THE PROJECT
The goal of this project is to create an ordered list of works recommended by TalkClassical members. Here is a website with the results so far in the various subpages. Help us out!
HOW TO VOTE
You can vote once per day. Everybody votes for works on the "board". When a work becomes popular enough, it's moved to the list of recommended works.
The voting template looks like this:
1. Go to the end of the thread and find the most recent vote. Put the voter's username under "After".
2. Vote for one work: either seconding a work already on the nominated list or nominating an entirely new work of your choosing. New works must not already be included in the overall "enshrined" list, shown alphabetically in the following several posts as well as that same website.
If you nominated a work, add it to the "Nominated" section like this: "Composer: Title - My username". If you voted for something in the "Nominated" section, move it to the end of the "Seconded" list, removing the username attached. No need to vote for works already on the "Seconded" list in this thread.
3. Include an "Updated board" in your post if you can: copy the board from the most recent post, and simply update it as in Step 2.
4. Once the "Seconded" list reaches at least 15 works, I or another member will create an accompanying poll thread with those 15 works asking for users to select their preferred work(s).
5. After a week or so, the polled pieces will be added to the overall list in the order of their received votes. Any ties will be broken by the chronological order in which the pieces were seconded, from oldest to newest.
TIPS
1. Vote for the works that you like and want to recommend, even if others disagree. Everyone's participation is valued.
2. The list of recommendations is not meant as an official, objective canon of Western art music. It simply reflects what we as a group like.
3. If you vote often, we encourage you to spread your votes around different works that you like, rather than repeatedly voting for one.
4. It is generally courteous not to vote for works in second place as that would inhibit expedient enshrinements.
FINAL NOTES
1. Shorter works usually recorded as a group - e.g. Chopin's nocturnes - are usually regarded as one work, so long as they're not collectively too long (not more than two or three hours). If there's doubt about this, we'll discuss it.
2. If there's an inconsistency between a person's votes and their "Updated board", we'll change the board to reflect the votes.
3. This project has been running for a while, so most of the really popular works have already been recommended. Feel free to recommend something obscure!
Special thanks to all of our regular voters for their continual contributions and support!
The goal of this project is to create an ordered list of works recommended by TalkClassical members. Here is a website with the results so far in the various subpages. Help us out!
HOW TO VOTE
You can vote once per day. Everybody votes for works on the "board". When a work becomes popular enough, it's moved to the list of recommended works.
The voting template looks like this:
Here's how to fill it out, plus some new rules for the new times:
1. Go to the end of the thread and find the most recent vote. Put the voter's username under "After".
2. Vote for one work: either seconding a work already on the nominated list or nominating an entirely new work of your choosing. New works must not already be included in the overall "enshrined" list, shown alphabetically in the following several posts as well as that same website.
If you nominated a work, add it to the "Nominated" section like this: "Composer: Title - My username". If you voted for something in the "Nominated" section, move it to the end of the "Seconded" list, removing the username attached. No need to vote for works already on the "Seconded" list in this thread.
3. Include an "Updated board" in your post if you can: copy the board from the most recent post, and simply update it as in Step 2.
4. Once the "Seconded" list reaches at least 15 works, I or another member will create an accompanying poll thread with those 15 works asking for users to select their preferred work(s).
5. After a week or so, the polled pieces will be added to the overall list in the order of their received votes. Any ties will be broken by the chronological order in which the pieces were seconded, from oldest to newest.
TIPS
1. Vote for the works that you like and want to recommend, even if others disagree. Everyone's participation is valued.
2. The list of recommendations is not meant as an official, objective canon of Western art music. It simply reflects what we as a group like.
3. If you vote often, we encourage you to spread your votes around different works that you like, rather than repeatedly voting for one.
4. It is generally courteous not to vote for works in second place as that would inhibit expedient enshrinements.
FINAL NOTES
1. Shorter works usually recorded as a group - e.g. Chopin's nocturnes - are usually regarded as one work, so long as they're not collectively too long (not more than two or three hours). If there's doubt about this, we'll discuss it.
2. If there's an inconsistency between a person's votes and their "Updated board", we'll change the board to reflect the votes.
3. This project has been running for a while, so most of the really popular works have already been recommended. Feel free to recommend something obscure!
Special thanks to all of our regular voters for their continual contributions and support!