Dear list members,
The Golden Pages for Musicologists <https://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk/> has
been operating for a quarter of a century as a website moderated by
musicologists at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was set up by
Geoffrey Chew in the 1990s, and I have been maintaining it since 2005,
jointly with Tim Summers since 2019, and now with Tom Parkinson. I'm
writing now to announce some significant updates to the way the Golden
Pages will run in future, to make contributing and editing much easier, and
to expand the range of resources that the site can offer.
*Listings of online departmental seminars*
The first change is the creation of a new resource for online departmental
seminars. Since everything is held online these days, and people are
interested in attending research talks in places they can't otherwise
reach, anywhere in the world, we think it would now be useful to offer a
place to advertise these things in one place. I have filled in a few
forthcoming RHUL events, and other institutions have started to add some of
their own to this page: <
https://goldenpages.miraheze.org/wiki/Departmental_seminars>. Please join
them. Instructions on how to make an announcement are given on the page.
*Other changes*
The ambition for this new version of the Golden Pages <
https://goldenpages.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page> is, however, broader than
this. We invite musicologists to add any kind of material they think will
be professionally interesting to musicologists. It is now a user-moderated
wiki, using the same software as Wikipedia, and in principle, if something
would professionally interest some musicologists, there seems no reason why
it should not be on there. If people want to curate reading lists on
musicological topics, share drafts of work for crowd-sourced feedback, or
upload transcriptions or translations of research materials they would like
to share, the wiki would allow it.
As with Wikipedia, all site users are now potential moderators, and anyone
can correct for obvious errors or raise any issues that might arise as the
site's users add their own text and edit the text of existing pages.
We hope that this new site design will make the flow of professional
information swifter, easier, and much more flexible than it has been to
date on the Golden Pages. We are hopeful that it will make the resource
even more useful in future.
All the best,
Paul
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*J. P. E. Harper-Scott BA (Dunelm) DPhil (Oxon) FHEA*
Professor of Music History and Theory
Royal Holloway, University of London
https://www.jpehs.co.uk
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