No, I haven't finished it yet, but I have decided to work on it a little more diligently. In the past I've mostly worked on it when I was tired with other things and needed a change. Lately I've finished the two violin parts and I've made some headway on the viola part. These three are probably the most dense parts notewise. I've received many fixes to the bassoon parts from another contributor for which I am very grateful. Still to do are the cello (which shares quite a lot with the bass part which is already done), oboe, clarinet and bassoon parts need to be entered. After that it will just be a lot of editing and tweaking. Adding cue notes will be a large effort so I'll probably leave them out at first and encourage people to suggest cues and consult the B&H parts when they become available at IMSLP.
(Working on a simple orchestral parts is a very good way to learn Lilypond. Not much tweaking is necessary to get good results and there is usually only one voice at a time so note entry is simple. If you want to help finish a part let me know!)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Yes We Scan!
I didn't even know the United States had a Government Printing Office. From their faq: "GPO is the Federal Government’s primary centralized resource for gathering, cataloging, producing, providing, authenticating, and preserving published information in all its forms."
It seems that Carl Malamud is campaigning to become the head of the GPO. He's done some wonderful work to promote and protect the public domain in the United States. For example, the decisions of the Federal Courts of the United States have not been accessible for years (expensive and not digitized). He has worked to digitize them and put them online for free through his non-profit public.resource.org. Another example: California has been attempting to claim copyright over the law (the state makes a lot of money charging people to look at the law it seems). Through public.resource.org the California Code of Regulations has been placed online freely available.
He's done good work and it would be great to see him as the head of the GPO. Here's my endorsement.
Yes We Scan!
It seems that Carl Malamud is campaigning to become the head of the GPO. He's done some wonderful work to promote and protect the public domain in the United States. For example, the decisions of the Federal Courts of the United States have not been accessible for years (expensive and not digitized). He has worked to digitize them and put them online for free through his non-profit public.resource.org. Another example: California has been attempting to claim copyright over the law (the state makes a lot of money charging people to look at the law it seems). Through public.resource.org the California Code of Regulations has been placed online freely available.
He's done good work and it would be great to see him as the head of the GPO. Here's my endorsement.
Yes We Scan!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Two pieces added to Mutopia
Reverie by Glazunov and Nocturno by Franz Strauss were added today. Enjoy.
Also the wrong note in the violin part for the Mozart Horn Quintet (pointed out here by soutaro) has been fixed. It took me long enough.
Also the wrong note in the violin part for the Mozart Horn Quintet (pointed out here by soutaro) has been fixed. It took me long enough.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Copyright
(I am not a lawyer. Below is just how I understand the law. It's also and exercise to help me understand it better.)
I just read Bruce Hembd's lastest blog post. Near the beginning he briefly mentions weak copyright laws in the time of Stravinsky. While I can somewhat appreciate that copyright laws near the beginning of the 20th century (when Stravinsky was publishing) did not perhaps protect the authors rights enough, our current laws do not protect the rights of the user or society enough. Copyrights exists for the advancement of "science and useful arts" (From the US Constitution Article I, Section 8, Clause 8). The current laws of life+50 (Canada), life+70 (EU), publication+95 (US sort of), life+100 (Mexico) and others do little to accomplish both goals of encouraging individual creation and progressing the state of the art. Essentially copyrights last forever for the author.
Copyright limits at the turn of the century I think provided a good deal of protection... if the country you lived in was part of the Berne Convention. (See the Berne Convention). Since Russia did not sign the Berne Convention Russian, works were essentially public domain in countries which didn't have treaties with Russia (see here). Also what happened to copyrights during the Russian revolution was very bad for Russian copyright holders. Stravinsky was smart to attempt making new editions to overcome this, but it was just futile at that point to try and bring it back under copyright. International copyright was weak because the new Soviet, the old Russian, US, and other governments didn't always recognize the copyrights of others. Today I think copyright law is mostly fine in this aspect. Unfortunately these laws keep going further and further in how and what they protect until you have the mess that we have today.
Videos on Copyright:
A Fair(y) Use Tale
Larry Lessig TED Talk
UPDATE:
I just noticed the link to Stravinsky's Copyright Blues by Michael Tilson Thomas. One thing I found interesting was that throughout the story Stravinsky was fighting the unfair public domain-ness of his early works then suddenly at the end copyright law is biting him from the other side for his inadvertent use of copyrighted melodies.
I just read Bruce Hembd's lastest blog post. Near the beginning he briefly mentions weak copyright laws in the time of Stravinsky. While I can somewhat appreciate that copyright laws near the beginning of the 20th century (when Stravinsky was publishing) did not perhaps protect the authors rights enough, our current laws do not protect the rights of the user or society enough. Copyrights exists for the advancement of "science and useful arts" (From the US Constitution Article I, Section 8, Clause 8). The current laws of life+50 (Canada), life+70 (EU), publication+95 (US sort of), life+100 (Mexico) and others do little to accomplish both goals of encouraging individual creation and progressing the state of the art. Essentially copyrights last forever for the author.
Copyright limits at the turn of the century I think provided a good deal of protection... if the country you lived in was part of the Berne Convention. (See the Berne Convention). Since Russia did not sign the Berne Convention Russian, works were essentially public domain in countries which didn't have treaties with Russia (see here). Also what happened to copyrights during the Russian revolution was very bad for Russian copyright holders. Stravinsky was smart to attempt making new editions to overcome this, but it was just futile at that point to try and bring it back under copyright. International copyright was weak because the new Soviet, the old Russian, US, and other governments didn't always recognize the copyrights of others. Today I think copyright law is mostly fine in this aspect. Unfortunately these laws keep going further and further in how and what they protect until you have the mess that we have today.
Videos on Copyright:
A Fair(y) Use Tale
Larry Lessig TED Talk
UPDATE:
I just noticed the link to Stravinsky's Copyright Blues by Michael Tilson Thomas. One thing I found interesting was that throughout the story Stravinsky was fighting the unfair public domain-ness of his early works then suddenly at the end copyright law is biting him from the other side for his inadvertent use of copyrighted melodies.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Side tracked
Since IMSLP has opened back up I've been a bit side tracked with adding some pieces there (Schantl Horn Etudes, Danzi Horn Sonata, and a few others). I had a few minutes tonight so I decided to satisfy my "Le Basque" itch. IMSLP has a proper public domain edition to use as the source. I've just committed the solo part and transposed it for horn. Hopefully I'll be able to add the piano part (and of course the viola part from the source) in the coming months for submittal to Mutopia.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Wiki @ GitHub
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Wine Works!
I've run linux full time for a number of years (Ubuntu Hardy currently). I've tried out wine in the past, but it never quite worked. I had the most amazing experience a couple minutes ago. I was wanting to look at the music for Marin Marias's Le Basque. I found a copy here. It was a noteworth composer file. I tried to use some of the nwc to lilypond converters without success. So I figured I was going to have to fire up vmware to view it. I decided to give wine a try for kicks: sudo apt-get install wine. I downloaded the nwc viewer and double clicked on it. It installed perfectly and added an entry to the wine menu. It ran perfectly opened Le Basque perfectly, printed it perfectly and even played the midi perfectly. I'm quite impressed.
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