:26, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

✅ DBaK (talk) 22:59, 5 November 2014 (UTC)