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thanks
Thank you for your work on the JCF Fischer article. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 20:45, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

References for J C Fischer article
Hey there. Thanks for responding on my talk page.

My opinion on whether or not CD liner notes can serve as a reference is that probably not. Mostly because those notes had to have sources, and ultimately those sources should be your sources. Perhaps you could try to find out those sources and list them.

In addition, perhaps Amazon might have some titles about Fischer, and you could create a section called Further Reading and list those titles.

TheRingess 23:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm not an expert, but your additions look good. I think you should remove the unreferenced template. Thanks for responding to my request for sources. Take care. TheRingess 00:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

(blush)
Thanks Jashiin, for the compliments. I'll look at Johann Pachelbel again soon. —EncMstr 17:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Gotta do it again
Sorry, there's nothing to show in Pachelbel yet. I made comments and edits about 10 hours ago, but some wayward website's flash application crashed my browser so I wasn't able to save or keep the work. Anyhow, it's always better the second time.... —EncMstr 04:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I updated Talk:Johann Pachelbel with responses, though one of them probably was better in the first, lost, edit. :-( Someone did a cleanup pass through the article; hopefully that will help.  Would you like to make the changes to the article, or should I?  —EncMstr 03:31, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Pachelbel
Dear Jashiin,

Thanks for the invitation! I had noticed that your work on the Pachelbel, Fischer, and Kerll articles put them at a much higher level than other articles for German Baroque organists. Since that work has been done, my chief contributions will probably be recordings, musical examples, and expanded bibliography.

I was planning on recording a couple organ pieces of Pachelbel's - do you have any preference for which? The Chaconne in F is covered, and I was going to do a toccata or two, but I can do more pieces (especially since most of them are quite short).

-Sesquialtera II 02:27, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

List of works by Johann Sebastian Bach
Hey, I was doing massive edits to the article today and have been planning to do more edits in the coming hours. I noticed you added some things that conflict with what I did (we were both editing at the same time), could we maybe work this out somehow? I could stop editing and let you do the things you want or you could stop editing and let me finish what I began. Jashiin 19:48, 22 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that. I thought it was weird there was no section for 'late contrapunctal works' and just started editing. If I had checked, I would have seen that you were in the middle of something. Keep going! --Leo44 (talk) 19:57, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

You're really plugging away at that list, aren't you? Good work! -Sesquialtera II 22:45, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey, maybe the caption should be "Canons and Late Contrapunctal Works", since not all of the canons were composed that late. I believe this is the usual caption for that section, but I don't dare to change it now, haha :). By the way: what source are you using? It looks like a good one. You know Dave, right? Keep up the brilliant work.--Leo44 (talk) 10:18, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Indeed, ideed. This looks great. I'm shocked to hear Dave's contains mistakes, my whole Bach-library is organized after his page! --Leo44 (talk) 10:56, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Allow me to add my voice to the solid work you have done on the Bach composition page. Outstanding job.  When are you going to tackle Haydn ;).  Eusebeus 08:16, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Well-earned. Doing my bit to remove redlinks and round out the page.  I will have the English Suites Page up in a few. I welcome any review you care to make. Eusebeus 09:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Vielen Dank'! I have removed the Italian reference since I am unsure of it, although I thought it was usually considered Italian (Allamanda, Couranta, etc...).

German organ schools translation
Looks good - I think the most valuable information is likely to be their opinion on which pieces are the most important for each composer. User:Cor anglais 16 and I have ambitious plans for the organ repertoire page, so we will probably incorporate most or all of this information - he knows French fairly well, too. Thanks! -Sesquialtera II 23:08, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Bach Sub-Article Naming Convention
Hi Jashiin, thanks for the note. Could you weigh in on the naming issue please? (see my message at Tony's page, [] and his response on my talk page. I'll set up a general query on the Bach discussion page; or you could do it in fact given the work on the list of compositions ou have done and the thoughts you may subsequently have on this matter.  Btw, on that list page, you will note the problem i am addressing is abundantly clear since the links follow no consistent naming logic at all.  Eusebeus 10:54, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

