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A fact from Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 November 2023 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Comment: My annual contribution to Britten's birthday, 22 November. I believe that the title and Divine Rapture tell the story without addition, but am open to suggestions.
ALT1 is something that could be said about estimated 50 other pieces, and the sentence doesn't even mention what kind of music it is, could be a piano quintet, let alone explain why Canticle.
ALT2 is the opinion of this reviewer (and others), so would have to be marked as later interpretation. Further issues:
it misses the name of Peter Pears, which to mention seems only fair, + it is known.
Britten did a lot lot to "hide" the expression, by using text based on the bible, and the double meaning doesn't come across.
Why "work" and not saying precisely what it is, - we may have readers who don't even know that Britten was a composer.
At this point, I'd prefer ALT0 which is strictly factual, has Pears and tenor, and explains Canticle by mentioning Song of Songs. I believe that the title is interesting enough not to need extra hookiness. --
Gerda Arendt (
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12:00, 17 November 2023 (UTC)reply
Thank you,
MyCatIsAChonk! I thought I put enough in quotation marks of the ref, - what do you see? Help in rewording is appreciated if needed, - it's a touchy topic, and I'm afraid to miss the meaning. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
16:58, 20 November 2023 (UTC)reply
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A fact from Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 November 2023 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
Comment: My annual contribution to Britten's birthday, 22 November. I believe that the title and Divine Rapture tell the story without addition, but am open to suggestions.
ALT1 is something that could be said about estimated 50 other pieces, and the sentence doesn't even mention what kind of music it is, could be a piano quintet, let alone explain why Canticle.
ALT2 is the opinion of this reviewer (and others), so would have to be marked as later interpretation. Further issues:
it misses the name of Peter Pears, which to mention seems only fair, + it is known.
Britten did a lot lot to "hide" the expression, by using text based on the bible, and the double meaning doesn't come across.
Why "work" and not saying precisely what it is, - we may have readers who don't even know that Britten was a composer.
At this point, I'd prefer ALT0 which is strictly factual, has Pears and tenor, and explains Canticle by mentioning Song of Songs. I believe that the title is interesting enough not to need extra hookiness. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
12:00, 17 November 2023 (UTC)reply
Thank you,
MyCatIsAChonk! I thought I put enough in quotation marks of the ref, - what do you see? Help in rewording is appreciated if needed, - it's a touchy topic, and I'm afraid to miss the meaning. --
Gerda Arendt (
talk)
16:58, 20 November 2023 (UTC)reply