I have a project called "Mr. Beany's Bitty Band." We released an album called "Shipping Containers" back in July. (It is CC-BY.)
It's filk set to traditional (public domain) hymn tunes. It's also an art art concept album about copyright. (The premise is a lonely space traveler thinks about what might be in store for the colony ship when they get there, but due to copyright restrictions only music made before 1923 is available on-board. So, he combines the two.) The album is released Creative Commons Attribution and extras include a full song book. The Songbook is on GitHub. https://github.com/mrbeany/shipping-containers It was entirely written in LilyPond, so there's a single LilyPond command to use to build the book. If LilyPond didn't support includes, I'd just take the twelve songs and find spots for them in Mutopia and that would be it. However, the songs have been broken up to tune, lyrics and structure. (With manual staff-break tweaks happening in structure, not tune.) This allows the use of variant tunes, as well as meaning there's a single file to change to tweak the lyrics. A couple of the songs use this break down to create a more traditional verse/chorus/bridge structure out of separate hymns. In addition to the piano+vocal structure used in the Letter and A4 versions of the Songbook, there's a "fakebook" style that just has the melody and verses, a "hymn" style that has the treble and bass staffs with the lyrics in the middle, and a "midi" pseudo-book that produces two full-length versions of each of the songs but no actual PDFs. Am I correct in believing that the preferred file structure for Mutopia is a single self-contained file, so for inclusion, I'd be taking the canonical forms of each of the songs and using them? (They were all based upon two-staff SATB hymns, so that's the canonical form. I'm happy to do that and provide a link back to the album's GitHub page.) I've been doing 50/90 (50 Songs in 90 Days) <http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/> and the output of that will be 3 ~15 track albums. Each of the songs was based upon a public domain Christmas tune. (One album of Santa-filled Christmas music, one for Halloween carols, and another Kid's album.) Each of the 45 songs will have LilyPond source associated with it. If the standard is one file per song, I can plan for that with these albums and go for something more complicated when planning a song book. Again, am I correct in believing that there is a strong preference for a single LilyPond file per song? Thanks! Steven Black
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