User:Vaarky

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).

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. 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.

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
  • I've asked a retired classics 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
  • http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Assumpta_est_Maria needs translation clean-up
• 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 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
  • text of California's Online Privacy Protection Act, effective July 1 2004; and a summary

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 eternally in the proofing stages.

Favorite Pieces/Composers of Late

• William Mundy: esp. everything in the Latin Antiphons and Psalms book (ed. Frank Llewellyn Harrison) -- available via 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, Vadam et Circuibo