CZ:Music Workgroup

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High priority articles

This list is adapted from the Music Portal on the English Wikipedia [1] and the "List of articles every Wikipedia should have" [2]. Feel free to add to it (or subtract).

Genres, locations, and periods

1. Classical music, Classical, Western classical music, Concert music.
   1. Musical genre's
      1. Art song
      2. Ballet (music)
      3. Chamber music
      4. Concerto
      5. Opera
         1. French opera
         2. German opera
         3. Italian opera
         4. Russian opera
      6. Symphony
   2. Musical development by century.
      1. Eighteenth-century music
      2. Nineteenth-century music
      3. Twentieth-century music
   3. Musical style periods
      1. Medieval music
      2. Renaissance music
      3. Baroque music
         1. Early baroque music
         2. Late baroque music
      4. Classical-era music
         1. Rococo (music)
         2. Post-baroque music
      5. Romantic music
         1. Early romantic music
         2. Late romantic music
            1. Post-romantic music
      6. Modernist music
         1. Early modernist music
            1. Impressionism (music)
            2. Futurism (music)
            3. Neo-romantic music
            4. Neo-classical music
            5. Neo-baroque music
            6. Expressionism (music), Dodekafonie
         2. Late modernist music
            1. Musique Concrète
            2. Serialist music
            3. Microtonal music
            4. Aleatoric music
            5. Minimalist music
            6. Spectral music
            7. Post-modernist music
   4. Trancendial and shifting musical concepts
      1. Contemporary classical music
      2. Avant-garde music
2. Non-western/Folk
   1. Music of Africa
   2. Folk music
   3. Gamelan
   4. Indian classical
3. Popular/historical
   1. Blues
   2. Jazz
   3. Reggae
4. Popular/Contemporary
   1. Pop music
   2. Rhythm and blues
      1. Soul
      2. Hip hop and Rap
   3. Rock and roll
      1. Heavy metal
      2. Progressive rock
5. Other
   1. Electronic

Composers and musicians

Classical

Important to cover not only life and reception but also musical style and important points of development.

1. Johann Sebastian Bach
2. Johannes Brahms
3. Ludwig van Beethoven
4. Frédéric Chopin
5. Gustav Mahler
6. Claudio Monteverdi
7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
8. Igor Stravinsky
9. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
10. Giuseppe Verdi
11. Antonio Vivaldi
12. Richard Wagner

Popular

1. The Beatles
2. Irving Berlin
3. James Brown
4. Ray Charles
5. Chuck D
6. Bob Dylan
7. Pink Floyd
8. Aretha Franklin
9. Quincy Jones
10. Elvis Presley
11. Frank Sinatra
12. Gil Scott-Heron
13. Stevie Wonder

Musical instruments

In addition to range, materials, etc., important to cover history and repertoire. This is just a partial list--just about every instrument is high priority

1. Banjo
2. Cello
3. Clarinet
4. Percussion
5. Flute
6. Guitar
7. Lute
8. Piano
9. Saxophone
10. String instrument
11. Brass instrument
12. Violin

Other music topics

1. Music -- actually not so important; the Grove dictionary of music avoided defining until the 2001 edition. Nice to have though, and very hard to write.
2. Music technology
3. Song -- Lied is lower priority, but popular song is high priority.
4. Music and text -- or something like this (perhaps Lyric?)
5. History of music
6. Musicology and Music history
7. Music theory
   1. Key (music) -- what everyone wants to know always
   2. Scale (music)
   3. Mode (music) -- in particular, definitions of major and minor.

Developed articles

These aren't "Top Priority" articles, but represent the interests of authors and editors of Citizendium. They are featured in the sense that they are likely to become important Internet resources on the topic.

1. Music in Berlin
2. Tale Ognenovski - There is a collection of materials on Ognenovski that was put together by Ognenovski's son, User: Stevan Ognenovski, at TI:Tale_Ognenovski. We're currently looking for a specialist on Macedonian music who could write an article about this topic. Any volunteers? Matthias Röder 07:41, 15 August 2007 (CDT)

Approved article?

Please see Symphony and Talk:Symphony to join in the editing and discussion on (potentially) the first article to be approved by the Music Workgroup.

Not to neglect Ancient Celtic music, though technically that's part of the CZ:Classics Workgroup Michael Scott Cuthbert 20:00, 28 October 2007 (CDT)