mirabilos mirabilos
Germany , Bonn Registered since 05/18/2021
Im a computer programmer who likes music and has learnt about engraving, but Im not a musician, unfortunately, merely a performer. I like to produce good modern editions of old music. You can find the MuseScore versions of my scores at http//www.mirbsd.org/music/free/ and see http//www.mirbsd.org/music/free/licences/ for the full texts of the Free licences used.
Instruments : Vocal T/CT A2-A5 + Recorder soprano, alto, tenor + Ocarina English crossfingering Skills Interpreter, Publisher Grade none, unfortunately Followers members follow this artistScores
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New piece coming soon: Herbst (autumn)
Written on 2022-12-18 by mirabilos Today 2022-10-14, I got the
agreement from someone in our
choir to publish his
self-written piece of music
under liberal terms. That’s
the second time a living
composer did that, but the
first time it’s an original
piece, not just a
(substantial) arrangement of
an existing piece from the
Public Domain.
So, stay “tuned” for more
☻
Update 2022-12-18: it’s
almost finished, just needs
proofreading…
On the surprising use of rehearsal marks
Written on 2022-01-18 by mirabilos I got a curious request over
at the mu͒.com
score-sharing website
concerning my edition of
Händel’s Hallelujah
(from the Messiah),
https://www.free-scores.com/sh
eetmusic?p=aGzJOb16i1 over
here.
The commentor gave a
four-out-of-five-star rating,
commenting they liked it very
much, that it’s a faithful
reproduction (unlike most),
thanked for including measure
numbers (huh? isn’t that
common), and that they’d
upgrade it to five stars if I
included “the usual
rehearsal marks, as orchestral
conductors use them.”
Huh, what?
OK, the edition (from a German
publisher) I digitalised did
not have any rehearsal marks,
otherwise I’d certainly have
put them in. I asked the
commentor for their set of
rehearsal mark positions.
We know rehearsal marks, of
course, but I haven’t seen
any put with this particular
piece yet.
This started some research,
culminating in a rather
specific review of an
(English-language) Urtext
edition by a German publisher,
on a British book selling
portal, tearing it down for
not having “the” rehearsal
marks, so the vocalists
apparently cannot communicate
with the orchestra. Which
lacks measure numbers. (Ah
hah!)
From what I could find out,
there’s a set of rehearsal
marks A to G that are somewhat
standardised and that appear
near the end of the
19ᵗʰ
century (if not earlier), and
which (at least)
English-language orchestras
fully rely on, but which are
totally UNKNOWN in Germany.
(That, and Hallelujah is
№. 44 in
Händel’s (he lived in
the UK by then) holograph and
most English editions, but
№. 39 in most German
partituras. Apparently,
there’s a formal edition of
Händel’s entire works,
historical-critical, which
tacks some recitativos on the
tail of the previous numbered
movement; the traditional
Novello numbers have more
distinction but not a fully
standardised ordering. And
there are alternative
movements, made for specific
performances.)
Huh. Okay. So, I ended up
including measure numbers
(which we use anyway), the
“apparently usual” English
rehearsal marks (to facilitate
international cooperation),
and I always include an
ambitus for the vocal parts as
well (this is a thing of mine,
as this is otherwise an
Ancient Music feature, but it
helps me to more quickly see
which parts I can sing and
how, given a wide vocal
ambitus but unusual
tessitura).
I also took the chance to
update it as much as possible
to the latest v2 style of
mine. This score is engraved
rather tightly, so the
accompanying relayout was
still quite some amount of
work, and it keeps the
slightly smaller spatium.
Redoing this in v3 would have
been rather too much effort
for what few spare time I have
between $dayjob (in IT/CS, not
in music), the cat, hobbies,
the cat, family/household, the
cat, choir… you get it
☻
I hope the reader is
similarily delighted by the
updates to my music editions.
Personally, I was most
delighted by the commentor’s
note that it’s a faithful
reproduction. Making mistakes
by hurrying or other accidents
is my worst fear. I do not
have anyone to read over my
editions once I did them (once
before putting in the final
clefs, to easier compare;
another time the final layout
to look for overlaps, bad page
turns, slurs/ties/dynamics,
etc.) and one cannot find
one’s own errors with
sufficient chance. Volunteers
welcome! (Sorry, can’t pay
for this, I’m not getting
paid either.) mu͒.com page for
Hallelujah
Explanation for the MuseScore .org vs. .com problems
Written on 2021-08-09 by mirabilos In
https://bernardgreenberg.com/M
useScore.html BSG, who has
since left both MuseScore
sites, explains a bit on the
history of both, the
differences between them, and
the problems with either.
I just have one thing to add:
since a while, MuseScore.*org*
is also no longer
volunteer-driven; for example,
“management” has decided
to do no further 3.x release
despite over one hundred
bugfix commits piling up on
one of the volunteers’
github branches. Instead,
people are supposed to wait
for MuseScore 4, which is
expected (as banana
software —R
02;ripens at the
customer’s —&
;#8202;of course) no earlier
than the end of this year,
will again break the layout
(and possible tons of other
things) of existing scores,
will move core functionality
from the Free/libre MuseScore
application into merely gratis
but nōn-Free plugins,
has had multiple copyright
violations over the course of
its development, has had
“management” outright lie,
and has a number of other
questionable things that make
even the volunteers
second-guess it.
