[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> "I wasn't sure about putting midi files on - the ones generated by
> Lilypond at the moment are fairly basic - things like ties are
> ignored."
> There are a lot of MIDI file sites on the web, and almost no sheet
> music ones. I recommend skipping MIDIs.
I think MIDI helps people that don't know the name of the piece but do
know the melody. If we have MIDI, we could even (at some later
stage), have queries that take mudela input and search the archive for
melodies (or transposed versions). You would enter
a gis a gis a e g f d
and the search engine would come up with Fur Elise. Of course the MIDI
files don't have to be artistically interesting.
> "I don't know what we'd do with pieces without an opus number (quite
> a few) - perhaps order them by year."
> Virtually no baroque-or-before composers used opus numbers, you don't
> know what year most of their works were composed in, many exist in
> several different 'original' versions (Telemann!) ... And, every time
> I turn around, I seem to come across another numbering scheme for
> Scarlatti sonatas...
OK, but I propose to have a numbering scheme anyway. I think it less
prone to spelling details and errors.
> "It's probably sensible for me not to put any ps, pdf or ly files up
> on the website until we've sorted out the copyright situation on this
> mailing list."
> See http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/harpsichord.html#COPY
> for the best current definition of copy-safe music publishing that I
> know of. It has been bounced off every expert group I can find, and
> has passed. The only point raised that got any support has been that,
> strictly, French law appears not to be responsible for the problems
> with French-published music, it's French publishers who are the
> problem.
I think your guidelines are strict, and probably too strict; it does
not take fair use into account. It is legal to copy some editorial
instructions from copyrighted editions.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
