User:Antandrus/To do list

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Very rough list of articles I plan to write either from scratch, or to rework or improve, since as of this writing (late 2007) almost all the major articles exist in some form or another.

In general I try to write complete articles, not stubs, so I tend not to get around to starting articles until I have a decent source. Often Grove suffices, for music, but I like to get other specialist material.

If you are on this page wondering why I care, and thinking that this is all trivial and unimportant, do the following: 1) turn off your television, 2) turn off whatever popular music you are listening to, 3) go outside. Look up. It's big out there, isn't it? There's more to the world, and the universe, and the cultural history of the human race, than the stuff the media and the popular culture machine feeds to you. There is, but you have to be awake to it. I will do my part to see that it does not die.


[edit] Most current

What I'm probably working on relatively soon.

Cleanup: A group of related editors, most likely a class project (I'm guessing Union University in Tennessee from a handful of IPs) edited the articles of a lot of the first rank of High Renaissance composers, except for the very most famous, in the last week, adding a lot of good material, but too many cites (three or four per sentence??) as well as some stylistic problems and some factual errors.

There may be others; not every composer is on my watch list.

  • Madrigal (music). Big project: it's rather a hard one to tackle, but this could be a huge article, and what we have is tiny. Einstein has three heavy volumes on the Italian madrigal alone (brilliantly written, by the way). We have more information on obscure weapons from GoonScape or World of Borecrap than we do on the most popular and influential secular musical form of the entire 16th century.

Composers I find as I work my way through material on the madrigal (don't forget to add them to List of Renaissance composers (most of these in the 1980 Grove article):

And now from Einstein:

  • Alfonso dalla Viola V1 p. 300ff (Ferrara)
  • Giacomo Fogliano V1 p. 297ff (Modena)
  • Domenico Ferrabosco V1 p. 307-310 (connection with Galilei)
  • Leonardo Barre (Venetian: student of Willaert: p.324 but use Grove)
  • Antonino Barges (Venetian: student of Willaert: p.324 but use Grove)
  • Girolamo Parabosco (Venetian: student of Willaert: p.324 but use Grove)
  • Perissone Cambio Venetian; p. 438-444
  • Francesco Portinaro Padua; V1 p. 471
  • Jacques Du Pont (Giaches de Ponte) Worked in Venice; covered in Einstein, briefly
  • Gioseppe Caimo (possibly Giuseppe Caimo; check Grove) (p 599 ff)
  • Girolamo Conversi (pp. 598-599)
  • Giovanni Priuli (Venetian School: transitional, and wrote madrigals in all the different transitional styles around 1610, from unaccompanied equal voices to concertato; see Grove, Madrigal, vol 11 p. 474)


  • Music of Milan -- hugely important place in music history; has nothing yet for the period before 1700.
  • Chanson -- next big project
  • Beltrame Feragut. Good example in Atlas; good example of early French composer who worked in Italy. The recycled motet is interesting.
  • Motet-chanson. This is a problem: one source (Sherr, and to some extent Grove) defines it one way, relating it to the Milanese chapel: but Honey Meconi's book convincingly describes it as a much wider phenomenon, including Binchois, Ockeghem, and Pierre de La Rue as composers. I will have to rewrite the article, citing everything. The confusion may begin with Wolfgang Stephan in 1937 who described a "song-motet" as distinguished from "Motetten-Chanson."
  • Finish adding works list to Carlo Gesualdo -- instrumental and sacred.
  • Jacques Moderne
  • Renaissance music printing: Cover Petrucci, Antico, Attaignant, Phalèse; moveable type/multiple impression vs. wood block; impact on distribution of music and formation of international musical styles; promotion of cities like Venice to international centers of music. Or leave this topic for Mike's class, since I can't get to everything ... and it's kind of an interesting one.
  • Alexander Agricola. Yeah, I wrote it myself, long ago, but entropy, attrition, and miscellaneous mangling made their mark.

