User:Rob Beecham
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Hello! Welcome to my userpage.
I've been contributing to Wikipedia for a year now. My particular interest is in British composer and music articles, and often other pages that I have written have a link to these, although sometimes my other contributions are not connected at all! In particular, I have been writing pages about British Light music, a branch of classical music which seemed to be rather neglected here.
[edit] Main Contributions
Started:
- Light music
- Gordon Langford
- Friday Night is Music Night
- Ernest Tomlinson
- Arthur Wood
- Trevor Duncan
- Clifton Parker
thus, wrote
- Elizabethan Express (score by the above composer)
and expanded
- Blue Pullman (ditto)
I also began, and have started to populate the Category:Light music composers.
Expanded:
- Ronald Binge
- Ernest Farrar (composer and teacher of Gerald Finzi. I would like to know more about Farrar actually, but there is very little of his music available.)
- Ron Goodwin
- Wilfred Josephs
- Stanley Black
- Peter Warlock (only a small section added, but there was little about his choral compositions before. Again, this would be a good section to expand)
This addition created the need to create a short article on
- Adam Lay Ybounden (A notable version was by Warlock)
Other bits and pieces:
I began the page on the musical form of the Missa Brevis, which seems to be quite popular with English composers, and I started the page on the folk song Early One Morning, which was the only piece in the BBC Radio 4 UK Theme without its own entry. I also reformatted and expanded the UK Theme and Sailing By pages. As well as this, I improved the Drunken Sailor page, which was not the recognised English version (yet is an English song).
I also added quite a lot to the Newcastle Cathedral page, which was rather short. Actually, I have noticed many cathedral pages are quite short, which seems rather sad to me.
I started a page about the British Composer Neil Richardson, but disappointingly found very little about him. However, he deserves to be kept I think. If anyone else knows anything, it would be great if you could expand on it!
I have also added a few bits and pieces to British radio and television pages here and there.
And another thing...
Observers may notice that I use the word "notable" far too often, although it always seems the most appropriate word to use...
[edit] External links
Please click here for a full list of my contributions.
