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Josef Reicha's Cello Concerto in G (I know it from a recording "Aus Schlössern Und Residenzen: Oettingen-Wallerstein" -- an old Telefunken recording, I believe) with Anner Bijlsma and Concerto Amsterdam ( but have no idea how to get hold of the score) ends with just the cello stroking (in ...

gardano wrote What I'm trying to do with this query is to refresh the app with all new compositions and composers since the last time the app was launched. Now, that is something I have been looking for on imslp for a long time, would your app also work in a regular browser? Actually, I don't know....

Hmm, would list=categorymembers on Category:Composers work? :¬) Yep, I'm doing that for the initial load of the composers. What I'm trying to do with this query is to refresh the app with all new compositions and composers since the last time the app was launched. AHHH now that I think of it, I rea...

KGill is right. NS_CATEGORY is defined as 14. Category:Composers should contain all composer categories. Oh, OK. I'm sure I made the invalid assumption purely because most new categories are of composers, but not all. I'll have to look through the API and see if I can pre-filter the requests, or al...

Hi all, I'm trying to parse the update feed from the wiki, and what I'd hoped to do was to determine the kind of update via the namespace property of the returned dictionary. It seemed that * "ns=0" gives a composition (this seems to work fine), and * "ns=14" would give a compose...

And of course there's always the Handel concerto(i?) for harp or organ.

Awesome!

It'd be much easier to just look for the string " composers" rather than composers+people, etc, or to do error-prone (on my part) string splitting.

Thanks folks for your really fine quick work!

Oh, I like that solution best of all -- just strip out the last word, rather than any other involved logic. And I'm glad our discussion aired issues that need fixing. Fixing is a good thing! :¬)

Thanks for the answer.

One last question. So is it safe to say that the first word after the "|Nationality=" becomes the nationality field value? I'm asking because of nations like "New Zealand", which wouldn't fit into that assumption...

but the way the fte template is implemented, and subsequent words such as “composers” are stripped away when the nationality is added to the appropriate category, e.g. Category:Italian people. Cheers, PML OK thanks for the answer. So to completely understand you, when someone now adds the category ...

I see what the problem is. I had a bug in my parsing code. The list actually looks like this: 'Albanian' 'Algerian composers' 'American composers' 'American people' 'American' 'Argentinian composers' 'Argentinian' 'Armenian composers' 'Australian composers' 'Australian people' 'Australian' 'Austrian...

That's very strange - I've never seen anything like many of the examples you gave. There should be one of three forms given: the old one ('Austrian composers'), the new correct one ('Austrian'), and an alternate form that appears on only a few pages ('Austrian people'). There shouldn't be any pages...

Hey folks,
I'm a bit delayed getting the MS uploaded. I thought my slide scanner would be able to handle the microfilm (my old one was able to). I'm in search of a digital microfilm scanner as we speak. Hang tight!

And of course, view the PDFs, page-by-page. That strikes me as the key element. A string quartet arrives with four iPads - one each. They stick them on their music stands, enter the appropriate IMLSP url, then play. They finish playing, the audience applauses, everyone goes home. The test of your a...

I'm parsing all nationalities in order to allow filtering by nationality, and it seems to me that this field could use some clean-up (unless I'm not understanding the current uses of this field). Here's what I get: As you can see, in many instances, a nationality has * Nationality * Nationality + 'p...