[gcompris-devel] testers needed for new music activities in GCompris

[Beth Hadley]

Hi Peter.

Thank you very much for your comments and the German Christmas songs. I was
very pleased to receive your sheet music link, and I have selected a simple
melody (Macht hoch die Tür) to use in GCompris. I have sent a screenshot of
the melody in GCompris to your email address (I don't like sending
attachments to mailing lists!) I have also created a new wiki page so that
GNOME contributors can add their own melodies and monitor the status of
melodies in GCompris: https://live.gnome.org/GComprisMelodies

The German project to document these German Christmas melodies is
phenomenal and I commend their efforts! I am always in favor of more
symbolic music entering the public domain!

Also, our translators should be able to translate the lyrics.

Thanks so much!
~Beth

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Peter Albrecht <px79 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello Beth,
>
> wow! Looks like a lot of work. I only had time to look at
> the screenshots and fly over the documentaion, so far. But
> this looks really good. (Documentation is really extensive!
> Great!)
> Thank you for this!
>
> On 18.08.2012 07:03, Beth Hadley wrote:
> > feature to load "pre-saved" melodies. I'm trying to collect melodies from
> > around the world! So please send me melodies from your country, all I
> need
> > is the name of the melody, country of origin, lyrics, and melody line
> (as a
> > picture, text, or any format I can read).
>
> If you are interessted in German christmas songs, maybe the
> following will be helpful:
>
> >
> http://data.musikpiraten-ev.de/public/weihnachtslieder/singen-im-advent-2011.pdf
>
> It is a collection of melody lines of German christmas
> songs. Those songs are so old (creator died over 70 years
> ago), that they gain status of "gemeinfrei"
> (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinfrei). This means  one
> can use them without getting troubles with German copyright
> authorities.
> The melody lines itself were created by the association
> "Musikpiraten e.V.", with the explizit wish to share them
> for free. Even commercial use is allowed. But they don't use
> a common license (like Creative Commons).
> I am _no_ lawyer, which could tell about international
> copyright details. I'm already having difficulties to
> translate this into English. So please, use at own risk.
>
> The link to the project homepage: (German)
> > http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de/weihnachtslieder/2011
>
> And a link to a news-report about this project: (German)
> >
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Singen-im-Advent-Gema-freie-Weihnachtslieder-1385979.html
> (heise.de is the German version of http://www.h-online.com)
>
> I'm sorry that I could not find any english documentation
> about this project.
>
> Regards,
>         Peter Albrecht
>
>
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