I did a quick check: they did a kickstarter campaign years ago, but the form to register seems to be unavailable. The project seems to be in the "all-in" IMSLP philosophy, alias a whole range of scores with editions made in any way (in terms of editorial criteria) but free. Which is the wrong message (which sources are you relying on? Are you just making a free transcription of a copyrighted edition? What is text and what is editor choice? etc). In this case the idea seems to be "let's supply an editable version so you don't have to spend time in preparing your own edition if you need parts-transposition-whatever" that adds, anyway, an additional passage between the edition and the user. If this were an "amateurs for amateurs" thing it may work just fine, however - since I keep on meeting people that in concerts/recordings/study - use as a reference any kind of "edition" as long as it is free (and I won't name the tons of "self-called-baroque-specialists" who will use "the manuscript", i.e. any kind of handwritten stuff - handwritten by who? when? for which purpose? - found anywhere), I still look with some suspicion this approach which could just add garbage.
I remember being part of this world from before Werner Icking died, and even having published some scholarly editions, I have transcribed hours and hours of music for personal study and for performances, however, I've always felt the doubt that the transcription made could be of any worth for anybody else (and even when people write me for the scores used in my records I provide them for free but always fearing that something might be wrong). I have always seen much respect to the web from the members of this community, and therefore this idea of "please upload as much stuff as you can", maybe I'm old, but it leaves me a bit puzzled. Carlo Il giorno gio 14 mag 2020 alle ore 14:02 Rodolfo Medina < rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Hi all. > > About Openscore project, that claims collaborating with IMSLP: did I > understand > wrong, or they ask people for money: primarily, to work for them; and > secondly, > to purchase those scores that people typed paying for that...? > > What do you think about it? > > thanks, > > Rodolfo > > ------------------------------- > TeX-music@tug.org mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > -- ********************************************* "Sine musica, nulla disciplina potest esse perfecta: nihil enim est sine illa" Rabanus (X. sec) Carlo Centemeri Via Montepulciano, 5 20124 Milano Tel +39.02.2847169 Cell +39.329.2239138 Email ca...@carlocentemeri.it Sito www.carlocentemeri.it *********************************************
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