Hi, On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Colin Hall <colingh...@gmail.com> wrote: > How about Urs, Susan, you and I collaborating on a one-page score > via github as a way of confirming our understanding, and demonstrating > how it can be done? Even a few staves would be enough to confirm a suitable > workflow.
Good idea! I suggest to choose a piece with two independent staves, though; otherwise collisions during work will happen all the time and won't reflect real workflow that much. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Urs Liska <li...@ursliska.de> wrote: > This experiment could well also serve as a pre-test for a larger idea that I > have in mind (maybe for 2013): I would like to do a 'public experiment' on > how fast and efficient we can collaboratively produce a large score - thanks > to the text based approach. cool! :D > I'd like to do this as a proof-of-concept > project to promote some of LilyPond's qualities to a wider target group ... > Imagine a large symponic movement (or possibly something oratoric) from the > end of the 19th century (so it's in the public domain) of 10 minutes. I suggest something simpler notation-wise, perhaps from an earlier period - Bach, Haendel? If we choose a piece without "markings" (dynamics, articulations, fingerings etc) it will require significantly less tweaking, and i think that LilyPond shows her potential best when there's just music in the ly files (-> things won't break when a different paper size or transposition is requested). Consider the Credo example i've published in previous LilyPond Report: http://news.lilynet.net/IMG/pdf/Coronation_Mass_-_Credo_2-15-33_marked.pdf Getting something like this to publication quality would require a lot of work (yeah, all colored places should be fixed). OTOH, Haendel's Dixit Dominus (http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/3/35/IMSLP13037-232dixit.pdf) contains only notes, ties and lyrics. It would probably be almost perfect out-of-the-box. > If we'd have 20 contributors, each dealing with one or two parts, it should > grow very speedily, documented through daily builds. Maybe we could even > find something that we can produce as a first edition, which would give us > quite some attention in the scholarly world of music edition (furthermore: > this _could_ generate money for the development of Lilypond I suggest to use a KickStarter-based approach: if the initial project proves that we can produce such scores effectively, create a project on kickstarter.com. Really, to me this seems a perfect way: - we get the money *before* doing the work - we don't have to bother with maintaining licenses, royalties etc - the result of out work can be released free (this will make people more enthusiastic) If you haven't seen Open Goldberg Variations project yet, see here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-variations-setting-bach-free?ref=live the situation becomes more and more interesting :) best wishes, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user