User talk:Jamesgibb

Posted by: Chucktalk Giffen♫ 01:32, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Help

Welcome! and thank you for all the new scores you have been posting to ChoralWiki. There is just one minor omission with what you have done: When you copy the code from the addworks form onto the works page, you are (apparently uniformly) omitting the first line ==Music files== (which is right before the line consisting of {{Legend}}). In other words, the works pages should begin with: ==Music files== {{Legend}} We can fix the pages you've already created by hand, but it would be less work for admins if you could include the missing line in the future. Thanks very much!

Page names

Hi James. Great to see all your editions appearing on here! Just one thing - please title page with just the title of the work followed by the composer name. So for all these hymns, the tune name should not be in the page title but in the page itself. Users searching for the tune will find it in the page if they search for it. I will correct the existing cases but please remember this for the future.

I would also mention capitalisation - where the title of the work is the first line of the text as it so often is for hymns, only proper nouns and the first word should be capitalised. However, you seem to be doing this already. Many thanks for all your contributions and merry Christmas! --Bobnotts talk 16:30, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi James, to correct a page name, as Rob suggested above, you don't need to create a new page (it's in fact bad because we end up with duplicate pages); all you need to do is use the "move" option on top of the page to move it to another title, ok? Thank you for all your contributions! —Carlos  13:31, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi James. As Carlos mentioned above, please don't create duplicate pages for the same edition. I've just deleted Factum est silentium (John Dering). Thanks --Bobnotts talk 12:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Masses

Hi James, thank you for this new Mass by Casciolini! For masses, it's a general standard here at CPDL to put all parts in a single page, especially when the voicing and instrumentation for all parts is identical. I've done that for the parts you already uploaded; if you intend to add new parts (as the Credo or Sanctus), please do it in the same manner. Thanks! —Carlos  16:20, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Anglican chants

Hi,

I noticed a lot of new titles of the form "Psalm n, composer in key (full name)". Are these all from one collection, to which one might refer for the pointed texts? If so, it might make sense to just call them "anthology # n, composer in key". In any case, Genre Anglican chants with a lower case c will get you a working link.

All the best, Richard Mix 23:43, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Say, Watchman, What of the Night? (Arthur Sullivan)

It's very nice to see all the Sullivan editions! I changed the accompt. to "organ", but this is a funny one, in that I cant imagine the doubling of the opening unison bits being desirable, but the seventh in the last chord of the penultimate line ("gloom") seems intentional. Are the small notes (implying rehearsal only) in your source? Btw, the bass note in m19 is missing. All the best, Richard Mix 04:30, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Titling Anglican chants

Hi James. I've been struggling to decide on the best way to title the Anglican chants that you have been adding where there is no psalm text, just the chant. These contributions are most welcome but I think your current way of titling them (particularly when including the composer surname twice) is not the best format. I've just moved one of them to Double Anglican Chant in E flat Major (Kellow John Pye). Do you think this is a good compromise? Please don't add any more chants until we've decided on a standard for titling them as moving pages can become a lot of work when there's a lot to go through! I'd appreciate your comments here or if you'd prefer to reply by email, you'll find the address on my user page. --Bobnotts talk 11:29, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Bob, I hope by replying here you will pick it up. (I find the various ways of contacting people on CPDL mildly counter-intuitive, so I may only be replying to myself!)

Sorry for the confusion I've caused with the chants without words attached. It's because that's how I've named them when I've transcribed them into Capella, since I stored them in a separate psalm folder, rather than in the respective composer folders.

Given that they can be used for more or any psalm, naming them by double/single and key seems the best way forward. Indeed, it's what I did with the one of my own that I put up very recently, since it wasn't associated with a particular psalm text in my mind.

I'll avoid adding any more with the name and a specific psalm attached. (I've got very few left anyway that wouldn't require a composer to be added as well.) If you can let me know when the editors had decided if single/double plus key is the way forward, I'll start again with the last few.

If it's not overcomplicated adjusting the existing ones, I'd be happy to help, rather than dump it on to the editors.

Just back from Italy. (You can probably plot my Italian trips from the increase in volume of submissions, since I tend to have more free time then!) However, I think most of the other stuff I have on Capella is still within copyright in the UK, which is 70 years from the composer's death. So it's just stuff that I've transcribed for learning purposes. Perhaps slightly sad singing along to a computer!Jamesgibb 17:40, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi James. You can see my request for replying to messages at the top of my talk page. I think the way I've named the Pye chat I linked to above is the best way forward. Let me know if you have any other thoughts. --Bobnotts talk 08:35, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Hymn metres

Hi James, I think it was a good idea to ask Chuck about this subject, but when in doubt you can always check here the already existing categories. Regards, —Carlos  14:53, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Textpage links

Hi, nice work with the Boyce editions! May I make plea to add them to the textpage when you use the LinkText template? If the same person doesnt do both it can easily fall through the cracks. All the best, Richard Mix 15:54, 20 March 2012 (CDT)

Dowland: His golden locks

James,

Just posted an edition of this myself (and of course looking at everyone else's to steal their good ideas), and I think perhaps yours runs into difficulty with the key-signature. Although the piece is in G (myxolidian-ish), there's no signature in the original, so I think you need to naturalise some of the F sharps that arise from putting in a key-signature. For example, the chords at bar 10 (my edition) are F major (even though the 1st 2 editions of the songbook put a rogue, excruciating F sharp in the Altus part). --DaveF 04:53, 26 April 2012 (CDT)