User:Vaarky
General Information
I like sight-singing Renaissance motets, as well as singing pretty much any other music.
Contact Information
E-mail: motets2008 a t stuy.users.panix.com
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 working on moving translations from the St. Ann's page of translations: St. Ann's translations
- I've asked a retired c/lassics professor I know if he can provide some Latin-to-English translations for pieces missing that information as listed at Category:Text_and_translations_requests
- I've tried to help out with some of the clean-up tasks listed at Category:Pages_awaiting_cleanup
- I haven't yet learned to create new pages for scores and composers and uploading new editions.
Once I do, there are several people who have editions that I'd like to offer help to
- 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 the Unknown category
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
- 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
- The Campers at Kitty Hawk, by Michael Dellaira (www.michaeldellaira.com)
- Ennio Morricone music
- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKlxyoPNaFI
- The Ecstacy of Gold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3u3fTG70Q
- Nella Fantasia by Celtic Woman
- Dvorak New World Symphony