User:Hugh Beresford1997/Choose an Article

Option 1

 * Article Title
 * Music of Syria
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is a good start but for obvious reasons it has been labeled stub class. It is missing key information and is missing citations on information given in the article. It is not well written and has no media presence.
 * Sources
 * Badley, Bill and Zein al Jundi. "Europe Meets Asia". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, pp 391–395. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books.
 * Bonvin, L. (1918). On Syrian Liturgical Chant. The Musical Quarterly, 4(4), 593-603.
 * Badley, Bill and Zein al Jundi. "Europe Meets Asia". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, pp 391–395. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books.
 * Bonvin, L. (1918). On Syrian Liturgical Chant. The Musical Quarterly, 4(4), 593-603.
 * Bonvin, L. (1918). On Syrian Liturgical Chant. The Musical Quarterly, 4(4), 593-603.



Option 2

 * Article title
 * Syriac sacral music


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is semi well developed. It is rated C-class on each topic and is missing proper intext citations. There is no bibliography which renders the information near useless to the reader. There is most likely missing information as there is only one section in place for the whole topic of Syriac Sacral music which has centuries of history to it. The entire section is on the hymnody genre of Scred music. Is does not go into to much detail about the history of the influences by the surrounding cultures as much as it could.


 * Sources
 * Badley, Bill and Zein al Jundi. "Europe Meets Asia". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, pp 391–395. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books
 * Bonvin, L. (1918). On Syrian Liturgical Chant. The Musical Quarterly, 4(4), 593-603.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Muwashshah


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is important as it explores a key aspect of understanding Arabic and Syrian music which is the muwashshah poetry. However, there is minimal information given on the topic overall. The article is rated a start class and rated low importance. The sentences seem to be well cited and the bibliography is thorough which implies that what is there is trustworthy information.


 * Sources
 * Bahkali, R. A. (2018). Maqam: The mood of arabian music an exploration of the arabian musical modes for western audiences (Order No. 10814687). . (2048104909)
 * Marcus, S. L. (1992). Modulation in Arab music: Documenting oral concepts, performance rules and strategies. Ethnomusicology, 171-195.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Syriac Chant


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated important to many related articles but also rated stub class. This article has next to no information given in it. There is some form of citation but it is poorly written and speaks very little about a subject that, as I have read, has shaped much of the modern music in the middle-east. Much more work can be done on this topic.


 * Sources
 * Bonvin, L. (1918). On Syrian Liturgical Chant. The Musical Quarterly, 4(4), 593-603.
 * Touma, H. H. (1971). The Maqam Phenomenon: An Improvisation Technique in the Music of the Middle East. Ethnomusicology, 15(1), 38–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/850386

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Arabic maqam


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated C-class and of low importance. There is some good content on this wiki but not many citations. Only eleven for the entire wiki page. The citations look trustworthy. The article covers key concepts to understanding the Arabic maqam musical style. There is much room for improvement on the citations and gaps that I am sure are missing in the literature. There could be more time spent on the influence on other world musics for sure.


 * Sources
 * Bahkali, R. A. (2018). Maqam: The mood of arabian music an exploration of the arabian musical modes for western audiences (Order No. 10814687). . (2048104909).
 * Marcus, S. L. (1992). Modulation in Arab music: Documenting oral concepts, performance rules and strategies. Ethnomusicology, 171-195.
 * Touma, H. H. (1971). The Maqam Phenomenon: An Improvisation Technique in the Music of the Middle East. Ethnomusicology, 15(1), 38–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/850386