Talk:Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky)

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[edit] English title

I moved this article to the English title as per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English). Hyacinth 20:26, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

And I moved it to turn the original into a disambiguation page that points to the poem and the composition. David Sneek 08:05, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cats

Afternoon of a Faun is a choreography, a ballet, and a piece of music, and could be categorized as all of those. One the one hand "ballet" means music and choreography, so those categorizations are unecessary. On the other, what is a choreography without its dance, ballet, or music? Are there articles about "choreographies"? Hyacinth 01:17, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] correction to title

The correct name of this work is "Prelude A L'apres-midi d'un Faune". Whatever happened to the "Prelude" bit? Debussy never intended this as a ballet. To him it was a concert piece.

User:Ogg, on wikipedia, per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English), English titles are preferred.
The current article is about the "concert piece" and the ballet. Perhaps you are willing to create a seperate article for the piece? Hyacinth 20:55, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] help

the half step descent to the tritone and ascent of the flute.

could you please help me in translating this sentence in italian?i think it's important but i don't know anything about music theory so i need your help.

it:L'après-midi d'un faune

thanks --joana 22:22, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The choreography being "lost"

I think the statement in the article that the ballet was only performed for a few years and then was lost is wrong. For a start the Figaro criticism led to packed houses for the rest of its first season. The Ballets Russes continued to perform it. In 1940 they took it to Australia where a performance was captured on film. The faune was played by David Lichine who had studied with Nijinsky's sister Nijinska. This part of the article is very misleading and should be corrected... Since there appears to have been no activity on this page for two years, I will wait a week, then make the edit, with verifiable sources for each statement.Rivergod 11:38, 12 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] What is going on?

I am surprised to find that there has been a move of some sort from Afternoon of a Faun (ballet) (AFB) to Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) (AFN). Some questions:

  • Wasn't there considerable content at AFB? I seem to recall that there was; but the history comes up blank! Why is this? It looks as if most of the history has been deleted by an administrator. Did this happen? If so, why?
  • Where is the discussion that should precede any such action, and any such move? Where is the evidence that the appropriate tag for potentially controversial moves ({{move|NewName}}) was applied, and discussion allowed for? (see Wikipedia:Requested_moves).
  • Why has the talk from AFB been moved, and a redirect applied? This is highly irregular, and denies the opportunity for discussion of the article AFB, and of its status as a mere redirect. I shall now remove that redirect. Every article has its own talk page, even if the article is just a redirect.
  • An anonymous editor earlier removed content referring to other choreographies than Nijinsky's, saying in the edit summaries that the article was not about those choreographies, just Nijinsky's. If this is so, why is there not some "See also" mention of those others? If there is no article like AFB, where is it proposed that other choreographies of AF be treated in Wikipedia?

I'm posting these questions at the talk page of AFB and AFN. Please leave the talk page for AFN in place; and if you do want to put a redirect there, DISCUSS that action first. This is the correct procedure at Wikipedia.

– Noetica♬♩ Talk 03:56, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Afternoon of a Faun (ballet) moved to Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky)

Afternoon of a Faun (ballet) was moved to Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) to make space for pages about other choreographers' settings of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun. Robert Greer (talk) 15:48, 17 December 2007 (UTC)