List of compositions by Dieterich Buxtehude
totally awesome. -Sesquialtera II 17:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, brilliant! Isn't it? Very useful. Thanks. So right now, my aim is to write up articles on individual cantatas of Buxtehude; starting with Membra Jesu Nostri. Bach has articles on (many) of his cantatas— although some of them seriously need work still; e.g. this one as Mr. Wessler pointed out —and I don't see why Buxtehude shouldn't!     :-)


 * I truly hope that within a year or so Wikipedia will contain articles on most or all of these cantatas (and possibly other works as well). I think that would be really cool, don't you? Anyway, Cheers! — Trisdee 20:33, 1 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh yes, I am willing — I will sacrifice my life for Buxtehude cantatas! I am just a little busy at the moment though—assistant conducting Das Rheingold here in Bangkok—so I won't be able to work on those cantatas for a while. But anyway, yes, by all means, create the category! Why ever not!
 * I appreciate your work. :–)


 * Trisdee 21:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Great! Cheers, — Trisdee 16:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
Hey, I just checked out the Johann Pachelbel article and wow... I really love those musical examples you made! The images, I mean. Those are always useful; they really help you to visualise, to understand the style et cetera much better — I think anyway. Essential stuff...

Really appreciate it :-) Trisdee 17:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Jashiin, I am glad today has been a wonderful day for you and, indeed, congratulations!!! *smiles*


 * As for the examples, I think I realise how much time it takes to create them; hence the barnstar; I reckoned you should know that your work (not only the images, of course) is appreciated. Anyway, personally, I wouldn't mind a few more images at all — I find them curiously attractive, probably due to the fact that I enjoy reading music almost as much as listening.


 * Now, about Pachelbel, I personally think that you can go into detail as much as you wish so long as NPOV is observed and the details given are not about a particular work. Wouldn't you agree? Trisdee 20:40, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Messiaen samples
Hello! Thanks for your work uploading the sample from L'Ascension. I noticed your query on the article's talk page about which bit of Livre d'orgue or Méditations to upload. I am a bit busy just now, but in a week or so I should be able to get to my scores and come up with a specific suggestion of which bit would be best - I'll let you know. As for photos - I too could probably supply a screenshots of the composer from personal recordings of the BBC's broadcasts on the composer's 80th birthday, but I am fairly sure it would be a copyright infringement. Meanwhile, keep up the good work! Best wishes, RobertG &#9836; talk 16:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I had a look as promised - can I ask for two samples, please? I think the best would be a bit of Méditation No. 3 (place it with the passage about communicable language), and a bit of Sioxante-quatre durées from Livre d'orgue to illustrate serialism.  I hope that's not asking too much!  Very best wishes,  --RobertG &#9836; talk 11:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, that was well spotted! I agree with you.  I have Jennifer Bate's recording of Méditations, but unfortunately not the technology to take a .ogg sample.  Thanks for doing Soixante-quatre durés, anyway.  Regards, RobertG &#9836; talk 17:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Welcome back!
Glad to have you back :) Check out what we've been doing in Johann Pachelbel, I daresay you might like it! You were the one who inspired me to create the images :) Jashiin 19:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Whoa!  That page looks really nice.  You have put a serious amount of work into it.  If you like, I can provide recorded examples to go with each of the score excerpts.  I'm already preparing to record 3 complete works: Fugue in C major on the midi, and two Von Himmel Hoch settings.  I'll provide more specific commentary on the Pachelbel talk page itself. -Sesquialtera II 15:08, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Goldberg Variations, Variation 12
Hi - thank you for responding so promptly to my earlier post on Dysprosia's talk page - I don't very often edit articles, so I wasn't sure whom to contact. I see what you mean now, and perhaps the best way to make clear what we both mean is to rephrase the sentence. Instead of using the term "inverted" again (it already occurs above in the description once), why not just use "contrary motion"?

It would look something like this:

[In place of this] This is a canon at the fourth (Canone alla Quarta in moto contrario) in 3/4 time, of the inverted variety: the follower moves in contrary motion to the leader. The follower appears inverted in the second bar.