I guess, the same way as we
have to have the last
MuseScore 2 version around for
scores created with versions
older than 3, we’ll also
need a MuseScore 3 version
handy even when MuseScore 4 is
released. With no support or
possibility to make a bugfix
release to make it even
compile with current Qt
versions, basically everyone
does their own thing. (I’m
backporting tons of stuff to
the Debian packages; fixes,
but also e.g. the new MScore
notational font. Newer
soundfonts are packaged
already anyway.)
The question is, which
version. I personally was
totally fucked up by MuseScore
3.3, following 3.2.3 (the
first actually *usable* 3.x
version; see, banana
software!), which broke the
muscle memory of how notes are
entered. The new way is
supposedly easier for newbies,
but they didn’t have to
remove the old way now, did
they? (This is also where
management told me that they
get more _new_ users per month
than _total_
nōn-Win/Mac users, so
existing users aren’t
important to them. Yes, I was
told that outright.)
So, I’m using 3.2.3, and
because my volunteer time is
also limited, the Debian
package is also at 3.2.3 (with
a hundred bugfixes
backported).
Now I’m wondering whether to
backport more, or whether to
re-add the old note input
method to newer 3.x versions.
The latter won’t be seen by
anyone not using the
Debian/PPA packages, though,
as we can’t have any new
version. Sucks. "Why BSG left"
Something wrong with musescore.com (part 3)
Written on 2021-08-09 by mirabilos So, apparently, I had been
banned by accident, and it’s
restored now. Huh. (I only
heard the reason (by accident)
when it came up in a .org
forum post (where people were
missing BSG) though, the
support response didn’t
mention it.)
So, now I can upload my scores
to everywhere again. But
first, off to choir rehearsal!
Something wrong with musescore.com (part 2)
Written on 2021-08-08 by mirabilos I just found out that my
profile page
https://musescore.com/mirabilo
s/ pretends “This user is
banned due to violation of
Community Guidelines”.
This seems to be a bug
somewhere. I got no
notification of anything I
violated *or* of having been
banned, so I can only assume a
software bug mistakenly marks
users as banned for no reason.
Huh. *shrug*
The former “community”
site is worsening still. They
updated their Terms of
Service, but not to fix the
problems I pointed out years
ago, no… they added more
problems, the worst-looking is
that users are now supposed to
“assume all responsibility
for compliance with all laws
and regulations of the United
States”… which is
laughable considering the
works are uploaded from all
over the world, many faithful
editions of PD works not
copyrightable anyway, the site
is operated from Belgium and
the holding sits in Russia.
Silent update, too. At
https://twitter.com/Knoblauchk
eks/status/1424201637938216964
I wondered whether this is
even allowed with Creative
Commons licences. (I also
wonder if the clause is even
valid… you can’t just put
_anything_ into AGBs with
private individuals. I
certainly also never granted
them the right to impose such
restrictions on content of
mine.)
Hah, and they fucked up the
section numbering AGAIN, while
also fixing some of the
section numbering fuckups from
earlier. Does nobody proofread
these things? They have a
lawyer (who contacted me years
ago when I reported the
problems, which incidentally
are the same GitHub had at
that time and quickly fixed).
Hmm, given I never heard back
from that lawyer, maybe they
*had* one?
It looks more and more like
that site is emphasising the
“former” more than the
“community”. A pity.
Now I can’t publish all my
scores _here_ either, but most
of them. It’s just bad a
large userbase won’t find
them as easily… ToS diff
Something wrong with musescore.com
Written on 2021-08-06 by mirabilos Something bad is going on on
the former MuseScore
“community” site. My
profile picture is gone; I
cannot open new threads or
reply in threads any more,
only post comments, which go
away after a few hours though;
I can only see my overall
statistics but not the
per-score statistics; …
I think they did something
stupid.
I’m self-publishing anyway,
and I uploaded most of my
sheet music to this site
already. Too bad for the
visibility and what remained
of the community of half a
decade ago, but… meh…
Uploaded most of my Free Sheet Music here!
Written on 2021-05-27 by mirabilos I’ve uploaded most of my
Free Sheet Music (most of
which originated from IMSLP,
and much of which I also
uploaded to the MuseScore
former-community site) to
free-scores.com now.
Unfortunately, I can only
upload PDF, MP3 and MIDI files
here, so you’ll have to
visit my own webserver to get
the original MuseScore files
(and MusicXML exports and
automatically extracted
metadata). (I should upload
more of the modern editions I
created back to IMSLP, too, I
know…)
I’m still waiting for the
moderator to create the
missing composers, then I can
add that to the remaining
scores so they can get
published here.
See
http://www.mirbsd.org/music/li
cences/ for the full texts of
the various Free (libre)
licences used.
Enjoy, and don’t hesitate to
give feedback, especially if I
made any mistakes… mirabilos’ Free Sheet Music
(self-hosted)