Re: Mutopia improvements

[Michael David Crawford]

Hi,

Your contribution guidelines don't seem to allow for the possibility 
that the original composer could be still alive, if he has placed his 
music under a Creative Commons license.

There is a growing body of modern Creative Commons music, but so far 
very little of it is available as sheet music - just audio recordings. 
I think The Mutopia Project could do well to get those who CC-license 
their music to supply sheet music as well.

Michael David Crawford
address@hidden
http://www.geometricvisions.com/

Chris Sawer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies for the cross-posting - but I thought this may be of interest 
> to a wider audience.
>
> Over the last few weeks we have been making a number of improvements to 
> the Mutopia website. Mutopia is a growing collection of "open source" 
> sheet music, all of which is free to download, print out, perform and 
> distribute. We currently have over 800 pieces, and all of it is typeset 
> using LilyPond.
>
> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
>
> Improvements include the following:
>
> - Visual refresh of the website using CSS
> - Clearer and simpler front page
> - Clearer guidelines for contributing
> - Improved search algorithm
> - RSS feed for staying up-to-date with new contributions
> - Printed editions of some pieces available for purchase through Lulu
>
> Thanks to Stewart Holmes for the Lulu service, and to Conrad Irwin for 
> help with the CSS.
>
> All feedback is welcome - either to me personally, or to the Mutopia 
> discussion mailing list:
>
> http://lists.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mutopia-discuss 
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris