Early days guitar forums used plain text for their tabs, before their enshitification 🫠
Alexandria just deals with plain text, so any type of music markup could work.
So then imagine something like this
which renders into sheet music, with a player that turns that notation into some form of midi playback.
It's in the name, NOTES and other stuff 🎹🎹🎹🌝
Nostr is destined for this
Would you use it?
Well I'm using that other site now to get sheet music, so maybe. But I don't know anything to contribute.
Lots of public domain music notation tho, could be great on alexandria
Got this one recently to (try and) work through:
https://archive.org/details/Altoonsanthclasspian/page/n4/mode/1up
To contribute. it would be trying to convert any public domain works into that abc notation I mentioned. That gets the notes to not only display nicely, but to play the notes out loud.
Hmm I wonder if that has been automated. I was looking at musescore uploads and saw this, seems like it accepts pdfs etc but this may cause mistakes. They have an in-house file thing 🤔
Writing them out would be quite the task.
This seems like a good resource. Do you know what this Lilypond thing is they mention?
Seems to be the same thing you mentioned?
But yeah if Alexandria accepts these .ly files, or otherwise copy them, mutopiaproject has 2000+ public domain compositions that you can add to Alexandria 👀
On second look the annotation and Lilypond seem slightly different maybe? I'm not sure I know enought about this 🤔
Hmm seems to be an old project and incomplete 🤔
I was able to get an llm to convert https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=2247 into something that is supported by the converter, copied the output and its playable in alexandria 🤔
It seems that lilipond is much more comprehensive, aiming to be something for professional music engraving. Abc notation (and the tool abcjs I'm using) is meant to be interactive, and works in the browser with playback.
https://v.nostr.build/z0uVo9eeXJNQJvu1.mp4
Converting from pdf would be amazing, but that's much more comprehensive than I can do. We can at least get the basics running, though.
I asked Grok lol, so not sure how accurate this is:
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_bd3112f2-f841-452d-bf82-ba49bd5bc338
Having a dig around and I fear I M totally out of my depth lol
But just in case you understand:
https://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/
Scroll down to 'indexes of ABC tunes', lots are dead links.
Some still work tho:
And I assume you know this:
Not sure how to tell what is public domain from this, I think it has to be arrangements that predate 1929 or something? I don't know.
Some cool collections (this one seems to have a creative commons 1 'universal' licence)
Last post on this lol, I promise. I was looking at some of the collections and links.
There's this cool website that seems to be still active which is discussion board for sharing Irish folk songs, lots in ABCnotation. This would be a very cool sort of community to onboard to alexandria
So, there's a lot we can work with then 😎
Just uploaded ~70 Jigs (if they all published) from The Nottingham Music Database.
Seems like there is an active community around especially folk tunes ABCnotation. Very cool.
https://blog.afandian.com/2018/02/a-decade-of-folk-tune-finder/