[edit] Composers, from scratch

Composers in CMM (not a bad place to look) that don't have articles here yet.

  • Benedetto Pallavicino

There are plenty more. Go here for list.

  • Henry Bredemers (none of his music has survived, but he was an important teacher)

Various minor figures of the Roman School, especially those mentioned in Reese.

Chanson composers, 16th century:

Early:

  • Pierre Cadéac, Pierre Clereau, Jean Conseil, Jean Courtois (composer), Garnier (composer), Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin, Jacotin, Guillaume Le Heurteur, Mittantier, Rogier Pathie, Jean Rousée, Mathieu Sohier, Pierre Vermont, Pernot Vermont

After 1550:

  • Nicolas de Bussy, Entraigues, Didier Leschenet, Thomas Champion, Pagnier

1570s, contemporary with Le Jeune:

  • Guillaume Boni, Fabrice Marin Caietain, Denis Caignet, Jean de Castro, Jehan de Maletty, Jean Planson

[edit] Other stuff

  • mass -- the section on Medieval/Renaissance. It will not be too long: instead I'll reference the reader to parody, paraphrase, cantus firmus, cyclic mass, etc. (Still needs some more fattening up)
  • cantus firmus mass -- also known as the tenor mass (with some slight nomenclature difficulties -- but look up tenor mass in Grove; Rob Wegman has an excellent write-up)
  • Motet -- could be huge. Way too much to think about at the moment.

[edit] Josquin

  • Josquin des Prez; remaining to be done: pick through that last chapter in Sherr on symbolism; write something about the NJE; give it a careful copyedit/proofread, or talk someone else into doing it).

Josquin-related articles:

    • Missa L'homme armé sexti toni
    • Missa De beata Virgine
    • Missa Gaudeamus
    • Missa Ave maris stella
    • Missa Fortuna desperata
    • Missa Malheur me bat
    • Missa ad fugam (now appears it may not be by Josquin ... that would certainly explain its odd crudities)
    • Missa Sine nomine (Josquin)
    • Nymphes des bois
    • Faulte d'argent ("The problem with money." He wakes up in bed with her, and realizes he doesn't have enough money to pay her. Yes, indeedy, they even did that then.)
    • Inviolata, integra
    • In principio erat Verbum
    • De profundis (Josquin)
  • Tristitia obsedit me, the partial meditation on another psalm, (30), also by Savonarola, cut short by his execution. Set by many composers as well, right up in to the 17th century.

[edit] Composers, upgrade

  • Philippe Verdelot One of my earliest articles: needs correction to current state of research. Savonarola connection, sacred music, (in Reese), online Grove article. Even more interesting: Machiavelli connection, e.g. music for 1526 Florentine production of La Mandragola (in detail in McClary's book.) Actually needs a rewrite.

[edit] Other article ideas

  • Music of the quattrocento
  • Music of the Medici court
  • Polychoral music of the Renaissance (or just split off "polychoral" again)
  • Renaissance music printing

Some other things I might be getting around to:

  • Jacob Clemens non Papa -- needs more on the music.
  • Pierre Attaingnant at least start these; the printers. No one else is going to do them. (What??? someone started this today? Impressive!.)
  • Pierre Phalèse Likewise.
  • Giustiniana. A subtype of villanella, with lyrics about old men who visit prostitutes and stammer a lot. I'm not making this up. Might need to get my hands on some better reference material (i.e. musicological journals) than I have in my house.
  • Categories: make school-specific categories for composers of the ars nova, ars subtilior, Roman School, Venetian school, English madrigal school, etc, and populate them.
  • Burgundian School Refine, fix, finish; preferably add a couple musical examples as well.
  • Antoine Busnois. Another article that needs update based on fairly current research into his life, and re-attribution of anonymous compositions.
  • Fill in more redlinks in the Renaissance composers list.
  • Orlande de Lassus Add, fix, finish. It's basically done except it could use inline cites, and maybe a conclusion or influence paragraph.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria. Strong candidate for rewrite and update to current standards. How about a musical example or two? And did I write this ... "one of his finest, most beautiful, and most refined works" -- wow, that was one of my first contributions to Wikipedia. It's absolutely true, of course, but it ain't exactly a diamond-studded example of WP:NPOV. Heh.

