Wookieepedia:WookieeProject Real World Music

WookieeProject: Real World Music is a WookieeProject intended to help organize and improve the articles on out-of-universe music. Come join us! You can comment on the talk page with any suggestions you may have.

Project goals
Our main goal is to make sure Wookieepedia is a reliable and excellent source of information about all things real world music. Though it is realized that not every such article will be able to be made into WP:FA or WP:GA, the goal for those articles is still to make them as complete and comprehensive as possible.

Instructions
If you would like to contribute, please sign your name using three tildes at the bottom of the page under the section "Writers and editors".

Writers

 * 1) Write balanced and without POV.
 * 2) Do not add any speculation to an article.
 * 3) Write about whatever interests you, but try and help out with the current main focus as well.
 * 4) Try and focus on one or two projects at a time, thereby making sure not too many articles are added to the "Works in progress" section.
 * 5) If the Manual of Style and Layout Guide are prohibiting you from contributing your best, ignore them! The editors will help you.

Editors

 * 1) Make sure articles have flawless grammar and spelling.
 * 2) Fix articles to comply with the Manual of Style and Layout Guide.
 * 3) Fix templates and excessive links.
 * 4) Source quotes.
 * 5) Search for new items for the "Appearances" and "Sources" sections of an article.

Terminology

 * Score - the things that make up a CD album of a score are not songs; they are tracks that are sometimes a single cue or, particularly with the prequel albums, several cues edited together
 * Song - with soundtracks, generally refers to a standalone piece of music, often performed by a band or artist (An instrumental track like "Cantina Band" is still a song.)
 * Source music - refers to music heard by the characters in the film, and therefore automatically gets an IU article (e.g. the aforementioned "Cantina Band", known IU as "Mad About Me", plus "Jedi Rocks", "Lapti Nek", etc.), these are not included in this project, hence real world music
 * Theme - a recurring melody that represents a certain thing, often a character. (The difference between theme & motif can be the subject of debate). Now some themes, like "Yoda's Theme", have concert versions. (There are other concert pieces arranged from film cues, like "The Asteroid Field", "Here They Come!", and "The Forest Battle"—although only the last of those appears on the actual soundtrack album; the others can be found on other albums.) Some themes, like "Qui-Gon's theme" or the "Boba Fett theme", do not have concert arrangements and are only heard in score proper.

What articles to and not to write
Now, how should we deal with music articles? We've been all over the place in the past. Here's what we do now:


 * Musical score - This is pretty good, and we should keep it as an overview article (and maybe trim a bit to avoid redundancy)


 * Star Wars Music - This is worthless. It should go.


 * We should have articles for each film's soundtrack, which we have in Category:Soundtracks. These should cover the scores themselves and all album incarnations, which they more or less do now anyway.


 * IU pieces of music like "Mad About Me" get articles anyway.


 * Now, all majors themes ("Princess Leia's Theme", the "Emperor's Theme", etc.) should have their own articles, because many have concert versions and appear in more than one film. Some minor themes, though, like Boba Fett's or Qui-Gon's should also get articles.


 * As for concert pieces like "The Forest Battle", we're inclined to say articles for them.

But. When it comes to any other album track, They should not have articles, and here's why: Album tracks are iffy. Sometimes they are whole cues, sometimes they are partial cues, sometimes they are multiple cues together. A track on one album can be the same piece on a different album under a different name, or the same name can be used on different albums with different pieces of music. Basically, tracks and cues can be a big mess. So in these cases, individual articles are not very helpful and any relevant info would be better off covered in the respective score's article. There we can give full rundowns of the film's cue list (where they're known—some aren't; yes, it's confusing), all the different album versions, and all that jizz. So this part would involve deleting, redirecting, and possible merging, but I'd be shocked if we have a single article in this instance that says anything more than "This 'song' is this long and is played during this scene."

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Writers and Editors

 * 1) Master Fredcerique
 * 2) Milo fett
 * 3) Qui-Gon Reborn

Appropriate Forums

 * Forum:CT:Articles for individual songs on soundtracks

Internet

 * Ultimateeditionsoundtrack.com

CDs

 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace soundtrack
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones soundtrack
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith soundtrack
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope soundtrack
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi soundtrack
 * Star Wars: The Clones Wars soundtrack
 * Shadows of the Empire soundtrack