ChoralWiki:Adopt-A-Composer
Introduction
There are over 1,350 composer pages at CPDL. In an effort to improve the quality and information on these composer pages, CPDL has an Adopt-A-Composer program. Those composers who have already been adopted already are listed below. Yes, this is a chance to study a composer, aid in developing a that composer's web page, and help your fellow choral musician all at once! For this program we are looking for volunteers to select a composer, and add content to the composer's wiki page. While there is a great deal of flexibility in this, we ask that contributors stay with the general guidelines and organizational structures of this wiki. If you are interested in "adopting" a composer, please volunteer below. If several folks volunteer for the same composer, admins may need to assign composers. Thanks!
Content items
- List of sheet music organized by various criteria (publication date, opus, genre)
- List of complete works (choral/vocal/all)
- List of all publications/editions
- Biography
- Bibliographic information
- External links
- Recordings of interest
- images
These items do not have to be included, and other content not listed here may also be added.
Currently adopted composers
- William Byrd - Master Byrd for me - David Fraser (23 March 2006).
- William Croft - I'll take on William Croft. - Thomas F. Strode.
- Juan del Encina - Here we have such a very interesting composer of the Catholic Kings of Spain (really, the four kingdoms that became Spain). If would you mind, I want to adopt him. - Oscar Santos (22 November 2007)
- Gabriel Fauré - I am willing to clean up his page(s) - Admin
- Carlo Gesualdo - The prince of Venosa for me - Martin Neumann
- Robert Jones - Not a main interest, but I've 4/6 of his books in facsimile on my office floor, so I'll take him on. Rob Durk.
- Claudio Monteverdi – I'm currently preparing to conduct an entire program of Monteverdi, so I might as well sign up for him. Philip Legge.
- Thomas Morley - Thomas Morley for me. Brian Russell (10 April 2006).
- Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - This will give Charles Villiers Stanford some company - John Henry Fowler (31 March 2006).
- 'Michael Praetorius - I will adopt this neglected composer --Bach1685Music 05:55, 29 June 2008 (PDT)
- Henry Purcell - I'll take on the "Orpheus Britannica" as well ... John Henry Fowler (29 June 2008)
- Charles Villiers Stanford - Wouldn't mind this Genius ! - Jeremy Jones.
- Tomás Luis de Victoria - Having already worked on the Victoria page in the past, I'll be happy to adopt his page. ChuckGiffen 17:23, 13 April 2006 (PDT)
- John Wilbye - Perhaps the highest quality per pound of output of any choral composer - Steve Andrews (28 July 2007)
- Hugo Wolf - I've sung a few bits and bobs by this manic depressant so I'll take him! - Robert Nottingham (11 May 2006)