[edit] The Ars Nova (French and Italian)

Standardise the names, and make sure there are no duplications in the article space (not necessarily a trivial task). Probably use "da Firenze", i.e. the Italian form, for the trecento since most of them are that way already -- note that Grove doesn't do it this way.

  • Vincenzo da Rimini another, mid-century, shadowy; six pieces have survived with reliable attribution; in the Squarcialupi Codex
  • caccia No, it's not a composer, but just to be confusing I'm listing it here.

[edit] Ars subtilior

[edit] Quattrocento

Much of this needs to be researched; it's a difficult time, if one is focusing on Italians.

  • Antonius de Leno (unrelated to Jay) obscure theorist of early 15th century Italy; might be hard to make this one comprehensible to a non-specialist
  • Leonardo Giustiniani (d 1446)
  • Pietrobono of Ferrara (Pietrobono de Burzellis) (1417-97) ("one of the most important musicians in Italy in the 15th century" (Grove) --darn. And he's a redlink.)
  • Serafino Aquilano (1466-1500)
  • Johannes Franchois de Gemblaco (Netherlander, prob went to Italy; Grove) (one of the earliest to use imitation extensively, infl by Ciconia)
  • Bartolomeo Brolo (from Reese p. 30) (1430-40?)
  • Randulfo Romano (from Reese p 30)
  • Domenico da Ferrara (ibid)

[edit] Manuscript sources

[edit] Organum

[edit] Gothic period

[edit] France

[edit] Italy

  • Medici Codex early 16th c I think, without looking it up
  • Mancini Codex 1410, contains Zacara's weirder stuff; also known as the Lucca Codex (that's where it is; has pieces by Bartolino da Padova (12), Zacara da Teramo (12), Ciconia (9), Landini (8), Antonello da Caserta (7), Antonius de Civitate Austrie (3) ).

Composers within the Trent Codices. Look up to see if any of these names can be expanded, and if any biographical data is available. If there's anything on the Internet on these people it would be a miracle.

[edit] England

  • Old St. Andrews Music Book
  • Egerton Manuscript

[edit] Renaissance

[edit] Expansion

General note: on all of these topics, check the other language wikis for PD images. Italian, German, French especially have some pretty capable people working in these topics.

  • Jacob Obrecht: update biography based on recent Grove; lots of new stuff. Easy, and do soon (5/2/05)
  • Northern Renaissance Needs a music section; this was the actual focus of the Renaissance in music. Just a paragraph on the Franco-Flemish would do, for now.
  • Renaissance music Some day I have to take the horns by the bull and just rewrite this damn thing; it's been bugging me for six months. If anyone else is watching it, reading this, or gives a rat's ass, for heaven's sake let me know; I get the feeling I'm the only inhabitant of this deserted island of Wikipedia. It's a huge and hairy topic and isn't going to be easy to organize, because however you cut it, something gets left out, shorted, or minimized by implication. First thing to do is take the huge composers list (it will be twice as long, at least, when I am done) and break it out by nationality, school, inclination, instrument, or whatever seems to make the most sense; and Aristotlean categories and taxonomy often make no sense at all at something as absurd as dropping artists into neatly arranged bins. Oh well.
  • Chanson -- One of the fattest articles in Grove is just a couple of paragraphs here. Needs a huge expansion.
  • Gilles Binchois is shamefully short; get around to it someday soon.
  • Jacob Clemens non Papa He was Dutch, by the way, not Flemish. Expand soon.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli Done in part.
  • Antonio de Cabezón
  • Orlandus Lassus Almost done, but still needs perhaps a paragraph on his influence, and/or a comparison/contrast with Palestrina and Victoria. He'll probably be my biggest composer article to date. Also need to ref and cite; this was just before I started doing this rigorously.
  • Luzzasco Luzzaschi --Was my first article; way too short for such an important and influential composer. Somewhere I need to write an article about the Ferrara group of the 1580s and 1590s.
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck --My second article on Wikipedia. Revisit for format, style, and to add additional information.
  • Adriano Banchieri not quite done yet.
  • Music of Venice currently has nothing at all about the Venetian School

