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Now I've finally managed to edit my draft on Handel enough to publish it online... Available in http://www.h2g2.com/A412444 ...

Feel free to correct my grammar and add anything I've forgotten - if you have time...

Great! Now going for a look

I came, I saw - you won! Love it!

It reads very well. I'll put a link into the covering article. here are a few observations and corrections:

Biography, para.3: Needs a comma: "After spending a few years in Hamburg , Handel ..."

Biography, last para: Worth mentioning that Handel switched from opera to oratorio to keep production costs down (no scenery, no costumes).

Music section: comparison should be "either" not "neither". Also, how about one-line explanations ( ) of homophony and polyphony?

List of major works: A mention of his Concerti Grossi?

That's it - a really nice article - thanks.

I've just done a first draft of an explanation of the "Goldberg" variations as A433748 . Would you care to look, and make comments? Much appreciated.

Thanks for your comments!

I've corrected the mistakes, but will add the rest of your suggestions later (when have more time...) - I'll also take a look at the Goldberg variations...

Now how does this 'university'-thing work? Should I put it to the Peer Review page?? If Handel gets edited before your covering article they'll remove the link when editing - and the link's temporary anyway since the number will change after editing... I'm all confused...

The mention of production costs it there now... And I tried to explain polyphony & homophony but found it too difficult in English... Perhaps you'd like to help?

Read through the 'Goldberg Variations' - great! I don't think there's anything I could add - I'm not too familiar with them...
Just one stylish thing I noticed - the paragraphs are touching the headers... Do you use the tags?

To answer your various questions:

The idea of preparing a series of related articles as a Uni. project is to be able to put comprehensive links into all of them - in both directions, which means not submitting them until the agreed "set" is complete. Then we recommend the whole lot; if accepted, they are published in ones and twos.

At some point soon (probably within 2 weeks, those who've contributed will do a last review & proof read, and we'll agree if we're ready to submit. In the meantime, I'll sort the admin details out (through the Uni.)

OK - I'll write a few lines on homophony & polyphony - sometime over the next few days - I'll post them on this thread.

I'm afraid I'm still a novice at GuideML. Joanna has taken care of some of my articles, and tidied them up. So tages provide some paragraph formatting? Space between text and header ... Presumably a between header and text .... so the goes ???? (Sorry to be so dim!)

The tags surround the paragraphs so it would look like this:

And thanks for the term-explanations - much appreciated
The editing-thing is clear now too I guess...

Aha! I had been truggling along using multiple s. How inelegant!

Some re=formatting coming up, I feel!

Thanks for the tip.

With apologies for the dealy, here are some suggested words to explain homophony and polyphony.:

Homophony and Polyphony.

They are two different ways of composing arrangements. As an example, consider a melody that is the top part of a four-part arrangement. There are two ways of adding the remaining three parts.

Homophony is where the composer looks at the music in vertical slices - taking each note of the melody, and constructing a chord underneath it with the other three parts. Each chord has to observe the musical "rules", so that the result sounds pleasant.

In polyphony, the composer works horizontally - each of the four parts has a life in itself - rather like four melodies coexisting in the same space. Again, the result must sound musical, so some conventions are observed, but there is a greater degree of compositional freedom - for example, dissonance can be introduced.


Will that do for you?

That certainly will do!! Thanks!!
I thought it would be best as a footnote so I added it there... If you have different opinions, just say so...

I agree - best as a footnote - looks great!
I'll apply some "polish" to the other articles, then call the Uni. - I'll keep you informed. Thanks again for the contribution.