User:Rob~enwiki

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Hello! Welcome to my userpage.

I used to be a postgraduate researcher in music at Durham University[1], and have been contributing occasionally to Wikipedia since December 2005. 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.

On Wikipedia I tend to write pages about

Personent Hodie, I syng of a mayden, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, and Wisbech Grammar School
which you can probably guess are where I originate from and went to school.

Outside of Wikipedia, I have presented academic papers about the composers Ernest Farrar[3] and Gerald Finzi, so it's a bit shameful I haven't really improved their WP pages - it's mainly because I tend to focus on serious British music of that era as part of my university research and don't want to end up quoting my internet self! I also used to write and present my own student radio programmes called Absolute Classic[4] and A Little Light Music

Student Radio Awards.[6] This programme used to feature a slightly silly radio serial called Forsooth!, which is still available on YouTube.[7]

I have occasionally added a few bits and pieces to British radio and television pages here and there as well, although usually by accident, as I write television articles and other articles under another more active alternative account. (My other account is not used as a "

sockpuppet", but exists purely because I prefer to keep my music-related articles separate under my actual name.) Also outside of Wikipedia I co-write a website about media-type things called "Image Dissectors"[8] My latest external website, "War Composers" is about composers who fought in World War I.[9]
In real life, I used to work in Libraries & Archives and now work for a certain public service broadcaster. Needless to say, none of my edits reflect the views of my employer.

Main Contributions

Started:

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, The Holy Boy, The Lord at first did Adam make, Clement Paman, Trinity Carol Roll (DYK), Douglas Fox, Composer of the Week, St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden, Melissa Harrison, Lo! He comes with clouds descending (DYK). William Smethergell, Choral Evensong, A Moorside Suite, National Service of Remembrance, William Inglott, Theme One, Selden Carol Book, Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, The First Nowell (Vaughan Williams), Benjamin Cosyn, Guyhirn Chapel of Ease
.

Expanded:

Greater Churches Network
.

Categories, etc I also began, and have started to populate the Category:Light music composers, Category:Light music compositions, Category:Brass band composers and two categories about medieval carols Category:Piae Cantiones and Category:Sloane Manuscript 2593.

References

Yes, it's a bit pretentious using references on my user page, but I seem to have developed an irrational fear of the "citation needed" template. Plus, linking words to hyperlinks looks a bit untidy in my opinion.

  1. ^ My pathetic profile
  2. ^ Light Music Society
  3. ^ Abstract listing
  4. ^ Absolute Classic
  5. ^ A Little Light Music
  6. ^ 2009 SRA nominations
  7. ^ The Forsooth Saga
  8. ^ imagedissectors.com
  9. ^ War Composers
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