[edit] From scratch

Renaissance composers, unclassified:

  • Reginald Liebert (French/Burgundian, early 15th c.)
  • Paolo Aretino
  • Pycard, also in Old Hall MS, first name not known (perhaps that was it)
  • Juan de Urrede (Johannes Urreda); composer of the famous version of the Pange Lingua hymn
  • Gasparo Alberti Not the Alberti bass guy, but the Renaissance composer, one of the first to use polychoral techniques, and not in Venice either--in Bergamo.
  • Pietro Maria Marsolo Another Sicilian, c1580 to 1615 or later, active mainly in Ferrara, and a rather reactionary but skilled composer; he took monodic madrigals and rearranged them for four equal voices--and continuo! Strange indeed.
  • Antonio Il Verso Sicilian polyphonist, student of Vinci, central figure of the underrepresented, underrated, forgotten, and generally neglected Sicilian school
  • Pietro Vinci Sicilian polyphonist and madrigalist, teacher of Il Verso
  • Heinrich Finck Another one I missed; just added to the list. Active in Poland late 15th c.
  • Hermann Finck his great-nephew.
  • Jean Cordier in Milan in 1470s with Compere, Weerbeke, Martini, etc. Might be difficult since there is nothing in Grove; I guess there's at least one Ph.D. dissertation still possible on this period.
  • Juan del Encina (1911; needs rewrite)
  • Hans Buchner
  • Johann Walter
  • Juan Bermudo
  • Diego Ortiz
  • Girolamo Cavazzoni

Requiem composers (and minor polyphonists of the 16th century)

  • Girolamo Belli Never heard of him, but he has the adjacent article in Grove, so what the hell.

English composers, the ones whose music survived in part the destruction wrought by Henry VIII:

Ferrara group (that itself might merit an article)

  • Late 15th c.:
    • Jachetto da Marvilla (may not be enough info for an article; shame)
  • And the 16th c:
  • Singers (late 16th c.):

Here's some minor Franco-Flemish composers of the generation after Josquin:

[edit] Printers

  • Pierre Attaingnant
  • Adrian Le Roy and Ballard, next, the founders of Le Roy & Ballard
  • Robert Ballard (printer) don't forget to make a disambig page or note
  • Pierre Phalèse
  • Andrea Antico competitor of Petrucci, Rome and later Venice
  • Jacques Moderne, second printer in France (Attaingnant was the first)