[How about this] This is a canon at the fourth (Canone alla Quarta in moto contrario) in 3/4 time, of the inverted variety: the follower enters in the second bar in contrary motion to the leader.

I won't make the change myself; I see that it's more your place than mine, but I think this is clearer than what I initially wrote.

Thanks!

67.10.173.8 21:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: List of compositions by Johann Pachelbel
I made an "Unknown" section for such works, do you think you could help me out with this? (ie. I thought maybe Perreault has some sort of an explanation somewhere).
 * I'm not sure if Perreault does have an explanation. I think two of them may be educational works; and others for other purposes; perhaps you could rename the category "Miscellaneous".  There are no incipits for any of those pieces, so I can't really tell, sorry.

I was also thinking about making a separate article for a list of doubtful works (the ones marked * ), since they clutter everything up and are somewhat misleading/confusing (article: "Pachelbel composed three ricercars", list: 4 ricercars, etc). What do you think about this? Jashiin 09:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps. It would also be removing some pieces generally considered legitimate, I think, or at least well-known.  You could note in the article how the question of authorship is rather murky with Pachelbel in many pieces, and state that your discussion of his works/style includes only the works whose ascription is not questioned. &mdash;Sesquialtera II (talk) 16:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

François Roberday
Hello, thank you for your message. I noticed that some of the pages I wrote on fr:Wiki had been translated by you, and I am glad to help enhancing en:Wikipedia. Beau-frère in French is someone's sister husband, or someone's wife brother. I think it is well translated by brother-in-law, but would appreciate if you confirm it. And please feel free correcting my mistakes! Best regards. Gérard 13:00, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I wrote André Raison and Jacques Boyvin by translating my articles in french to english. Could you, please, check and correct them as needed ? Thanks Gérard 19:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I can try translating the two articles about German an French organ schools because I wrote the greater part of them, indeed, either as anonymous, or under pseudos Ratigan/Gérard. But you will have to "polish" my english which is not accurate enough :°) Even in France for the French ones, all those composers are not very well known, without speaking of good references. Gérard 20:16, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: thanks
No worries. I found the pages interesting; there are just so many early composers who are almost unknown these days. Graham talk 13:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Russian translation of Pachelbel article
(In case you didn't see the comment at my userpage.) Thanks a lot for commenting the translation! Sometimes I was in doubt about certain sentences, so please tell me when you see I'm wrong again (I mean not only this translation, but my translations of other Baroque composers articles). I've made corrections to the text. The sentence about Lutheran religious practice looks like this now: Отчасти это обусловлено лютеранской традицией пения хоралов, которое сопровождалось игрой на домашних музыкальных инструментах (вёрджинелах и клавикордах). D'you think I got your idea? If no, please explain it to me at my page. And finally, let me thank you for such incredible work that you've done: articles which contain such amounts of detailed information are very rare, even in English Wikipedia. Your work is really inspiring! ru:Abyr (talk)

Février, Balbastre and c°
Hello, Jashiin. The "Jacobins" is as religious (monastic) order. The "club des Jacobins" was a political movement whose name comes from the fact that they met in a building formerly owned by the monastic order. As for Claude Balbastre, his mentor in Paris was Jean-Philippe Rameau. Best regards. Gérard 10:48, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

JS Bach: style
Hi—Can you have a look at what I've done to the section?

Tony 08:58, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Pachelbel
R u working it up for FA candidature? Tony 07:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Can't do anything until after work deadline Monday. Let me copy-edit P. before nomination. Tony 09:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Pachelbel meets Sibelius
Hello,

I'm saddened to see that you don't frequent these parts anymore, although I certainly haven't for a while either--however, I've returned, and (finally) made some aural examples for the Pachelbel page. Upon recording the excerpt for the Toccata in C major, I discovered that four notes in my edition differ from yours--3 in m. 5 and 1 in m. 8, all in the left hand. I wonder if perhaps we could edit the score slightly to reflect the recording. I would be happy to do so if you sent me the .sib file (you would have to convert it to Sibelius 3, however, I don't have 4). Let me know, and I hope you are doing well! &mdash;Sesquialtera II (talk) 00:31, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Fair use
Hey,

