ShannaGabrielle

Reflective Essay

Wikipedia Project after thoughts

This project was a huge hassle, not in concept but in execution. I’m really glad we had the check point throughout the semester orelse this project would’ve become a burden versus a learning tool. When it came to actually working on the project, the most difficult aspect was gathering information that was suitable and sourced that a wikibot would not automatically take down, this was by far the part that took me the longest to complete just based off the specificity that was required. Next came the formatting, I messed up here and did it a sort of backwards long way that was fixed very quickly once I realized the problem, but since I was editing the entire project the long manual way, I got lost in all the mumbo jumbo of the editing program. Once I fixed this and started editing in sandbox this was quickly fixed and formatted the way I wanted it to be and the way we discussed in class. One thing you may notice on my wiki sandbox is that I tried to put in a “move article request form” this is because I did not realize that I could just copy and paste my article directly on the wiki mainspace,but once I figured that out it took me a total of three minutes. The in class peer to peer review was very helpful because it gave a list of revisions and formatting errors to fix. The reason I thought we had to request a move was so that it would not automatically be deleted by a bot on wiki, but that was all for naught anyways because in the end, the person to quickly edit and take down my article in the end was not a bot, but the original author of the first Aure Soavi e Lieti article. That author took down my formatted article within a half day, leaving me a few sassy comments along the way as well, commenting on how his formatting was much better.

The issue that apparently arose between the original author and myself was in how we fundamentally categorized the material, while I tried to expand on the social context of Handel’s life at the time, terms used in his day, and give a brief description of the terms I used throughout the article along with a formatted way of giving the english and Italian translation of the lyrics, he decided to stick with his original format which included the boxs for movements that is in the original page. He did decide to keep some of my biographical information though, and it appears as though he added entirely new information to the “Background” category. The other author has also re edited my original transfer 14 times in the past 10 hours. All of the revision comments have been completely unnecessary, it was said “re-write garbled, inaccurate, unreferenced section with material from George Frideric Handel and Ruspoli family” although I did reference it and I personally thought it was much more understandable than the revised version, but regardless the author still used information I added, so I don’t see how he can comment that it’s garbled, inaccurate, and unreferenced and still use it, but that’s just my opinion. Also, the author just put my sources under a new category of “further sources” which honestly makes no sense to me since we share about half our sources. Basically this other author has just been cleaning and re editing and modifying this page constantly for hours now, unnecessarily and with unneeded aggression. I did learn however that the other author has written like three hundred plus articles about opera on wikipedia and has very strong opinions.

All in all, this was an informative and useful project that I did not mind completing, hopefully I will use this information as I progress through to grad school. I’m glad I’ve learned how quickly an article can be taken down and changed, and how difficult it can be to even edit simple articles with minor edits. It has also taught me that the information on wikipedia is, for the most part, very well sourced and accurate and that the people writing articles at least seem to care a lot.

Portfolio

Link to the two contrasting page revisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aure_soavi_e_lieti_%28Handel%29&type=revision&diff=693225074&oldid=543546500

Link to a google doc of my portfolio

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j4Pw-Kp08337L1SjWd0p9BTjir5-Udf7fPCvsgqN3x8/pub

Below is the outline of my wikipedia project before in the class review.

Training for Students complete!

Outline before in-class Revision

Aure soavi e liete (HWV 84) is a dramatic secular cantata for soprano written by Georg Frideric Handel in 1707. Other catalogues of Handel's music have referred to the work as HG l,12 (there is no HHA designation of the work).[1] The title of the cantata translates as "Soft and delightful breezes".

Handel composed a series of 5 cantatas in the later summer of 1707 in Italy. His later cantatas lack a refrain section, the cantatas that he wrote in the later summer of 1707 contains similar lines of text from at the beginnings and ends of phrases (Harris pg 98).

Aure soave e Lieti link

Wiki Outline

History

The copyist's bill for Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli [1]

A typical performance of the work takes about five and a half minutes. is dated 16 May 1707 Auri Soavi (Rome, 1707; Ruspoli: 16 May 1707)

Synopsis

text blends delightful nature images with the feelings the singer has for his beloved Clori.

English translation

Soft and Delightful Breezes, (Aure soave e liete,)

Hushed evening shadows, (Ombre notturne e chete,)

From summer heat

You give us sweet relief.

But my heart can not find,

In its ever-burning, loving core,

The one who will defend it or give it rest;

Wherefore Alone among you,

I imagine speaking to her,

Who does not hear me,

Soft Breezes, evening shadows.

Dear Eyes, that bring the dawn

When so beautiful you appear to me,

You light a thousand flames in my heart,

But you do not feel pity for burning.

Pity, Clori, pity,

If that which is pity

Is known inside your heart.

Pray! Make my soul

See and experience the proof

That pity exists in your beautiful heart.

Structure

'The work is scored for solo soprano and keyboard (with scattered figured bass markings). The cantata contains two recitative-aria pairings.'

A typical performance of the work takes about five and a half minutes. Talking about the continuo cantata: Soprano and continuo, in the key of E-Flat M, language Italian

r= recitative, A=Aria, s-Arioso, x=single unrhymic line, /= section division in the De Capo'

r (aabab/cc/dxxd)

A (ab/ab)

r (ababcc)

A (aab/aab)

Bibliography

Harris, Ellen T. Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 2001. Print.

Burrows, Donald. Handel. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. N. pag. Print. Master Musicians Ser.

Chrysander, Friedrich. "Aure Soavi E Liete, HWV 84 (Handel, George Frideric)." - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music. Georg

Friedrich Händels Werke. Band 50 Leipzig: Deutsche Händelgesellschaft, 1887. Plate H.W. 50., n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2015.

"Handel Secular Cantatas." Stanley Sadie. Gramophone, n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2015.

Talbot, Michael. Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy. Burlington: Ashgate, 2009. Print.

The International Library of Music for Home and Studio. Vol. 1. New York: U Society, 1936. 53-68. Print. Musical Literature.

Bucchianeri, Elizabeth A. New York: Batalha, 2010. Handel's Path to Covent Garden: E.A. Bucchianeri: Books. Print. 28 Sept. 2015.