Re: [Mutopia-discuss] I've re-created a ly file for Scott Joplin's The Easy Winners

2018-06-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 15/06/2018 20:38, Knute Snortum wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:34 AM Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >> You forgot to answer about the lack of "Ragtime" category :-) > > I don't know what it would take to create a new category. I'd be all for it > but I don't have that authority. https:

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] I've re-created a ly file for Scott Joplin's The Easy Winners

2018-06-16 Thread David Kastrup
Knute Snortum writes: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:34 AM Shachar Shemesh > > wrote: > >> Having said that, and assuming you're using the same source as me for >> the notes (the yellow book bundling all of Joplin's works), the >> editorial at the beginning claims they have already incorporated al

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] I've re-created a ly file for Scott Joplin's The Easy Winners

2018-06-15 Thread Knute Snortum
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:34 AM Shachar Shemesh wrote: > You forgot to answer about the lack of "Ragtime" category :-) > I don't know what it would take to create a new category. I'd be all for it but I don't have that authority. > On 15/06/2018 16:08, Knute Snortum wrote: > > I would frown up

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] I've re-created a ly file for Scott Joplin's The Easy Winners

2018-06-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
You forgot to answer about the lack of "Ragtime" category :-) On 15/06/2018 16:08, Knute Snortum wrote: > I would frown upon changing the pitch of a note that "sounds wrong" to you > unless you have some evidence to back it up. I would want the piece exactly > how Joplin wrote it. A footno

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] I've re-created a ly file for Scott Joplin's The Easy Winners

2018-06-15 Thread Knute Snortum
I'll answer as best I can; I am not the final authority on policies at Mutopia. The feeling a get from past discussions is that in general rewriting a piece is frowned upon -- although I can totally understand the intention. Maybe there could be two submissions for the same piece? I've seen that

Re: [Mutopia-discuss] I've re-created a ly file for Scott Joplin's The Easy Winners

2018-06-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 15/06/2018 10:12, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > The existing file for Scott Joplin's "The Easy Winners" had a few mismatches > with the original publication. When I tried to fix those, I found that the > way the file was using voices made it almost uneditable. > > So I re-created, from the o

[Mutopia-discuss] I've re-created a ly file for Scott Joplin's The Easy Winners

2018-06-15 Thread Shachar Shemesh
The existing file for Scott Joplin's "The Easy Winners" had a few mismatches with the original publication. When I tried to fix those, I found that the way the file was using voices made it almost uneditable. So I re-created, from the original notes, a setup for it. Now I've got a few questi