It seems that fair use on WP is much more restricted than I had thought. You will probably have to remove whichever copyrighted recordings you've used (e.g. -- I don't know if there are others). See the fair use talk page; it's been quite the controversy, focused on the Bach aural examples. The argument goes something like this: since Pachelbel's scores are public domain, it is possible to make a free reproduction of them; therefore, we should not use any commercial versions of Pachelbel's music (or any other music in the public domain). Rather unfortunate if you ask me, but looks like it's the official word around here. &mdash;Sesquialtera II (talk) 18:38, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello
Hi there, I've just recently started getting into Wikipedia, it's really nice to find someone who writes so well and knows their stuff. I've recently done some work on the fugue and false relation pages, was just wondering if could get some feedback if you have the time, although i more than realise there is so much more work left to do of course... I'd really like the harmony page to be sorted out eventually, though it seems like an impossible task! Matt.kaner 23:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey thanks for your reply. I agree about the entry/episode structure some kind of chart may be a good idea; I think it would also be nice to have a short section, perhaps linking to separate article on the sort of material used in the episodes with some examples.


 * - As far as I can tell there are several definitions of counter-exposition, I have seen it used interchangeably with 'middle-entry', and I think as you described it can also denote any 're-exposition' with the keys/opening scale degrees switched around, or for example ,I've seen it used to describe 're-expositions' with the subjects and countersubjects in inversion (like in the G major fugue WTC book I). I guess the best thing to do since Grove is pretty unclear on the subject, just mention the various uses of the term, and keep basic middle-entries separate. The examples you have look great, the Pachelbel sounds like a good idea to me + I have most of the Bach WTC fugues in lilypond format, which can easily be manipulated into diagrams (like the one for false entry I created).


 * Free counterpoint isn't a fugue specific term, you're right of course ! - But it is the correct term to describe material that accompanies the subject at one point but then does not reoccur in this role again - like in the f sharp minor fugue, WTC book II beneath the answer in the exposition, - I have a couple of references for this that I can use.


 * Anyway thanks very much for your advice, there is lots left to be done but hopefully (when I get enough time) it'll end up looking ok.   Matt.kaner 16:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Pachelbel
Hey Jashiin, I take it you're quite busy/don't have much time for wikipedia at the moment, but I just thought you'd like to know that I put the Pachelbel article up for peer review, as I thought the B rating after all that hard work was a bit harsh, the comments are all very positive, and can be seen here - as you'd probably guess the main issue seems to be footnotes/citations...

best wishes Matt.kaner 00:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Fugue
Hey again - sorry to bother you Jashiin, I was just wondering - you mentioned those short Pachelbel fugues that you have in sibelius - (or even if you have a copy of the sheet music i can typeset myself) - and I've come to the point with the fugue article now that I think putting in an entire short fugue would be worthwhile - so if it's not too much trouble do you think you could upload a couple or email them or something? thanks. Matt.kaner 17:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Say Cheese


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Johann Pachelbel's portrait
''Hello, ''I noticed you've modified the talk page of Johann Pachelbel, saying that "There is at least one picture of Johann Pachelbel in existence". Do you have a solid reference for that? I've read massive amounts of information on Pachelbel and there was no mention of a portrait, and the image frequently seen on the net (this one) is very probably not of Johann - the inscription says "Johann Christoph", which isn't his name, and the year is given as 1748, 42 years after Pachelbel died. This was all actually discussed on the talk page, and we had some trouble with people adding that image (I had to insert a warning in all capital letters in the beginning of the article). Jashiin 19:35, 21 October 2007 (UTC)''


 * Oh, I'm sorry, didn't know that. I clicked a link at the bottom of the page and saw this (different image). I assumed it was him. If there actually are no known portraits of Johann Pachelbel, it would be a good thing to mention in the article. I can't imagine why biographers would leave this without a mention. :-o Wipe 20:15, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Reicha stuff
Just wanted to say, great work on adding all the stuff you did for Reicha. It's nice to see a less-known but (IMO) very good composer get his dues and stuff. Espcially considering how innovative he was, and noone knows about it, heh. Anyway...yeah. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 22:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I love feedback :) Actually, various forgotten and neglected composers/works are my speciality here, although I mostly deal with early music. Reicha caught my attention with his fugues, and it sort of developed from there. And when I found out the man was advocating microtonal and polyrhythmic music in 1803, I knew I had to write an article about him :) Jashiin 12:17, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

