User talk:Bel beller

Welcome

Hi, Bel beller, and welcome to Wikipedia. Many thanks for the great resources you've been finding and especially for starting Enrico Delle Sedie. (That article "Enrico Delle Sedie - Una Voce Ritrovata" was fascinating.) If you have any questions or need help just give me a shout on my talk page. You might also want to check out the resources at WikiProject Opera. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 20:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Minor" edits

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Will Beback talk 09:42, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bel canto

Thanks for your note. That organization is notorious for holding fringe views and finding myriad applications. The cited paper, The Tradition of Florentine bel canto, is an example of that. It spends a considerable amount of space arguing against "the modern, high tuning (a =440 Hz to a =448 Hz)". In fact, its main thesis seems to be that music is ruined by the shift, one of the movement's pet issues. One of the article's main sources is a book written by their leader, a dilettante with no formal training. I'm sure there are better sources available.[1] Will Beback talk 20:45, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I was getting more and more worried about the inclusion of the link, the more I found out about the organization that published it (exactly inline with the points you mention); so I welcome the removal. Bel beller (talk) 07:00, 31 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]