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Comment: Free iPad app for Open Goldberg Variations (Score 1) 110

From the Open Goldberg Variations blog: "iPad owners can now enjoy the Open Goldberg Variations, played by Kimiko Ishizaka, while following the score on their iPad. MuseScore has released a free iPad app that is dedicated to the music, the score, and the history of the Open Goldberg Variations project. Have fun!" Link: http://bit.ly/LqR6SQ
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+ - MusOpen Releases Open Source Classical Music Stems->

Submitted by VVrath
VVrath writes "Following Monday's story about MuseScore releasing its open source recording of the Goldberg Variations, the Musopen project has released ProTools files (http://archive.org/details/musopen) from its open source recording project. The final edited recordings are still being worked on but it seems we're living in very interesting times regarding open source classical music."
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Comment: Re:free != easy (Score 1) 110

Lilypond does not have MusicXML export, so anything you make in Lilypond is not exportable via the sheet music exchange standard. This is different for this project: you get the Goldberg Variations in MuseScore source format and MusicXML, and many other formats (pdf, midi, ...) So whatever notation software you use (MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale, ...), you'll be able to import the Goldberg score and adapt it to your needs.
Music

+ - "Open Source Bach" project completed; score and recording now online -> 1

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rDouglass
rDouglass writes "MuseScore, the open source music notation editor, and pianist Kimiko Ishizaka have released a new recording and digital edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The works are released under the Creative Commons Zero license to promote the broadest possible free use of the works. The score underwent two rounds of public peer review, drawing on processes normally applied to open source software. Furthermore, the demands of Bach's notational style drove significant advancements in the MuseScore open source project. The recording was made on a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial piano in the Teldex Studio of Berlin. Anne-Marie Sylvestre, a Canadian record producer, was inspired by the project and volunteered her time to edit and produce the recording. The project was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign that was featured on Slashdot in March 2011."
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Canada

+ - Open Source could be half the solution to the Quebec's student protests. -> 2

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HommeDeJava
HommeDeJava writes "Today, three professionnal associations which are promoting Open Source software join their voices to claim that use of Open Source software could cover half the increase of tuition fees and put and end to the student's crisis in Québec. (http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/351050/logiciels-libres)

Since more than 100 days Québec, about 150,000 students, roughly one-third of Quebec's post-secondary student population, are boycotting their courses and manifesting against increasing tuition fees and political corruption.
( http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Quebec+student+protests+what+keeping+them+motivated/6684697/story.html)

At the same time, the Charest Liberal government's has announced it will upgrade Microsoft licenses for about 1.4 billion dollars. (http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-quebecoise/201203/30/01-4511088-quebec-doit-reduire-sa-dependance-a-microsoft-dit-le-pq.php)"
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Music

+ - MuseScore makes Open Goldberg Variations available->

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rDouglass
rDouglass writes "MuseScore, the open source music notation project, has created a new edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations, and a set of online tools that facilitates the public scholarly review of the work. The review period is intended to help the MuseScore team identify any problems with the score. The score can be viewed and played in the browser. Annotations and discussions for each part of the score enable review and corrections. Downloadable versions include MuseScore, MusicXML, MIDI, mp3, or PDF. Video scores (YouTube videos that are synchronized to play with the score) let the score be viewed in the context of individual performances. MuseScore is a partner in the Open Goldberg Variations Project, a crowd-funded effort to place a definitive score and recording of the work into the public domain in such a way as to make them widely and freely available, without usage restrictions (Creative Commons Zero). German pianist Kimiko Ishizka will produce the studio recording of the work later this year. Funding continues on Kickstarter until June 3, 2011."
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Music

+ - Open Source Bach - Copyright-Free Goldbergs-> 2

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rDouglass
rDouglass writes "An open source music notation software (MuseScore) and an award winning pianist (Kimiko Ishizaka) are raising money to create a new score and a new recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations. They will release both works to the public domain (copyright-free) using the Creative Commons Zero tool. This bypasses usual copyright protections that are given to each published edition of the score and each individual recording of the piece, and addresses a gap in the availability of free (gratis/libre) versions of the work. MuseScore scores are XML based and are thus like the source code for music. They can also be embedded into websites and linked with YouTube videos, creating rich multimedia experiences. The Kickstarter project has begun recently and $4,000 has been raised."
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