Re: bach chorales

[Ph. Hezaine]

Le 04/06/2020 à 10:04, Urs Liska a écrit :
> Hi Phil,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 04.06.2020, 11:52 +0200 schrieb Ph. Hezaine:
> > On 6/1/20, Rudi Guggt <fristu@web.de> wrote:
> >
> > > > > There are some mistakes in the titles of the Bach-Chorales. Are
> > > > > you
> > > > > curious, what I have found?
> > > > >
> > > > > #9, #102, #343 and #361: Ermuntre dich, mein schwa_ch_er Geist
> > > > > #45 and #370: Kommt her zu mir, spricht Gottes S_o_hn
> > > > > #50: old: In allen meine_n_ Taten
> > > > > #101: Herr Christ, der einge Gottes-S_o_hn
> > > > >       or: Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gott's Sohn
> > > > > #148: Danket dem Herrn, heu_t_ und allzeit
> > > > > #150: Welt, ade! ich bin dein m_ü_de
> > > > >
> > > > > cheers
> > > > > Rudi
> >
> > Hello Rudi
> >
> > I take due note of your proofreading. Really relevant. Thanks.
> > I don't know when I will upgrade the sources to 2.21 exactly but
> > it's
> > all right!
>
> If you are planning to update this repository I would be happy if you
> could coordinate this work with what we have started on Gitlab
> recently. We did not set up this repository simply because we wanted to
> make your great work more accessible but to actually *build* upon it.
>
> Concretely I want to restructure the code so the voices are
> independently available and then build an infrastructure around it to
> allow more flexible typesetting, e.g.
>
>   * choosing between modern and old clefs
>   * choose between real score or piano score
>   * select voices to be engraved/hidden
>   * allow additional analysis layers (harmonic analysis, figured bass,
>     others) to be added
>
> This will make it a terrific resource for pedagogical/academic work. I
> have been lobbying for LilyPond in the musicological and music theory
> communities for quite some time, and one of the main obstacles
> (particularly in the latter) is the need to give them something that
> can be used immediately (because the horizon of the average music
> theory teacher is typically "I do have to provide material to my four
> courses tomorrow"). Having a corpus like the Bach chorales readily
> available seems like a really great incentive to dangle in front of
> their noses. I hope to find the time to write a Frescobaldi extension
> for this repertoire, maybe even with an interface for letting students
> write their own solutions right into the material.
>
> So far I have not touched the files uploaded in the Gitlab repository
> because you had indicated there are some updates available or pending.
> But it would be nice to know when it will be suitable to start with
> substantial modifications of the input files. Maybe you could apply
> your updates directly to that repository?
>
> Best
> Urs
>
> > Phil.

Hi Urs

I totally aggree with you, it's exactly the reason why I typeset the 
chorals.
First, keep in mind the license Art Libre give you all the freedom you 
need but keep the license. At the time i typeset this work (2011), this 
license was more advanced and protective from Europe as regards to the 
Berne Convention and was supported by the FSF. Now it is equivalent to 
CC-by-SA if i'm not mistaken.
Secondly, for the update, apart a few minor thinness it's the freeway 
(whithout toll) from 2.14.1 to 2.21 (thanks convert-ly). But I still 
have to do the Rudi's corrections. Not a big deal but there are several 
extensions of the Bach-Chorales release. Have you hear of:

J. S. BACH
*****
ETUDES D'ANAMORPHOSES :
LES DIFFÉRENTES VERSIONS
D'UN CHORAL CHANTÉ.
which is a derivative works of mine from the sources.

And as well:
"Les colles de Bach - The Bach's School (You've got me, there)"
for GNU Solfege.
released under Free Art License.

All these releases aim to pedagogical uses. May be you'll be interested.

I don't know how to use Gitlab and i'm not in a good condition for now.
May be I can send you (privately) the sources-ly and midis when updated 
and fell free to do your free thinking.
Let me tell you in passing that, amazingly enough, i never cease to be 
surprising of the brilliant creativity (invention) of Bach at the 
service of an invention (fiction). (Its not a troll).

P.S.
May be it will be more difficult (perhaps impossible) to update the 
whole pdf done with latex.
Be patient and keep me up-to-date.
Cheers.
Phil.