A fact from Magnificat (C. P. E. Bach) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 November 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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"...an extended setting, along with his father's setting and the Magnificat by John Rutter." "Along with" is too weak to convey much sense. Does it simply refer to the length of the two other extended settings?--Wetman (talk) 16:18, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You probably have a better idea to describe the difference of a short liturgical piece that perhaps has each verse only once, to these (and there are others, but these have articles) which devote considerable time to each idea, - more important than 2 minutes vs. 42. The composer performed it in concert, several times. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
In the 'Movements' table, the WLs in the 'text source' column point to the KJV version which is in English. Since KP Bach set the Latin words of the Vulgate version, shouldn't the links reflect this, or perhaps the colunm heading could be changed to 'text translation'? Unhelpfully, the familar Latin singing version is not flavour of the month in the current Magnificat article, although it's in de:Magnificat. >MinorProphet (talk) 07:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Good point, however I believe for the majority of our readers Latin is like Chinese, - those who love and understand Latin will know the Magnificat by heart, and if not are intelligent enough to find the Latin text, - it's the others I want to help to understand the idea, especially as this article does not (yet) go into detail about the single movements, as his father's does. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:44, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
