In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe you heard in the news about the archive of unpublished manuscripts > by famous composers such as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. This archive was > lost during World War II, has been found in Kiev, and is now being made > available for research and "practical" purposes. For more information, > see http://www.sing-akademie.de/news-kiew.htm (this page contains > information mostly in German language, but also some in English further > down on the page). I'd not heard of this archive, but from the (English parts of) the page you pointed out, it sounds very interesting. > Maybe we should ask if we can somehow get access to some of the works and > try to publish it on mutopia? I think it would be nice if there were some > piece of famous baroque music that has been first published on mutopia... Unless I've missed something, the page above doesn't mention any of the music being digitised, so presumably it only exists in the original paper form ATM. Therefore, if anyone wants to do any work with them, they'd have to go to Kiev. A slight drawback, but if anybody is willing and able to go and gain access to these manuscripts, I'm sure we'd be more than happy for them to be contributed to Mutopia (subject to checking out the legal position, of course). I agree that it would be fantastic for the first publication of works by such famous composers to be on Mutopia! > For proper editing, there, however, should be some annotational features > added to lilypond (therefore this mail is cc:-ed to lilypond-devel). In > particular, it should be possible to have a standardized way of putting > information into an .ly file such as "the manuscript contains here a cis, > but it probably should be a c" (i.e. some kind of alternative music, > with only one alternative actually printed in the score, and other > alternatives added as footnote, for example). We (at Mutopia) have been thinking along the same lines recently, and there will be a number of improvements coming up shortly for people who want to publish well researched editions on Mutopia. I agree with you that some kind of footnote feature would be useful in LilyPond. Developers: is it practical/possible to add something along the lines of the LaTeX footnote feature - maybe even using it, since LilyPond uses LaTeX? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Sawer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mutopia Maintainer Free sheet music for all at Mutopia: http://www.mutopiaproject.org _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
