There is no limitation as to the file formats of the engraving files but they must be uploaded as part of a zip archive file. The typeset editions must be licensed under a CC license. The new typesets are nothing more than duplicates of the original editions but are treated as editions separate from the originals with the typesetter identified as the editor. Also, synthesized audio versions have been uploaded. The engraving files (MuseScore together with MusicXML files exported from MuseScore) have been included in zipped files. Stransky's 2 Andantes (perhaps not the same musical quality as a Brahms' symphony) contains PDFs of the original editions of the piano scores (no parts were ever issued) as well as typeset scores and parts. Perhaps the best way to answer would be to look at a page that incorporates the scanned original editions and newly typeset editions. Subscribe to our low-volume announcement email list, it's the best way to follow what we're up to!
organise music lovers to transcribe music scores of public domain opera and classical music into revisable, shareable, reusable digital files - and to give them away freely.Jim DeLaHunt, Executive Director & Founder
And, if there is a work page which shows off good coexistence between scanned, retypset, and revisable-form files, that would be good to highlight. In the step by step instructions, some examples of revisable-form formats would be illuminating. What would be really helpful is an expansion of the Score submission guide that talks about IMSLP policy on revisable-form scores, in contrast to the final-form scores that are most common here. The IMSLP:Typesetting Guidelines are great for us as we prepare the digital scores (proofreading! yes!) but don't have much to say about file formats.
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The IMSLP:Quick Guide to Score Submission says, "Please be sure all submissions are … in PDF format", which isn't very welcoming. I don't see clear guidance, but I get an implication that any non-PDF format is OK as long as it's packaged in a ZIP file. I read the IMSLP:Score submission guide, IMSLP:File formats, and IMSLP:Typeset Music formats. I expect that our initial target formats will be open interchange formats like MusicXML and MEI, but if those formats aren't expressive enough, we may also need to distribute scores in notation program file formats as well.ĭoes IMSLP welcome scores that are not scanned images of books, and not human-readable typeset output in PDF form? Is IMSLP a multi-format repository? If I have a digital score which is a close approximation of a scanned image file already in IMSLP, should I reflect that similarity in how I upload it? Or is it a completely independent edition as far as IMSLP is concerned? What do I do if I, say, want to upload both a MusicXML and an MEI format of the same score? Of course, IMSLP is one place we would like to place the resulting digital scores for distribution.
The project starts with IMSLP51456-PMLP01607-Beethoven_9.Symphonie_Breitkopf_Reinecke.pdf, and then eventually covers everything else in IMSLP. I'm embarked on a project of transcribing public-domain music scores into digital formats which are revisable, usable, and shareable - and then giving them away freely, with CC0 or CC-BY licensing.