[edit] Baroque

  • Giovanni Legrenzi Partially expanded; not done yet; use Selfridge-Field
  • Michael Praetorius Shamefully short; how the heck did I ever miss it?
  • Antonio Vivaldi It's a horrible mess, and full of nonsense. Fix soon, probably with a total rewrite, using Selfridge-Fields, Grove, and Bukofzer.
  • Antonio Cesti Expand; too short for such an important composer
  • Johann Gottfried Walther Friend of Bach, lexicographer, composer, theorist, historian.
  • Gaetano Greco (c1657-1728) Neapolitan, possible teacher of Domenico Scarlatti; certainly his keyboard works were influential on him.
  • Francesco Gasparini (1668-1727). Lucca, Bologna, Venice; possible teacher of Domenico Scarlatti.
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier --Finish. Just started 11/8/04.
  • Thomas Selle important in the history of the musical Passion; the first to use instrumental interludes; influence of Schein; can also see the incipient chorale cantata. Need to figure out how he survived the Thirty Year's War and how it affected his career, nothing in Grove about it.
  • Jacques Champion de Chambonnières I've been saving the French for another time, since in general I'm doing Italy and Germany first; but this guy is really important, being the founder of the whole French harpsichord school, one of the most distinctive styles of the whole epoch.
  • Franz Tunder
  • Francesco Foggia
  • Johann Froberger (nine links so far, high priority, also fix all the misspellings and disambigs)
  • Johann Fux done except for description of his music (did you know he was one of the most renowned composers of his time, and this makes him one of the most renowned composers ever to be later completely forgotten?) Perhaps write a bit on Gradus ad Parnassum too.
  • Johann Adam Reinken just a stub; the link between Scheidemann and Bach
  • Benedetto Marcello add more about his utterly hilarious 1720 pamphlet attacking abuses in opera. I have it in Strunck, probably a public domain translation.
  • François Couperin I'm going to take this on if no one else does. The article is too short. I love his music; his titles alone send me into ecstasies. How can anyone not like a composer who titles a short keyboard piece "Old Gallants and the Faded Wives of Treasurers (in purple and yellow-brown dominoes)" ("Les Vieux Galans et les trésorieres suranées (sous des Dominos pourpres et feuilles mortes)"). I've borrowed so much from this guy in my own compositional career I'm embarrassed to admit it.

[edit] Early American

  • First New England School But I bet someone will beat me to it; there's a surprising (and pleasing!) number of people interested in this stuff here


[edit] Individual Pieces

  • Tenebrae Responsories (Gesualdo) Well, no one else is going to do it. Passionate, amazing, desperately expressionistic. You won't hear this stuff in an elevator. Or on the radio, for that matter.


[edit] Musicologists

[edit] Theorists

  • Johannes de Muris Most widely distributed, read, and probably influential music theorist between 1200 and 1500. And damned hard to get a grip on.
  • Vicente Lusitano Important; amazingly, there was a well-written paragraph already.
  • Jacques of Liège
  • Johannes de Grocheo
  • Johann Mattheson This is even too obscure for Grove...! but the music and rhetoric stuff is important, IMHO. Needs to be put in at some point. This one will require an actual, honest-to-god no kidding trip to a brick, mortar and carrel library, fancy that.
  • Giovanni Spataro Damned interesting guy. Totally different biographies in the 1980 and 2001 Groves. Yeah, I feel like Kafka's Hungerkünstler sometimes, but this is fun.
  • Andreas Werckmeister Developed a system of tuning (well temperament) widely in use in the 18th century. No, the Well-Tempered Clavier was NOT written with equal temperament in mind.
  • Silvestro Ganassi, or Silvestro di Ganassi dal Fontego; the most important writer on instrumental playing and technique of the 16th century. Can't believe I missed him. (But then I'd never heard of him until this afternoon either.) I stumbled over the great article on him on the German Wikipedia.

[edit] Treatises, etc

[edit] Instruments, Things, etc.

  • Bandoneon I have one (it was my great-grandfather's--made in, and brought from, Germany)--there was briefly a tango rage in France in the 19th century and there were a lot of the things around then. Add a bit to the article.
  • viola organista Invention by Leonardo da Vinci: a bowed string instrument that can be played from a keyboard. Utterly unique in music history; it was not really possible to do this until the advent of sampling technology.
  • archicembalo Need to make a diagram of this thing; the article has been started. What would be really helpful would be to play one and see what the intervals are!) Draw it in AutoCAD--make a PNG file. Shouldn't be too hard. Explaining it is what is hard.
  • arciorgano This is getting close to the obscurity Schwarzchild radius of musicology. Beyond which it is all black.

