User talk:Schissel/Archive06

Vainberg/Weinberg
Hi, I'm planning on expanding the Vainberg/Weinberg article. Before I get going, would you mind if I moved the article to the Weinberg spelling, since it seems to be increasingly common and (according to an expert) preferable? Mark1 22:22, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Vladimir Rebikoff
Just expanded this (Meladina 23:55, 4 June 2006 (UTC))

Merci
pour le message de bienvenue ;-) ! (if JC Bach has never wrote a viola concerto, it seems to me that his brother Johann Christoph Friedrich wrote a concerto for viola and pianoforte, founded some years ago. It have been recorded by Reinhardt Goebel (see this). I think that this is a "authentic" concerto. Have you more information about it ? -- Kiwa 15:29, 30 June 2006 (UTC) (don't hesitate to correct my sentences, the English tenses pose problem to me (but not only the tenses ;-) )
 * Hello Schissel, i didn't understand why you talked to me about Viola Sonata (you said : Viola sonata stuff, yes). Stuff has so many meanings for a non-english speaker as me, i didn't understand the sentence ;-).
 * For the work of Telemann, I think that the viola concerto is really written for viola and not for others instruments. I don't know either the works for viola alta of Draeseke nor the viola alta. What's it? --Kiwa 13:08, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Pietro Domenico Paradisi
You have removed too much material from the article. A part of it was not copyrighted. I have left in the article only material added by Wikipedians, not from outside, copyrighted, sources. I have had left copyrighted material on the article because I thought that someone would be inspired to write a better biography based on the one I have (blatantly) copy/pasted. I didn't had much time back then, and afterwards I completly forgot about the article. I don't think I shall contribute to the article any time soon, so probably how the article looks now, it's likely to stay as such for a while.--RockyMM 16:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Bronsart von Schellendorff

 * Hello, may be that both is possible. But the original german surname is "Bronsart von Schellendorff" with double FF at the end. Sources are "Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels", the modern "Gotha", and also f.e. Meyer's Enzyklopädie. --Dobschütz 04:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It's done. --Dobschütz 08:41, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Sonata
Hi Schissel. Greetings to you too, fellow lover of music. Thanks for your note concerning flats and sharps at Sonata. I certainly agree that consistency is king, in the end. My hope is that a sufficient number of us will keep a watchful eye on that article. It tends to get bloated with all manner of odd assertions and style. We will need to be assertive, to keep things in trim. – Noetica 23:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Fartein Valen
I appreciate your thanks for starting the article. I have to confess that my knowledge of music theory is fairly limited, so I'm afraid that any attempts at trying to explain Valen's music might be misleading to most readers and annoying to those who know something about it. (Add to that the fact that I find dissonance, well, a little jarring). Please do not hesitate to elaborate on Valen's musical work and contributions. --Leifern 13:38, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Recently-created pages
Hi, thanks very much for your compliments - good to hear from you again! Translating articles is a relatively fun way to revise German vocab while also finding out about all these half-forgotten composers. If you're planning on expanding the Félicien-César David page, it looks like the public domain text of the 1911 Britannica might help you start the task. Regards, Defrosted 04:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I need to look this up- and this may better be part of another article but I see nothing under links to at the moment...
There's a micro-organism whose diet consists (almost) entirely of paramecium, and which is extremely effective as an eater of them. (Not speaking of the as-it-were mutant paramecium which attacks others.) Does this ring a bell? Schissel | Sound the Note! 15:03, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I think you are almost certainly thinking of Didinium. Josh

Mozart
Hi, I see you are working on Mozart PC 14, so I will leave that one alone and look at 15 and 16 instead!

Graham Grahbudd 09:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * In this edit, you changed what was actually already an ndash into a longer, more confusing ndash, which is not preferred. Just pickiness on my part, but I wanted you to know. Mak (talk)  05:10, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I think you misunderstand me. An ndash is preferred, but what you did was replace what was already visible as an ndash (–) with html code which results in the same thing, but looks more confusing in the wikitext, and wasn't necessary in the first place, since it was already an ndash, rather than a regular short dash. (–=– vs. -, if you see what I mean) Again, not a big deal, just silly to replace something which shows up the same with something which is confusing to more people. 69.19.14.15 03:03, 23 November 2006 (UTC) (User:Makemi behind an annoying firewall)
 * Yeah, they look pretty similar, I was confused at first as well. I try to use the one you can insert instead of the html code, because it's less initially confusing to newbies (it's too bad that the very first sentence of most articles is so full of markup - I suspect it puts some people off). Anyway, as for the piano concerto, according to Grove's article on von Paradis (the only source I have at the moment), Mozart wrote a piano concerto for her, and that piano concerto was probably k456. I think the emphasis is a bit different in what is currently in the article. My point is that he did write a piano concerto for her, and the only disagreement is which one. At least that's what I get from Grove. I might try to expand that article some when I've got time. Happy Thanksgiving! 69.19.14.35 15:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC) (User:Makemi behind an annoying firewall)

Kubik
OK, it wasn't a deeply researched change on my part. Gail Kubik was my wife's aunt's second husband, but I don't let it go to my head! GrahamBould 08:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Categories, large and small
I disagree with the categorisation of Frankel. To classify a composer, you need the most informative category that encompasses their work. If he had only composed film music, then the classification would be appropriate. However, filing him under film music composers misses the sheer breadth of his output. Like you, I got to know him though his "serious" music - I heard Marching Song on the radio, and was astonished that someone who could write that seemed to be forgotten.

So my suggestion, for what it's worth, is that dropping the film composer category is less damaging than limiting Frankel to just that category.

Bests

Rconroy 10:46, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Re Cello Sonata (Barber)
Good work. You have brought past the stage of a dull dictionary definition. I can't remember how I came across that page in the first place. I haven't actually listened to the work, to my knowledge; the Adagio for Strings is so good I am afraid of what his other pieces might sound like, lest his other works might be like Albinoni's works other than Adagio in G minor, inasmuch as very few people can name another piece by the composer. Rintrah 23:49, 27 December 2006 (UTC)