> I've put the music from Michael Maier's "Atalanta Fugiens" (1617-18) on > my website; it's more or less a song cycle on making the Philosopher's > Stone, for three voices, based on a plainsong cantus firmus.
I've already replaced that version - humans needn't bother replacing the earlier one; this was because of a gotcha I thought of relating to the Tune Finder. The problem is that a typical pair of alternate titles from that collection is: T:Appone mulieri super mammas bufonem, ut ablactet eum, et moriatur mulier, sitque bufo grossus de lacte T:Put a toad to the breasts of a woman, and nurse it; the woman may die, but the toad grows big from the milk which is not exactly the sort of thing anybody would think of typing into a search field unless they already knew the collection very well (and Maier's Latin has a few spelling eccentricities that make life even more difficult for would-be string matchers). So I added an extra title to the first piece (conveniently already labelled with a zero X: field) which includes the string "Atalanta Fugiens", so now anybody who enters that will find the collection. This might be worth doing for other instances where people have encoded entire collections - if the first entry is of the form X:0 T:Skye Collection then the Tune Finder, as I understand it, will automatically download the entire file. And if somebody enters "Skye Collection" as a search string that'll most likely be what they want to happen. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