It's Okay for me
I understand your actions; don't worry; You've more time here than I, So you have reason. --Brunoy Anastasiya Seryozhenko 21:11, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

History of Plaid Cymru
Thank you for your comments on the peer review! Ill get started on them straight away!Drachenfyre (talk) 21:11, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Sonatas and Interludes
GA passed. Good article. I enjoyed reading it. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 22:52, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Rufinatsch headings
Hi, you're right of course - my bad. Good to see that there's increased interest for 'schöne Rufi', though... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilja.nieuwland (talk • contribs) 09:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Sheckley
I actually did a quick google search and nothing about the quote turned up except for Wikipedia and various mirror/copies. If you go to BLP,there's a quote from Jimbo that goes "There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons". That, and the editor in question who added was an anon who only did about four edits, and all but one involved the Running Man.--CyberGhostface (talk) 19:01, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm a bit bad with edit summaries sometimes. Sorry about that.--CyberGhostface (talk) 19:09, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Pachelbel-ciacona-f-excerpt.ogg)
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Improving Sonatas and Interludes
Thanks for your note at my page, Jashiin. I think the article is coming along really well. Sorry I haven't made more suggestions for you yet: I've had limited inernet access for technical reasons, and the time of year, etc. I'll do more soon. I want to see the article succeed. Keep at it!

–&thinsp; Noetica ♬♩&thinsp;Talk 00:12, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Well J, as you can see I think the article is in great shape now. There may be just a few hoops to jump yet. I'll back off for a little while, as you tinker with it. My advice: focus on whatever seems needed with the citations, rather than anything in the main text. (I'll keep an eye on that myself, if you like; but as far as I can tell it meets all relevant standards, now.)
 * I'll watch; but if you need to ask for anything specific, you're welcome at my talk page.
 * Carry on!
 * –&thinsp; Noetica ♬♩&thinsp;Talk 09:34, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Sonatas and Interludes a featured article!
Thanks for your note at my page, Jashiin. Let me be the first to congratulate you. I was happy to assist with such a well-researched article. You deserve great credit for all your fine work on it.

Let's keep in touch, yes? We might collaborate on some music editing sometime, if you want to.

–&thinsp; Noetica ♬♩&thinsp;Talk 09:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Hoax?
Greetings Jashiin! I know you as one of our very few writers on keyboard music of the 17th century and earlier. Can you check any sources you might have to see if Edouard Chantal was a real person? I smell a hoax (the bit about moving with the lover to Switzerland ... her writings being the only source ... the keys of the pieces ... the use of the word "toccata"). There was a Chantelouse who was a clavecinist of the early 17th century, covered in Gillespie's big book on keyboard music, but I can't find any other names from the time that even come close. Oh, and I can't think of a single example of a French toccata from that time ... they called their pieces "unmeasured preludes" or something similar. I put a WP:PROD on the article, but I'd love to be wrong ... but yet after four years I've busted lots of hoaxes here. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 03:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Another project
Jashiin, I presently have underway a project to provide an open content alternative to the now out of print sheet music collection, "The Church Organists' Golden Treasury," a collection of chorale preludes from the German baroque. With the widespread availability of Bach's chorales I'm focusing on the other composers: Walther, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Boehm, Schiedt, Fischer. I am organizing out-of-copyright sources now in preparation for typesetting the music using lilypond. I have a facsimile copy of the 1715 edition of Fischer's Ariadne Musica on order, am ordering a facsimile of the 19th century B&H edition Boehm's works from Masters, and have the Dover facsimile editions of Pachelbel and Buxtehude in hand. The minor composers, J.C. Bach, J.M. Bach, Kittel, Schiedt, and Zachow still pose a problem.

I'd welcome any assistance -- finding sources, typesetting music, writing introductory material. Let me know if you're interested.

