Urs Liska <[email protected]> writes: > Janek and I have made some fuzz recently about that secret March 11, > and now's the time to disclose the great news: > > Our edition of Oskar Fried's songs was elected "BEST EDITION 2014" by > the German Music Publishers' Association, and we'll receive the award > at the Frankfurt Musikmesse on Friday! > > :-) :-) :-) > > I won't repeat everything you might be interested in, instead I > strongly suggest you read our blog post at > > http://lilypondblog.org/2014/03/oskar-fried-the-big-bang/ > > One important thing has to be said, though: > We intend to open up the edition and make its sources freely available > - > as soon as the publisher's expenses have been fully covered. For this > to become reality we really need your support. _Please_ also visit our > crowdfunding campain at http://igg.me/at/free-fried and _please_ > spread the word as widely as possible.
My congratulations! Completing this project using LilyPond to that kind of acclaim is of course quite an accomplishment. From previous blog posts we know that LilyPond has not really been used as a turnkey-ready tool here: lots of semi-manual work has gone into this project, leading to compelling results but also source code that is more tied into the particular version of LilyPond used here than desirable. The ultimate dream for LilyPond is that old LilyPond scores, like old wine, become better with age, with the printed score becoming more complex and more refined while its source code, when actively maintained, loses more and more tweaks and hacks until it just expresses the music. Now this edition starts out in award-winning quality of the printed score. It's a really big chance to be see how feasible it would be to have a score like that "age gracefully", namely produce good results with future versions of LilyPond. Projects like the "edition engraver" of Jan-Peter might provide helpful tools for tracking a score through various LilyPond versions. So it is very exciting that the authors, active members of LilyPond's development, are willing to making the score and its sources available under a free license once they can consider their upfront costs and efforts covered. While the GNU project is focused about providing the four software freedoms tantamount, namely the freedom to run software for any purpose, the freedom to study how a program works and change it to make it do what one wishes, the freedom to redistribute copies, and the freedom to improve a program and release improvements to the public, it is easy to see that similar freedoms are desirable for playing, adapting, and exchanging music. With the music industry having a tradition of employing copyrights for securing publishing monopolies reaching back several centuries, and with engraving arts getting forgotten because the current copyright durations have allowed the established publishers to rest on their laurels (or rather, their plates) for too long, getting an award-winning reference point for improving LilyPond would be certainly an inspiration and help. So be sure to check out the crowdfunding campaign. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
