[abcusers] Re: contributing packages on sourceforge

2000-12-05 Thread ggonza
Hope you don't mind; I'm cc'ing my reply to the sourceforge list. Ideally some of this should go into a web page at the sourceforge site. that's OK. Great. It sounds like abcm2ps might be the most mature of the abc2ps family at this point. perhaps it is. jaabc2ps is also *very* good, and

[abcusers] Melodic Index

2000-12-05 Thread John Henckel
Does anyone know of a tool to index MIDI files according to melody? I have thousands of MIDI files and I want to be able to index them according to the "do-re-mi" notes in the melody. Most of the MIDI files are simple SATB arrangements. Also, does anyone know of a "name that tune" service

Re: [abcusers] Melodic Index

2000-12-05 Thread John Chambers
Frank Nordberg wrote: | John Henckel wrote: | Does anyone know of a tool to index MIDI files according to melody? I have | thousands of MIDI files and I want to be able to index them according to | the "do-re-mi" notes in the melody. Most of the MIDI files are simple SATB | arrangements. |

Re: [abcusers] Melodic Index

2000-12-05 Thread Frank Nordberg
Richard Robinson wrote: ... There is something like that with my stuff, http://www,leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ A typo there, Richard: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ ^ Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

[abcusers] Copyrights

2000-12-05 Thread John Henckel
Well now JC has piqued my interest. I can't see how a person can copyright happy birthday. That's crazy. Music should be like software. Suppose I write a computer program in Perl that compresses files. I start to sell my program. If I copyright the program, no one else is allowed to sell

Re: [abcusers] Melodic Index

2000-12-05 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Frank Nordberg wrote: Richard Robinson wrote: ... There is something like that with my stuff, http://www,leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ A typo there, Richard: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ Oops. Ta :) -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged

Re: [abcusers] Melodic Index

2000-12-05 Thread Mark Vandenbroeck
I heard Michael Jackson bought the rights a while ago. Isn't that correct ? Mark Frank Nordberg wrote: John Chambers wrote: ... Happy Birthday, which doesn't seem to be on the Web in ABC form. I'd add it, but I happen to know that it's under copyright. (Two points to the first

Re: [abcusers] Melodic Index

2000-12-05 Thread John Chambers
Mark writes: | I heard Michael Jackson bought the rights a while ago. Isn't that correct ? That's what was reported a couple of years ago. A brief hunt turns up some curious history of the tune. It was written in 1893, under the tiele "Good Morning to All", as a children's school song. You'd

Re: [abcusers] Copyrights

2000-12-05 Thread John Chambers
Frank Nordberg writes: | | It's not as simple as that. Some composer sat down for months - maybe | years - working had to create that tune, and it's only fair that he or | she should get some compensation for the work ;) Heh, heh. Actually, the original composer and lyricist were two