User:Kaitze Chua(Gwen)/Evaluate an Article

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Chamber music

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It is part of my school assignment.

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Lead Section: The beginning of the introduction has a brief and concise definition of 'Chamber music'. The overall description in the lead section is precise and not over-detailed because the various of broad key terms foreshadowed the elaboration of terms later. Basically, all of the key points and terms that were mentioned in this section have more in depth description later, but in the last paragraph of the lead section, it was all about the conversational music character in chamber music, as I suppose it will be a big part of this article however there are only two sentences description in the 'conversational paradigm' section.

Chamber music and society in the 19th century


 * 1) Content: The content is relevant to the topic but it seems a little incomplete to me. The section starts with "The middle of the 19th century..." but the title is about "19th century." Information about chamber music and society in the first half of 19th century is needed. Since it was a historical description, the 'up-to-date' consideration is not really applicable.
 * 2) Tone and Balance: I think that the content in this section was written in a neutral tone because there is neither heavily biased sentence nor claims that indicate self opinion in the section. Despite the missing information of the early 19th century, the viewpoints were well distributed and were explained in balance portions.
 * 3) Sources and Reference: I think the sources is reliable because I noticed that most of the sources are from published journals and books. I tried to click on several links and they are all working.
 * 4) Organization and Writing Quality: I would say that the section is well-written and easy to read. In the last paragraph, the last sentence can be more precise: "Shinner's quartet and Lucas quartet were two notable all-women string quartets." Each paragraph has a clear theme and the descriptions were straightforward.
 * 5) Images and media: Both of the images are closely related to the text and were able to enhance the understand of the topic. They were both well-captioned (even mentioned the painter of the image). The women performer image laid out in a visual appealing way as we can clearly see the scene of a woman leading in a chamber music performance. I think the images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulation because both images were placed into public domain since their copyright were expired.
 * 6) Talk page discussion: There is a question on the definition of chamber music. They had a discussion on the term "chamber orchestra," if it should be part of the definition but they decided not to add it into the topic because they think that it should be added in the article for 'orchestra'.
 * 7) Overall: I think it was a good article but lack of some information. I think this article has a great organization in the content and I like the conciseness of the description. Again, information about chamber music and society in the early 19th century should be added. Maybe they could also talk about how popularization of chamber music has affect chamber music's definition and the society in 19th century in the beginning, because that gives readers a prior knowledge before getting deeper into content.