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

[Peter Albrecht]

Hello Beth,

I am honored and very happy that my contribution was accepted!

Thank you! :)

   Peter

P.S.: Your screenshot looks very nice. I definitely have to
test your activities in the next days!

On 20.08.2012 23:03, Beth Hadley wrote:
> 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