Talk:Sonatas and Interludes

GA Review
This is good. It certainly passes GA. My only comment is a technical one - the sound samples have to be worked on. They didn't work for me: they triggered a download box rather than playing the sample. If you want to see / hear a possible sound sample scheme and code: check the Good Article Harry and the Potters. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 22:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review and your comments! I was using the FA Olivier Messiaen as an example of integrating audio clips within the text. Using the standard way might make the article look a bit clumsy.. I'll see what I can do, but are you sure you've got the right software installed for .ogg playback? The template (Template:Audio) is a standard one and should at least prompt you whether you want to download or open the file right away. Anyway, thanks again for passing the article :) Jashiin (talk) 08:16, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. The problem with the audio playback could be entirely at my end. I must admit I'm not up to speed on Wikipedia's multimedia options. I can hear playback audio samples on some articles. The Olivier Messiaen article samples triggers a download box for me. However, I can playback the audio samples for the FA article Symphony No. 3 (Górecki). So there is some sort of difference between the examples. Good luck. I think Sonatas and Interludes could succeed as an FA article:of course, others may disagree :-) Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 13:17, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

FA success
congratulations, Jashiin! --Wolf m corcoran (talk) 01:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) Hopefully some other Cage-related articles will follow. Jashiin (talk) 14:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Congratulations on your successful and well deserved FA. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 16:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you! :) And Happy New Year! Jashiin (talk) 20:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Noteworthy omissions
Shouldn't this article have a reception section? And isn't it sort of pointless to have a whole section to list a single edition? Brutannica (talk) 15:10, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Dead Links
The external links to the Cage database and discography are dead, and the site name is up for sale. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 21:07, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

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Description of example in Piano Preparation
I think there's something off about the description of the example in the Piano Preparation section of the article. I'm trying to make the description jibe with my copy of the score, and I don't see it. For one thing, the note identifications don't jibe with my understanding of scientific notation, since the entire right hand staff is 8va. I think all of the numbers should be one higher: D7, Gb-5 and G6. I'm going off of (what I thought was) the usual standard in which C4 is middle C, and the numbers change at C (i.e. B3 is the note immediately below C4 and the B above middle C is the last note of the "4" octave. Perhaps the original writer is just using numbers of the written pitches before 8va? I suspect so, since actual D6 and Gb-4 have no preparation at all.

But even adjusting for that, the description doesn't really jibe with the score. D6 is described as being heavily prepared, but that note (actual D7) only has a screw between strings 2 and 3, which doesn't seem at all heavily prepared compared to other notes. Gb-4 is described as lightly prepared, but that note (actual Gb-5) has essentially identical preparation as the D6 described as heavily prepared: a screw between strings 2 and 3. If the point is that the specific placement of the screw makes for vastly different degrees of preparation, then that should be made explicit. Finally, referring to "G5" is ambiguous if the author is indeed only using the numbers of the notes as notated, because the (non-8va) left hand has an actual G5 at several points while the (8va) right hand has a written G5 at several points. I assume the author must be referring the actual G5 in the left hand, since that note is indeed unprepared, and since the written G5/sounding G6 of the right hand is prepared (and with precisely the same preparation as the other notes being discussed in the example).

I think the basic idea of a description of a sample passage is fantastic, but this description either needs clarification, or outright correction. P4limpsest (talk) 19:10, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

FA sweeps—notes
The article has a few stray sentences without citations. There are also some lead issues. The lead is currently cited, but not all of it is reflected in the body contrary to MOS:LEAD. I wonder if a full list of recordings is appropriate for this article or whether it should go in some discography article. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  22:10, 6 February 2022 (UTC)