The Uninvited Co., Inc. 05:08, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

French organ school
I saw your note, sorry it took me so long to respond!

I'm still editing on Wikipedia: I do administrative tasks under the (infamous, I think, sadly) name Kylu and article-writing under a different name. Thank you for your concern, however! :) JBarrett (talk) 07:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

More orphaned non-free images
I've removed Image:Valentini-canzona-a-6-d.ogg, Image:Pachelbel-gigue-D-excerpt.ogg, Image:Pachelbel-s28-gavotte-excerpt.ogg and Image:Pachelbel-singet-excerpt.ogg from their respective articles, and marked them for deletion, because they are replaceable fair use. Free versions of these files wouldn't be impossible to create - I've been working for WikiProject Free music and have found a wide variety of free music files, including organ works. Graham 87 01:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC)


 * No, any work published after 1923 in the U.S. which was copyrighted by 1978 (which includes all notable compositions), is not in the public domain and therefore a freely licensed version of it can't be created. This means the Cage Interludes can't be deleted and the works by Messiaen are safe as well. It is, AFAIK, ok to link to an external website that contains full recordings of these works, as long as the recordings were obtained legally. For examples of this, see Sequenza XI and Adagio for Strings (I just put the link to the full version of that work back). I didn't really want to nominate the images for deletion because I know how difficult it can be to find replacements. However, we are a *free content* encyclopedia, and that means we must keep use of fair use files to a minimum. There was much controversy about this issue starting here on Bach's talk page. Graham 87 13:26, 11 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Also, while I remember, the Glenn Gould files are fine because they show is interpretations of works and can obviously not be replaced. There are other artists or groups who would be good candidates for fair use sound files, like Wanda Landowska or Emil Telmányi, to pick some extreme examples. However, these fair use files cannot be used in the composers' articles. Actually, I wouldn't have any objection if you could use some of the files I nominated above in this way ... you can remove the speedy deletion notices if you do so. Graham 87 14:21, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Hexachordum Apollinis

 * Wow, thanks! Very exciting :) --Jashiin (talk) 08:58, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Pachelbel
Jashiin - I added this on my talk page, in reply to your message -

"Jashiin - go to the Pachelbel article on German Wikipedia--there you will see that there is only ONE pronunciation given--the one I substituted with the accent on the correct syllable (although German Wiki has the wrong symbol for the middle vowel, I believe). It is not just my 'opinion' on how the name is pronounced--it is how I heard it pronounced IN GERMANY during the several years I lived there (where I also, incidentally, performed several Pachelbel choral works with a German choir). Not to mention that I am of German descent and speak German fluently, so I think I have a good grasp of the subject.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to list the German pronunciation as I gave, then the (bogus) 'English' pronunciation after that, if you insist on that.

You have to realise that there are many German names that are similarly constructed--Händel (or Hendel, in English Handel), Müthel, Pisendel are some of the ones that come to mind. In German, one does not pronounce them Händel, Müthel, Pisendel, which would be totally absurd, but rather Händel, Müthel and Pisendel."

In addition, I would say that the citation or link to the fellow in the UK is suspicious, even unreliable, only because it contains largely speculation and not based on first-hand experience (when asked by the person from Hong Kong, he 'thinks' it's pronounced this way). He indeed references Duden, but I wonder if he's reading it correctly. At the very least, there should be corroboration from other sources, such as Langenscheidt or Wahrig, which are equally authoritative sources in Germany (the latter is the equivalent to Webster's).

