User talk:Marchesa

Thanks for your latest edition

Hello Paul and thank you for you recent edition of O crux benedicta by Claudio Merulo. I've just tidied up to page to remove a bit of code which doesn't belong there and correct the links to the PDF and Finale files. Going through this, I noticed a note which you added to your user page saying that "Some scores are listed as contributed by "Paul Marchesano" but do not turn up in this search." I've just corrected the link on one score page, Hodie Beata Virgo (Peter Philips) but that is the only one that appears to link to Paul Marchesano erroneously (see here). Also, your user page User:Paul R. Marchesano says that you have contributed 125 scores but I can only find 55 (including the score I mentioned above). As this is such a large discrepency, I'm a bit concerned that there are a lot of pages which link to the wrong user page. Can you shed any light on the situation? Thanks --Bobnotts talk 21:17, 23 January 2008 (PST)

Links & Score count

I had adjusted the score count from its previous setting at 95. I had not done a count of scores. It seems that my old user account/name from CPDL before the wiki site did not transfer the contributed scores or history. When i signed up on the new wiki it seems that i had a new profile created which began linking scores from that point. I have to check my computer and all the posted scores on the site to find the discrepancies. it may be that the scores i uploaded in mid-2007 disappeared after teh crash last summer. Also, the original counter may have been counting mass movements as a score, and i assume that the current system rightly counts an entire mass with its parts as one score. i will try to work on this in the next few weeks to replace missing scores and or miscounted ones. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marchesa (talk • contribs) on 14:17, 28 January 2008.

I have uploaded some missing scores - the links to files may not be right, sorry for the confusion. Counting a Mass setting as one score, I will fix the number of scores correctly this week. Thanks for all the help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marchesa (talk • contribs) on 12:04, 29 January 2008.

Missa "Qual Donna" (Orlando di Lasso)

Hi Paul. Thanks very much for this latest addition. As is the standard on CPDL, I have combined the movements to a single page and corrected links. Thanks again. --Bobnotts talk 07:37, 24 February 2008 (PST)

Byrd's O Salutaris Hostia (a6) - 21 V 1: Natural?

Dear Paul,

Just a quick question about your edition of Byrd's superb "O salutaris hostia" (a6). I've noticed in the editions of both Warwick Edwards (for "The Byrd Edition" (Stainer and Bell, gen. ed. Philip Brett)) and David Skinner (for the Cardinall's Musick) that the inclusion of a B natural on the second beat of bar 21 in the 5th part down (in this case, Tenor II) is supported by no source evidence - neither Edwards nor Skinner includes this natural in their editions, and no mention is made by Edwards of textual variants between sources in this case.

This is a tricky one, not least since there is only one source for this voice part (London, British Library, Add. MS 31390 f. 17v) - the Baldwin partbooks (which sit in my college library [Christ Church, Oxford] only a few yards away!) lack this Tenor book, infuriatingly the only partbook missing.

How did you come by the natural yourself? I'm all for its inclusion, not just because it creates perhaps the juiciest clash of the piece(!) but also because it completes the strictness of the canon that Byrd pursues so closely in the rest of the piece (in this case the Tenor II part is the last part to imitate the Alto II and Soprano before it, both containing themselves the necessary natural). Moreover, the clash that this creates is no one-off dissonance!

I will be performing this piece with the Christ Church choir in just over a week's time, during the communion of a Eucharist (to be coupled with Byrd 4-part Mass) - the more heads turned the better!

Best wishes,

Edward Tambling 14:27, 8 June 2009 (UTC) Senior Organ Scholar, Christ Church, Oxford