[edit] General Topics

  • Fauxbourdon Not a redlink any more, but needs a lot of history. I did add a good musical example, from Dufay's Ave Maris Stella.
  • Orchestration Needs a damned big expansion, with a full history. This is a huge topic. I did teach this class for a couple years. Time to stop avoiding my major areas of expertise...
  • Arrangement Needs a history of arrangement section, and perhaps some examples of how-to, i.e. piano figurations to string playing, etc.
  • Instrumentation may be fine as it is, with a major redirect to Orchestration.
  • Date articles (e.g. 1450, 1451, etc.) I have added birthdates from 1400 up to 1560 and death dates up to about 1460; work forward, then go back to the Medieval era later. This is a great task for when I'm feeling uncreative but have some time. Also I can go to the categories birth-by-year and death-by-year to add other names (besides composers)
  • Magnificat The article starts well, with the Vulgate and KJV, but I can add a lot about the music history here. Medieval monophonic, Dufay, the great English examples so different from the continental, the 16th century styles (it was the most often set biblical text before 1600), Palestrina, the 40 by Morales and the 100 by Lassus, the magnificent pair by Monteverdi, then the Schütz, the Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart's K 339, and more recently the Hovhanness and Penderecki.
  • Lamentations The various settings of this marvelously inspiring biblical text, from the Middle ages (are there any? have to look), through the rich Renaissance era, forward. The 16th century was particularly amazing: Tallis, Morales, Palestrina, Lassus, many more. Unique stuff: melismas on the Hebrew letters that start the sections, the astringent chromaticism in Tallis, etc.
  • Miserere, its musical history would be interesting indeed. Original research alert, LOL. I might even have to go to some other (i.e. not in my house) sources.
  • villancico Spanish popular music form, same importance to Renaissance music that the chanson had in France or the madrigal in Italy
  • villotta Light Italian form
  • organum desperately needs expansion.
  • Hauptstimme and
  • Nebenstimme (upper part and under part, the part of main importance and the main secondary part, chiefly in the music of the Second Viennese school, though they have become commonly used in contemporary music; especially useful in densely contrapuntal scores and parts)
  • Cantata. I'm working on it, on my temp page. Frankly I think it was one of Tovey's most embarrassing efforts. Don't get me wrong: Tovey was a great musicologist, but best when he was writing extended analytical work, and his stuff in the 1911 Britannica is rather uneven.
  • Oratorio. Found another one: Just a tiny stubby article with links; the New Grove article has 17 chapters. Expand with a "history" section; even just a few paragraphs would be good.
  • Counterpoint article needs a BIG expansion. Rules of voice-leading, 16th and 18th century counterpoint differences, and at least several paragraphs on the history of counterpoint from organum through fauxbordon and the 15th century to the polyphonic style of the 16th through Bach and through the present day. Lots of stuff. --Take a deep breath. If someone else reads this first, go for it. At least it is not as hard to do as set theory.
  • Burgundian School (Dufay, Binchois et al. Could be part of a big Renaissance music expansion, or a separate article: probably separate since Venetian school, and the soon-to-be Roman school, are so separated) (Further note to self: put links to this up in Music of France, Renaissance music, Dufay, Binchois, Busnois, Dutch school (music), Charles the Bold, Philip the Good; then post it.)
  • ballet (music) Though it's likely to be a very long time before I get around to this; it's just not a high priority for me. I did a bunch of orchestrations for a ballet company when I was in graduate school, so I do know the style intimately ...
  • Marian antiphon Biggie Renaissance topic. Ideally have musical examples for all four.
  • litany Write a new section on its music history.
  • ballet de cour (another one I ought to do, now that I'm concentrating on the period on either side of 1600)
  • musique mesurée (make clear the similarities--really interesting--to the activities of the Florentine Camerata, and I don't think they all met in a chat room every night)
  • ayre
  • rhythmic mode (even after all these years this stuff is still damned hard to understand)
  • virelai fatten up a little more; decent start has been made
  • rondeau add formes-fixe significance, bit more about late medieval use
  • ballade add formes-fixe significance, bit about late medieval use
  • Ambrosian Chant (OLD!! possibly going back to 4th century, but no one can prove it)
  • Gallican Chant
  • Mozarabic Chant (survived because the Muslims in Spain were so much more tolerant than the...um....)
  • St. Martial School of organum
  • clausula turn off the redirect which is WRONG and write an article on the medieval form.
  • Magnus Liber
  • cyclic form (need to expand someday)
  • ground bass (passamezzo antico, Romanesca, aria of the Grand Duke, Ruggiero, Folia, etc.) Need to add musical examples.
  • cantus firmus (lots of links to this; needs to be greatly expanded and improved)
  • canzona (it's almost done if I ever get around to putting it up)
  • sonata da camera
  • chorale setting big hazy area; Germanic mainly; much organ, but not all; draft started, but can be bigger (add composers!)
  • Anthem (choral) (English, Protestant counterpart to the motet--e.g. Pelham Humphrey, Purcell)
  • Passion setting (From Pierre de la Rue to Schütz to J.S. Bach to Penderecki...) May be the biggest single missing article in the whole area of music prior to 1700.
  • Opera-ballet (French, French, French.)
  • Liber Usualis What, no Catholics here? The biggest, best edited, and formerly most common collection of chant ever compiled. I hear they're getting to be hard to find.
  • discant huge topic; also need to write clausula)