Cbrodersen (talk) 15:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Featured articles
I noticed in your comments at Featured article candidates/The Garden of Earthly Delights that it was your first FAC review. I was impressed: your comments were perceptive and focused, you addressed the oft-neglected 'comprehensiveness' criterion, and you managed to do all of this without antagonizing the writers :) I hope to see you around WP:FAC more often - if there's anything I can do to help make that happen, please let me know. I really think you could make a difference. Maralia (talk) 15:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your compliments! I do check WP:FAC every now and then, but since my field of expertise is pretty small (some areas of classical music, a few things in other artforms), I usually refrain from commenting. The Garden is just something I'm very interested in, so I simply had to comment when I saw the nomination. But it was really nice to see your message, gave me a self-confidence boost - I'll definitely consider being a bit more active at the FAC page. Jashiin (talk) 11:23, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I second Maralia's suggestion. I was very pleased to benfit from your review, and thought the article improved substantially as a result. Also, you are content orientated and you conversational tone is engaging and far removed from the usual empty hostile objects usual on FAC. Best rgrs, Ceoil (talk) 20:01, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Kapsberger
Welcome contributions to a much needed overhaul of that article. Thanks for retaining some of my own input in the process. :) Sicilianmandolin (talk) 08:06, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Фробергер
Sofik (talk) 21:00, 9 July 2008 (UTC) На странице обсуждения биографии Фробергера была затронута тема английского путешествия. Ни в одном из известных на данный момент предисловий к программным сочинениям Фробергера не встречается упоминаний о Вестминстерском Аббатстве, хотя Англия так или иначе упоминается. Сообщение же на сайте (по ссылке JackofOz) крайне сомнительное. Частично оно уходит корнями к Маттезону (история с английским королем), но в целом очень странное (в т.ч. заявление о переходе Фробергера в католичество под влиянием Фрескобальди). С уважением, Sofik

After my own heart
Couldn't agree more with the views you express on your userpage. I have trouble listening to any music between about 1630 and 1900. I suppose I don't like classical music with a big 'C', and to listen to Bach after, say, Lassus, is for me a real come down. If I had to say why I enjoy Renaissance and contemporary music best, it's because it's less predictable: the best of it doesn't wear out in the ear the way, say, a Beethoven symphony does. qp10qp (talk) 15:02, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I have the same exact problem with classical music.. except that the dates for me are more like 1700-1900 - there was some very nice organ music made in the late 17th century. Its always good to hear from another person who has similar tastes, and I also have to thank you for mentioning Miff Mole on your userpage - I found a few pieces online and really enjoyed them. Given the number of Google hits I don't think I would ever hear about the guy if it weren't for you, so thanks very much! --Jashiin (talk) 21:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

WP:PipeOrgan needs you!
Hi everyone.

In case you haven't spotted it, Pipe organ is a featured article candidate. If any of you can lend a hand to address the concerns, the WikiProject PipeOrgan would be indebted to you. The article itself is in pretty good shape, there are some concerns about the referencing at the moment, so if you have any reliable sources that may be useful, please have a look at the article.

Many thanks, –MDCollins (talk) 00:49, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Freeman Etudes
I removed some edits by a banned user; I semiprotected because this user has a habit of returning to targets. I'll unprotect before too long. NawlinWiki (talk) 12:50, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Bach
Thanks for your comments at Bach. These accusations of combativeness were starting to get to me.  Azure Fury  (talk | contribs) 18:58, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Gigault
Nice stuff! Great job clearing it up. Ectuohy (talk) 22:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: Language templates
Yes it's true, for example my screen reader JAWS will use those tags to automatically detect languages and will switch to them when appropriate. But I wouldn't have used them as much as the editor did - if you move in and out of languages quickly like that, it's hard to get used to the sound of the voice. Maybe I'd have used it for the article title, and any lengthy text in Spanish, but that's about it. The English do have their own pronunciations for things as well. Template:Lang is quite well-used and I think is mentioned at Accessibility.

Re: the link lengthening, I'll post about this on the user's talk page. It's not necessary, and in fact I believe that wiki-markup should be as simple as possible. apples reads as "apples" on my end. Graham 87 08:24, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Leslie Durrell
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Noam Sheriff
Hi Jashiin, I sew your name on the list of the wikipedia project on Composers. I wanted to know if their is a possibility that you can help me translate the entry on the composer noam sheriff in Russian. He is a very knowen composer around the world. Thank you very much, Rachel —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahler1234 (talk • contribs) 11:24, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Jasiin, I'm not sure if I understand what you meant... Anyway, if I understood right, the information I got is personally from the composer himself. Maybe later on I'll add more information on his works, but it will take time. The information given there is correct. Thank you for your help, Rachel  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahler1234 (talk • contribs) 22:40, 21 November 2008 (UTC)