User:Vaarky

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General Information

I like sight-singing Renaissance motets, as well as singing pretty much any other music.

Contact Information

E-mail: click here to send me an e-mail (available to registered users only). Emailing motets2009 a t stuy.users.panix.com or my other address also works.

If You're in the SF Bay Area

I organize occasional get-togethers for 4-8 singers to do advanced Ren motet sight-singing for fun. These are aimed at singers who can read a Ren motet correctly on the first try (alone on their part) without sounding like they're searching for the notes or getting lost; occasional fleeting errors are only human. We generally sing each piece only once. Singers are usually at the pseudo-professional or professional level; the sound varies based on who is attending and is different every time. We meet in Berkeley on a weekend afternoon or else in downtown SF on a weeknight. Each date is a separate one-time commitment.

E-mail motets2008 (at) stuy.users.panix.com and tell me about yourself if you'd like to find out more and/or get added to the invites list (I generally bring in only one new person per session, maximum, sometimes zero, though I sometimes organize a session where we have primarily new people).

CPDL Projects I'm Interested in Working On

But please feel free to race me to any of these:

  • Transferring Requested_articles into Category:Requests_by_composer
  • Gathering translations
  • Category:Unknown_nationality
  • Suggestion from Bobnotts (paraphrased for my to-do list from his talk page: help update score pages with templates.
    • familiarise myself with all the templates listed here and here
    • Review recent edits which incorporate the new templates. These are the sort of "template update" edits that would be most useful, so that scores are categorised as a cappella, or as having piano accompaniment, or in English, or by William Byrd, for example.
      • [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]
        ***Or fix pages that don't use Network.png when pointing externally but not directly to a file. These pages is a good set to start checking.
    • Where possible, convert these to instructions that can be posted to the volunteers page.
  • Anther place I've been finding clean-up tasks: Category:Pages_awaiting_cleanup
  • I haven't yet learned to create new pages for scores and composers and uploading new editions, but am reading through the documentation--several people said they're meaning to add scores, so maybe I can do this for them.
  • Rafael Ornes meant to do the following. See if I can figure it out:
    • overhaul the Requests page (merely figure out something to propose first to ensure there is agreement)
    • fix broken categories, most in Category:Unknown
      • I am unqualified--see if I can get one of the musicologists I know to volunteer
  • ChoralWiki:Privacy_policy is blank

Preparing Editions

I've started using mup from arkkra.com to transcribe editions:

  • Byrd, Alleluia, Ascendit Deus (SSATB)
  • Sheppard, Verbum Caro (SATTBB)
  • Josquin, Vultum Tuum (SATB)
  • Wert, Saule, Saule (a8)
  • Victoria, Vadam, et Circuibo (SSATTB)

I'm still in the proofing stages.

Random Music I Like Lately

  • Renaissance motets
    • William Mundy: most everything in the big book from EECM.net
    • Regis, Lux Solempsis
    • Senfl Ave Maria (SSATTB) and Mater Digna
    • White, Portio Mea
    • Lambe, Nesciens Mater and most Eton Choirbook stuff
    • Manchicourt
    • Sheppard
    • Cardoso, Aquam and also Et Egressus
    • Palestrina, Improperium Expectavit
    • Josquin, Tulerunt Dominum
    • Tallis, Loquebantur
    • Compere, Gaude Mater
    • Ashewell, M. Ave Maria
    • Finck, Quorum Praecepto Subditur
    • Willaert, Inviolata
    • Victoria, Ave Maria a 8 and Vadam et Circuibo
  • theme: flight
    • The Campers at Kitty Hawk, by Michael Dellaira (www.michaeldellaira.com)
    • Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine, by Eric Whitacre
  • Ennio Morricone music
  • Dvorak New World Symphony