[edit] Random stuff as I notice it

[edit] Articles needing expansion of one kind or another

Mostly on Renaissance music for now. Laudable attempts by some to start these, and I'll fix them when I get around to it (like everything else).

All of these began entirely focused on pop, rock, folk. I have added a few sentences to Italy and France, but articles like the Netherlands are still entirely virgin for any mention of the thousand years of music history before the importation of pop styles from the U.S. Not sure how much detail belongs; really we need a larger discussion of where the major treatises on music history will be. These articles are one of the possibilities.

  • Music of France
  • Music of Belgium make a mention of the Franco-Flemish school, but don't write it here.
  • Music of Germany
  • Music of Italy Still needs something about the hundreds of years of history before it was invaded by U.S. exported pop styles.
  • Music of the Netherlands (Note--I'm not sure this should even be here, since the "Netherlands" as it is today does not include even the majority of the area from which the Franco-Flemish composers originated)
    • Late middle ages--the first Netherlanders
    • the Burgundians: political stability, wealth, development of culture, refugees from elsewhere
    • the Franco-Flemish; went south, much in demand elsewhere in Europe; birth of printing aided in diffusion of style, as did unification under Charles V
    • Sweelinck, later polyphonists and Baroque
    • Relative quiescence of 18th, 19th centuries
  • Music of Sweden
  • Music of Spain
    • two thousand years of music history: start with Isidore of Seville (done--fine)
    • music of Moors all lost, but possibly influences some cantigas (more? look in Gleason for ideas)
    • Renaissance, diffusion of Franco-Netherlandish style, Holy Roman Empire connection (begun--add instrumental)
    • zarzuela; Baroque a pale imitation of foreign models (begun)
    • late 19th century nationalism; revival of a strong tradition of art music (not begun yet)
  • Music of Poland write some about that magnificent court at Kraków in the 16th and early 17th centuries, from the time Finck studied there until Francesca Caccini's opera was played in Poland.

[edit] Other stuff (non-music)

  • Wildcat well (use Colorado geologic survey site as a source == [1])

[edit] California geography items, such as:

Others maybe, if I'm not sick of it by then. The ones in Los Angeles County would be interesting to do; there's some public domain pictures.

[edit] Companies

Maybe. We'll see how much fun it is. This is supposed to be fun, after all.

  • Plains Exploration and Production (PXP)

[edit] Pictures of local items to snap:

[edit] Places within easy day-trip range with no photographs at all