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 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.

'To "adopt" a composer, please volunteer on the talk page and add a listing to this project page for the composer you wish to adopt. If claiming an unclaimed composer, please update the pages and you can begin working on your adopted composer's page. This page will help coordinate coverage, highlighting composers available for adoption and reducing collision when multiple people embark on major revisions to the same composer's page. If multiple people volunteer for the same composer, admins may have to make a determination.

If you're doing a major overhaul rather than incremental changes:

• Please discuss any significant structural change proposed on the compuser's talk page to get community feedback. We want to avoid a situation where a well-intentioned volnnteer puts in substantive effort, but finds that other people thought the old orgnization worked better.
• If the changes require taking a temporary step back in the organization of a page while the work is in progress:
  • take a snapshot of the page and create a separate sandbox duplicate copy to work on, in order to avoid disruption of access to users
  • if users make any changes to the main page in the interim, copy those into the sandbox work-in-progress duplicate before swapping the sandbox duplicate to replace the old version

We really appreciate the hard work Adopters put into nurturing these pages. If you have questions about the adoption process, you can post you questions on the talk page - or contact an admin. 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

• Johannes Brahms - Arthur Reutenauer (16 February 2007–12 August 2009) – hopelessly romantic, just as I am: Robert Urmann (12 August 2009)
• William Byrd - Master Byrd for me - David Fraser (23 March 2006)
• William Croft - I'll take on William Croft. - Thomas F. Strode (16 July 2006)
• 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 (22 March 2006)
• Carlo Gesualdo - The prince of Venosa for me - Martin Neumann (23 August 2007)
• Edvard Grieg - Roar Kvam (10 October 2008)
• 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 (24 March 2006)
• Claudio Monteverdi – I'm currently preparing to conduct an entire program of Monteverdi, so I might as well sign up for him. Philip Legge (23 March 2006)
• Thomas Morley - Thomas Morley for me. Brian Russell (10 April 2006)
• William Mundy - My favorite composer. If you like Renaissance music and don't know him, you should! --Vaarky 06:14, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
• Palestrina - SDoonan 18:35, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
• 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 (29 June 2008}
• Henry Purcell - I'll take on the "Orpheus Britannica" as well ... John Henry Fowler (3 April 2006, 29 June 2008)
• Caleb Simper - I will adopt this neglected composer - Eby (31 July 2008)
• Charles Villiers Stanford - Wouldn't mind this Genius ! - Jeremy Jones (29 March 2006)
• Tomás Luis de Victoria - Having already worked on the Victoria page in the past, I'll be happy to adopt his page. ChuckGiffen (13 April 2006)
• 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)
• Benjamin Ipavec - He's from my hometown. Callidus 00:23, 5 December 2009 (UTC)