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NAME
       Mutopia project - manifesto

DESCRIPTION
       Random ranting about the Mutopia project, aka "Music To
       the People."

       This is the ultimate goal which I want to accomplish using
       LilyPond and mudela.

WHY
       Music publishers make lots of money out of selling sheet
       music which is in the public domain (the composers died a
       long time ago). It is usually prohibited to xerox the
       sheet music.  Publishers have two arguments to justify
       this policy: the high prices are there to guarantee
       diversity (keeping lots of it in stock is expensive), and
       to encourage new work being composed.

       This is bad. Storing a Mudela file takes almost no space
       at all, and if sheet music could be had for free, then it
       would be much easier obtain less famous music.  These
       composers have died long ago, and not having their music
       available only discourages people from experimenting with
       it.  You deserve to get public domain music for free (zero
       cents)

WHAT
       For literature, the project Gutenberg has an archive of
       public domain literary works. For music, this does not
       exist yet.

       We also need an archive of public domain sheet music; this
       is what we call The Mutopia Project.

STATUS
       This project is still in its vapourware stage, so don't
       ask questions unless you want to put in effort into The
       GNU Music project.

       Just as an aside, the LilyPond package includes the
       following music:

       o   J.S. Bach, Das Wohltemperierte Clavier I: C major
           Prelude & Fugue, C minor fugue.  Solo cello suites:
           suite II, menuetto (alto version).  Six small
           preludes: some preludes.

       o   F. Schubert, St\"andchen (Serenade) "Leise flehen
           meine Lieder"

       o   Tarquinio Merula, La Gallina a 2 violini





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