Folks, I've just come across the incidental music to the original stage production of Peter Pan; or, The Boy who wouldn't Grow Up. Both Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=J-wQAAAAYAAJ) and the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/musictojmbarrie00barrgoog) seem to think this music, published in 1905, is in the public domain. (I have been unable to track down when the composer John Crook died, though; and I understand it'll need to be confirmed that he died earlier than 1944 before this can be added to Mutopia -- can anyone help here?)
At any rate, I've begun to re-typeset some of this in Lilypond with the intention of submitting this to Mutopia. I've forked the project at GitHub; see https://github.com/jcsalomon/MutopiaProject/commit/14e70804 I'm not at all certain I've got the header correct, and I'd appreciate some guidance. Here's what I've put down so far: \header { title = "The Arrival of the Crocodile" composer = "John Crook (18??–19??)" opus = "Peter Pan" date = "1905" style = "Incidental" source = "The Music to J. M. Barrie’s Successful Play Peter Pan, or, The Boy who wouldn’t Grow Up" maintainer = "Joel C. Salomon" maintainerEmail = "joelcsalo...@gmail.com" license = "Public Domain" mutopiatitle = "The Arrival of the Crocodile" mutopiaopus = "Peter Pan" mutopiacomposer = "CrookJ" mutopiainstrument = "Piano" } Questions: * I've created the new file at ftp/CrookJ/PeterPan/PP08_Arrival_of_the_Crocodile/PP08_Arrival_of_the_Crocodile.ly with the idea that the opus is "Peter Pan" and the individual pieces correspond to movements -- is this correct? (I know that I'll have to explicitly request the addition of the CrookJ directory; but I'm not yet ready for that step.) * The `date` and `source` fields are from the songbook as it was published in 1905. I don't know whether you want the IA URL or something similar here. * None of the choices for the `style` listed on the website really fit. Is it alright to create the category "Incidental" for this, or should it be shoehorned under "Classical"? --Joel Salomon _______________________________________________ Mutopia-discuss mailing list Mutopia-discuss@mutopiaproject.org http://lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com/mailman/listinfo/mutopia-discuss
