Young Composers Wiki

Current editors:

The Young Composers Wiki is a place where composers and musicians have come together to create a collaborative resource from which our users can learn. A list of major categories is provided below for browsing while the Search feature in the left-hand Navigation bar may be used if you aren't sure where to find something. The wiki is an ongoing project and if ever you run across a topic that doesn't have a page on it, feel free to create one and add what you know! Other members will contribute their knowledge and the Editors will make sure everything is laid out properly. This is what makes the wiki such a valuable function of Young Composers.

Guidelines for editing

Unique content is preferred. Content that's not unique will be given an ugly tab at the top noting that the article has been plagiarized and should be rewritten. You can also find a set of guidelines laid down by the site staff which should be adhered to in order to encourage organic unity and límit confusion . These are laid out here.

Within theese bounds, we encourage users to be creative and autonomous in terms of how they approach creating and editing wiki pages. If you have any doubts or questions, the editors are here to help, so don't hesitate to send them a message if you have any wiki related inquiries!


Major Categories
  • Music Articles - This category contains essays, treatises, tutorials, etc. on music or composition written by members of Young Composers - they may contain some subjectivity and are not strictly bound to the site wide style rules.


  • Musical Forms - This category lists all articles pertaining to musical forms such as sonata, concerto, and rondo form, as well as others, such as the minuet and scherzo.


  • Music Theory - This category contains all articles and formal lessons on the topic of music theory.
  • User Profiles - This is a list of self-authored composer profiles. Many of them describe people who are or have been active on the forum.


  • Composers - This is a list of articles on composers written or compiled by members of Young Composers. These articles aim to focus on composers' music, thus the biographical information is kept at a minimum.



  • Composition Analyses - This category contains a list of individual compositions by various composers for which analyses have been written by and for the members of Young Composers.
  • Instruments - This category holds all articles pertaining to musical instruments and orchestration. Articles in this section discuss instrument ranges, timbres, transposition, playing capabilities, and doubling possibilities.
Subcategories: | Woodwind Instruments | Brass Instruments | Stringed Instruments
Percussion Instruments | Keyboard Instruments | Electronic Instruments | Voice Types
  • Music Dictionary - This is a concise list of words, phrases and their meanings as often encountered in music.
  • Help - This is a list of pages that are helpful when composing an article for the Young Composers Wiki. These articles are protected so that only staff can edit them, and the information is up to date. Thus the rules and guidelines found in these articles are current and it is by these guidelines that we will assess articles in the database.

How can I contribute?

To edit an existing page, simply click the "edit" tab at the top. To create a new page, you can use the form to the right. Type the desired article name into the box, then click Submit. Please note that if you choose an article name which already exists, you will be taken to the edit screen for that article.


  • If you would like guidance on what to write for, please refer to the wiki structure here: Site Structure
  • You may add to the site structure list as you feel fit.

Discussing an article

If you wish to discuss an article with fellow users, you can click the "discussion" tab. This will take you to a forum discussion thread. If the thread for the particular article does not already exist, it will be created and you can begin by making suggestions or posing questions.

Often times discussion threads are created on accident by users looking to see if there exists a discussion or not. If you created a thread on accident you may choose to delete it at anytime so long as there are no replies to it. The Editors frequently browse the Talk Page Discussions forum deleting unused threads, so if you created an empty thread and it disappeared, this may have been done by an Editor. Remember to actually pose questions or suggestions in the thread if you have any.

Quick reference

For a more all inclusive resource, see Wiki markup.

  • To create a new section: ==section title==
  • To create a new subsection: ===subsection title===
  • To link to an existing article with the desired link title: [[Young Composers|Home Page]] (will display as Home Page)
    • Do not use URLs when linking from one wiki page to the next.
  • To link to any 'non'-wiki page with the desired link title: [http://www.example.com/ Link Title]
  • To create bulleted lists: * Bullet point text
  • To bold text: '''Bold text''' (three single quotes on either side)
  • To italicize text: ''Italic text'' (two single quotes on either side)
  • To include musical notation examples, use Lilypond notation.

Tips

  • To learn more about wiki syntax, try clicking "edit" (or "view source", if protected) on existing pages. You will be shown the source code behind the page.
  • You can edit the whole page by clicking edit at the top, or you can click edit in a particular section to modify only that section.
  • Creating sections and subsections will automatically lead to the creation of a table of contents at the beginning of the article. To bypass this convention, include a line of code at the beginning or end of the article as follows: __NOTOC__
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