brainstorm - microtonal score archive

Okay,

I like scores. When a piece of music wants to be performed repeatedly the same way, (or)
by people who weren't the originators of the piece, or when someone wants to study or
analyze a piece, it helps to have a score. Hooray performance, and hooray scores!

I want to perform and analyze more microtonal music. I could ask for a bunch of
composers personally to send me scores, I suppose. I would rather think that others
share this interest and would benefit from the creation of a (free) archive of microtonal
scores.

Look at what CPDL <www.cpdl.org> has done for choral music. That's freaking amazing.
What problems does this idea generate?

-The need for web space. Xenharmonic wiki <http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com> can
host files up to 10MB each. Scores bigger than that could be broken up, I suppose.

-Most microtonal music isn't in the public domain. Obviously, scores published by giant
publishing companies couldn't be included directly. Maybe as links. It would be great if
any composer could participate whether or not they're into Creative Commons licenses. It
would be crucial to respect every composer's wishes for their own material.

-Some composers do this already. I really like Eve Beglarian's website
<http://evbvd.com>. An archive could link to composers' sites, or mirror the files, with
composers' permissions.

-In some cases, midi files are useful, either as mockups for ear training or as scores
themselves. Joe Monzo has done much of this. Does anyone know to what extent
copyright laws permit making midi files of published scores?

-If a score is made available, a piece is more likely to be performed. Composers might
want this, and they might not.

What else?

Who else would be into this?

I wouldn't mind *not* restricting this to microtonal music. But I do want to be able to find
what's microtonal and in what way it is.

Jacob

Jacob wrote:
> Look at what CPDL <www.cpdl.org> has done for choral music.
> That's freaking amazing.

Thanks for the link! You're aware of mutopia I'm sure.

http://www.mutopiaproject.org

-Carl

I like scores too Jacob. I would be very interested
in studying and looking at scores.

--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Jacob <tricesimoprimalist@...> wrote:
From: Jacob <tricesimoprimalist@...>
Subject: [MMM] brainstorm - microtonal score archive
To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 5:32 PM

Okay,

I like scores. When a piece of music wants to be performed repeatedly the same way, (or)

by people who weren't the originators of the piece, or when someone wants to study or

analyze a piece, it helps to have a score. Hooray performance, and hooray scores!

I want to perform and analyze more microtonal music. I could ask for a bunch of

composers personally to send me scores, I suppose. I would rather think that others

share this interest and would benefit from the creation of a (free) archive of microtonal

scores.

Look at what CPDL <www.cpdl.org> has done for choral music. That's freaking amazing.

What problems does this idea generate?

-The need for web space. Xenharmonic wiki <http://xenharmonic. wikispaces. com> can

host files up to 10MB each. Scores bigger than that could be broken up, I suppose.

-Most microtonal music isn't in the public domain. Obviously, scores published by giant

publishing companies couldn't be included directly. Maybe as links. It would be great if

any composer could participate whether or not they're into Creative Commons licenses. It

would be crucial to respect every composer's wishes for their own material.

-Some composers do this already. I really like Eve Beglarian's website

<http://evbvd. com>. An archive could link to composers' sites, or mirror the files, with

composers' permissions.

-In some cases, midi files are useful, either as mockups for ear training or as scores

themselves. Joe Monzo has done much of this. Does anyone know to what extent

copyright laws permit making midi files of published scores?

-If a score is made available, a piece is more likely to be performed. Composers might

want this, and they might not.

What else?

Who else would be into this?

I wouldn't mind *not* restricting this to microtonal music. But I do want to be able to find

what's microtonal and in what way it is.

Jacob

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