User talk:Droopop

Bienvenue sur ChoralWiki ! Nous espérons que vous contribuerez en quantité et en qualité. Vous désirerez sans doute lire les pages d'aide. Encore une fois, bienvenue et amusez-vous bien ! Claude T (talk) 19:03, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Drew. Thanks for your contributions. I'm adding MXL (compressed MusicXML) files to all editions which haven't, as such an interchange format allows users to produce rehearsal files much more easily. I hope you don't mind, if I add such files to your editions or, better, would you add yourself MXL versions of your files, exported from your music notation software. It's as easy as File/Export/MusicXML (compressed) ;-) Kind Regards, Claude. Claude T (talk) 15:34, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Claude! Of course, will get on it. Droopop (talk) 19:06, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, in name of the community. Claude T (talk) 06:00, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Gloria, Old Hall 8 (John Cooke) duplicate submission

Hi. Apparently you submitted exactly the same edition (all music files are the same), so I have commented out the second one and suggest that you delete it (or I can do it for you). Thanks for the interesting Old Hall scores! -- Charles_talk Giffen_♫ 01:38, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Erroneous use of origin as title

Dear Mr Ellis, you appear to have embarked upon a wholesale re-naming (half a dozen today and continuing) of Mag & Nuncs (evening services) as if they were the whole service, thereby obscuring the nature of the work pages involved. current, well-established, convention is to index work pages by their nature not their origin. All existing pages which indicate the source in the title follow the formula Title Origin (Composer) e.g. Deus Misereatur (Fifteenth Service) (William Byrd). Please explain why this convention is to be abandoned for an inappropriately synecdocheic form. And I note the you are not correcting the consequent broken links arising from your work-page retitlings (e.g. Mag & Nunc pages).Cjshawcj (talk) 22:24, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Sure. Firstly there is no clear convention to my eyes, some pages are a whole service, some are the mag and nunc, some are just the mag etc. so it makes sense to have these all indexed on one page. As a "service" is one piece, it makes sense to have this information all on one page rather than arbitrarily split up. Just more efficient. Thanks for drawing my attention to the broken links, though. Droopop (talk) 00:00, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Circumspice Hierusalem (William Byrd)

Hi Drew, On 17 Ma6 2023, you added the following to the William Byrd page:

*{{NoCo|Circumspice Hierusalem}} 6vv

There is no such page, and a search on "Circumspice" turns up nothing except your addtion. Could you clear up the confusion please? Thanks -- Charles_talk Giffen_♫ 18:40, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Mass propers

Hi Drew,

I'm enjoying your Jena editions. You're of course quite right about Introits, Alleluias &c being Mass propers, but I'd like instead to put them in the subcategories and save the parent category for plenary masses (or maybe that deserves its own category!) like Pentecost Gradual, Alleluia & Sequence (Henry Bird Collins) & Missa plenaria de Beata Virgine (Reginald Libert). Do you have further ideas on handling these? All the best, Richard Mix (talk) 23:58, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Richard! Thanks for your suggestion. I suppose the corollary is with settings of the Mass Ordinary - full settings are Masses, whereas individual movements not belonging to a complete setting are Mass fragments. A Plenary Mass category could be used to distinguish these, as Introits, Communions etc. are all Mass propers in their own right. Maybe the Mass propers category is therefore redundant? What do you think? Droopop (talk) 12:53, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Mass propers will always be a parent category of Introits, Graduals &c. Plenary masses in principle include the Ordinary (as in the Requiem) but if we used Category:Plenary masses for sets of Propers there would still be incomplete sets like the above Henry Bird Collins (Category:Not-quite-plena masses???). At present they're few enough of each for Mass fragments to do for browsing, I think. Richard Mix (talk)-

Thanks for your thoughts. Let's stick to Introits, Graduals etc. in that case. I'll go over my submissions in the coming days. Droopop (talk) 10:29, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Asolas Falsi Bordoni

Hi Drew, thanks for your many and high quality submissions. I would like to complete the Asola falsi bordoni. I've uploaded tone 4 + 5 today. I would highly appreciate if you could proof-read my editions. Especially for the second variant (Secondo ordine) for tone 5 I have a problem: The Cantus line of the second half is longer than all other voices by two semibreves. I solved it by simply cutting the last note for the cantus, but it sounds a bit odd and I'm really not sure. I also thought about a printing error, but the second edition displays it the same way as the first. Do you know what to do? Thanks in advance! --Smt (talk) 13:27, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for this, Stephan. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the Cantus part of the Secondo ordine tone 5 falso bordone, and your edition deals with this problem well. Bear in mind that a longa is often used to denote the end of a piece/section of a piece, rather than as a note that specific duration. I often use a fermata to indicate this - you could consider using this in your edition if you wanted to. I would query the Bassus part, however - it looks like the antepenultimate note should be an F rather than a G in the second half, but I haven't checked the source. Droopop (talk) 19:15, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your kind and quick answer! You're absolutely right about the Bassus part, I'll correct that. Smt (talk) 20:15, 9 July 2025 (UTC)