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Maybe it would be better to arrange simply by "Born in 18th century", "Born in 19th century", "Born in 20th century"? The current arrangement is by genre, and not everyone born in the same time period wrote in the same genre. I'm thinking, for example, of Scott Joplin, who would belong under "Romantic" in the current arrangement, but I'd hardly call him a Romantic composer. I did add Henry Clay Work and Stephen Forster to Romantic, but perhaps this list is supposed to focus more on composers of instrumental music than on songwriters? + An gr 09:41, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Another user has suggested that there should be a "clearer definition of the criteria" for the inclusion of composers into my chronological lists of classical composers. I thought it was okay the way it was, but obviously not all people think the same way. Any suggestions? Classicalfan2 ( talk) 21:15, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Responding to request for participation via Community Portal: The idea of a list of American composers by birthday is a good one. Wikipedia needs a function to generate lists of birthdays of notable persons by category. That way, with a few clicks, the system itself would give all people who have bio articles tagged "American Composer". Doing it manually is much less efficient, and leaves open the accuracy issues identified elsewhere in this discussion. Here.it.comes.again ( talk) 05:34, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
I propose to rename this page to "Chronological list of American composers", for these reasons:
Otherwise, I like the current format of the page. Separate pages by centuries or musical eras would not be helpful, I think; but perhaps "classical" style could be a subdivision of "Chronological list of American composers".
Please also notice this wonderful page on the German Wikipedia – over 800,000 articles. Extremely useful, not just for composers! – Bcjohnston ( talk) 19:15, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
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Maybe it would be better to arrange simply by "Born in 18th century", "Born in 19th century", "Born in 20th century"? The current arrangement is by genre, and not everyone born in the same time period wrote in the same genre. I'm thinking, for example, of Scott Joplin, who would belong under "Romantic" in the current arrangement, but I'd hardly call him a Romantic composer. I did add Henry Clay Work and Stephen Forster to Romantic, but perhaps this list is supposed to focus more on composers of instrumental music than on songwriters? + An gr 09:41, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Another user has suggested that there should be a "clearer definition of the criteria" for the inclusion of composers into my chronological lists of classical composers. I thought it was okay the way it was, but obviously not all people think the same way. Any suggestions? Classicalfan2 ( talk) 21:15, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Responding to request for participation via Community Portal: The idea of a list of American composers by birthday is a good one. Wikipedia needs a function to generate lists of birthdays of notable persons by category. That way, with a few clicks, the system itself would give all people who have bio articles tagged "American Composer". Doing it manually is much less efficient, and leaves open the accuracy issues identified elsewhere in this discussion. Here.it.comes.again ( talk) 05:34, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
I propose to rename this page to "Chronological list of American composers", for these reasons:
Otherwise, I like the current format of the page. Separate pages by centuries or musical eras would not be helpful, I think; but perhaps "classical" style could be a subdivision of "Chronological list of American composers".
Please also notice this wonderful page on the German Wikipedia – over 800,000 articles. Extremely useful, not just for composers! – Bcjohnston ( talk) 19:15, 6 November 2021 (UTC)