Wikipedia:Uitreiking Erasmusprijs/Concert

(This page is in English, to invite participation from other wiki projects. Feel free to make suggestions in Dutch, but they may be translated & replaced.)
The Wikipedia Concert takes place in the week around the Award Ceremony of the Erasmus Prize (25 November, 2015). During this publicly accessible concert (by a recognized orchestra/ensemble), a selection of works will be performed and recorded. The goal is that the recordings become available under a free license and can be included in Wikipedia articles.

The idea originated in the Wikimedia Netherlands project group for the Erasmus Prize, and will be investigated further by the Foundation Praemium Erasmianum and Wikimedia Netherlands. The most important question that comes to mind is whether there is an actual need for freely usable music fragments, and which topics should be illustrated by those fragments. Some conditions appear to be:

The works performed should be either out of copyright or freely licensed
The performers have to release their rights under a free license
There has to be some kind of logic in the performance to make it attractive to the visitors (a theme, story)
There should be a demonstrable need for the to-be-recorded fragments in Wikipedia

Your input on this topic would be very much welcomed, both in general and with specific suggestions.

Looking forward to your thoughts!

General suggestions[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]

Musopen.org is a crowd sourced initiative which produces free classical recordings,

Identified topics that could be illustrated with a fragment[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]

Especially looking for topics that could be illustrated with PD or freely composed fragments. For example, composers in the Public Domain, musical instruments, genres and music theory terminology such as crescendo.

Composers[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]

Wikidata query returning composers who died before 1945: [1] (opens in Autolist)

Hector Berlioz, French romantic composer - Symphonie Fantastique (youtube available)
Frederic Chopin, Polish romantic composer - Fantasy, Op. 49 (musopen available)
Camille Saint-Saëns, French romantic composer - Danse Macabre, Op. 40 (musopen available)
Fanny Mendelssohn, German romantic composer - Piano Trio, Op. 11 (Petrucci available)
Amanda Röntgen-Maier, Swedish romantic composer - one of the pieces 'for violin and piano'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian classical composer - Violin Sonata No. 26 in Bb, K. 378 (musopen available)
Anna Amalia van Brunswijk, German classical composer - Divertimento for piano, clarinet, viola and cello (youtube sometimes available?)
Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian classical composer - Sicilienne in E-flat Major (youtube available)
Joseph Haydn, Austrian classical composer - Flute Sonata in G (musopen available)
Antonio Vivaldi, Italian baroque composer - Flute Concerto in G Major, RV 435 (musopen available)
Johann Sebastian Bach, German baroque composer - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (youtube available)
Johann Sebastian Bach, German baroque composer - Brandenburg Concerto (youtube available)
Bo Ya, ancient Chinese composer - High Mountains and Flowing Water (youtube available); instruments and Western notation might be an issue.
Unknown Ming Dynasty Composer - Plum Blossom Melodies (youtube available); arrangement might be an issue
Glenn Miller, an American big band musician, arranger, composer, and band-leader in the swing era. Do you remember In the mood?
Giuseppe Verdi and especially Nabucco
Richard Wagner - the Tristan chord and the leitmotifs from Der Ring des Nibelungen

instruments[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]

genres[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]

(broad or specific)

Maybe try some Johann Strauss family, good for happy concerts, but they seems have a publisher keep republish the piece, not sure about copyright status though Yuyu (overleg) 20 aug 2015 17:42 (CEST)[reageer]

terminology[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]

Works that were written in honor of knowledge & wisdom in general or for/by encyclopedists[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]

Philip Glass, American 20th century composer - 7th symphony "A Toltec Symphony", 3rd movement, part 1 and 2. (youtube available for both) ^[1]
Georg Friedrich Händel, German-British baroque composer - Oratorio, the Triumph of Time and Truth^[2]
Heinrich Schütz, 17th century German composer - "12 Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 13"; choral piece dedicated to Wisdom
Iván Enrique Rodríguez, 21st century Puerto Rican composer - Ars, Lux et Veritas (?); Licensed CC-BY-SA-NC (non-compatible)
Ehsan Saboohi, 21st century Iranian composer - Mithra; licensed CC BY.
Christobal de Morales, Spanish Renaissance composer - Mass for St. Isidore of Seville, a 6/7th century encyclopedist.^[3]
The Yongle Emperor Opera, about the Yongle Emperor who commissions one of the greatest Chinese encyclopedias^[4]
Gustav Mahler, Austrian romantic composer - 8th symphony (youtube available). ^[5]
Julije Bajamonti, Croatian historian, encyclopedist, and composer - Simfonia B-dur (CC BY).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Genevan writer, philosopher and composer - Le devin du village (youtube available)
Hildegaard von Bingen, German philosopher, writer, and composer - Canticles of Exstasy (mostly vocal music, and CC-BY-NC-SA sheet music)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, 17th century Mexican scholar & poet & 18th century Jesuit composer Manuel de Mesa - Sonoro Clarin del Viento

other[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]

I would like to suggest "Listen to Wikipedia".
Could you elaborate why a recording of that would add value to Wikipedia articles?

I thought about this as something like an "entr'acte".

↑ The 3rd movement is dedicated to a "Blue Deer." The Blue Deer is considered the holder of the Book of Knowledge. Any man or woman who aspires to be a 'Person of Knowledge' will, through arduous training and effort, have to encounter the Blue Deer." See additional information about the symphony here. (youtube sometimes available)
↑ Perhaps somewhat knowledge-related; the libretto does have a line about learning the ways of wisdom.
↑ hard to trace down the sheet music
↑ [http://english.gov.cn/news/video/2015/07/03/content_281475139525135.htm about Yongle Emperor Opera; hard to trace down sheet music
↑ The first Choral is based on a famous poem by Rabanus Maurus, a Frankish encyclopedist from the Carolingian era.

[1] The 3rd movement is dedicated to a "Blue Deer." The Blue Deer is considered the holder of the Book of Knowledge. Any man or woman who aspires to be a 'Person of Knowledge' will, through arduous training and effort, have to encounter the Blue Deer." See additional information about the symphony here. (youtube sometimes available)

[2] Perhaps somewhat knowledge-related; the libretto does have a line about learning the ways of wisdom.

[3] rd to trace down the sheet music

[4] [http://english.gov.cn/news/video/2015/07/03/content_281475139525135.htm about Yongle Emperor Opera; hard to trace down sheet music

[5] The first Choral is based on a famous poem by Rabanus Maurus, a Frankish encyclopedist from the Carolingian era.

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