Complete unconditional support: the articles are serious and well documented, Monteverdi deserves no less being the prime composer marking the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music, notably with its innovative uses of dissonances. Plus he essentially invented the opera format in spite of a small couple of barely earlier pieces that are really more precursors than proper operas. An essential topic to understand music at the turn of the 17th century.
Iry-Hor (
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11:34, 5 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Support. The articles are all excellent. I remain unconvinced that 'Featured topics' serve much of a useful purpose, but as they exist, this should certainly be added to them.--
Smerus (
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19:48, 5 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Comment: The articles look fantastic, and it's certainly a worthy topic, but I'm confused by the inclusion of L'Arianna; isn't it one of the "lost operas"? If it's here because fragments of the music are extant, the articles seem to indicate that at least a bit of the music also remains from Proserpina rapita. It seems to me as though either both or neither of these should be included but I may be missing something. Great work to all who wrote them! -
Bryan Rutherford (
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02:00, 6 July 2020 (UTC)reply
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Bryanrutherford0: I had a feeling this would come up – I probably should have addressed it in the blurb above. Basically, L'Arianna is the only lost one where enough even exists to write a full article about – it's also very important for its Lamento, see the third paragraph of the article. Brian himself actually recognizes this on the
Lost operas talk page. Anyways, to your point of fragments of music existing for Proserpina rapita as well, this is true, but this opera hardly had the influence of L'Arianna and an article dedicated solely to it would seriously struggle to have more information in it than the section for it already in the
Lost operas article.
Aza24 (
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05:23, 6 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Support -- I'm with
Smerus on this one, I'm not sure of the point of featured topics, but as a collection of excellently written articles, in my opinion, this has to be one of the best. CassiantoTalk06:59, 6 July 2020 (UTC)reply
Support -- Not my area of expertise, at all! But the articles look excellent, and I'm sure the grouping into a topic serves a purpose, if only to encourage the writing of such a good set of articles.
KJP1 (
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08:54, 6 July 2020 (UTC)reply