Fascinating #folklore project: a #map of #folk tunes gathered by Oskar Kolberg, great ethnographer of 19th century, to listen and download. Mostly territories of Commonwealth of Both Nations (that is, today's #Poland, #Lithuania, #Belarus and #Ukraine), but also #Lusatia, #Slovakia, #Slovenia, #Croatia, #BosniaHerzegovina and #Serbia. Sadly, not linked to lyrics, music only, but still a delightful journey.

As Kolberg worked in 19th century, his works obviously do not contain recordings, but the map gives #MIDI, #MusicXML and #EsAC.

#ethnography #CommonwealthOfBothNation #RzeczpospolitaObojgaNarodów
The Spatial Index of Tunes in Oskar Kolberg’s Collection

#ScribesAndMakers 13. March: Shameless self-promotion day

Besides all my Open Source work (and the very occasional very tiny fanfiction attempt) I publish Free Sheet Music in digital editions, beautifully renderer as PDF, but also available as MusicXML and MIDI for conversion to Braille music notation as needed.

Voices from the choir et al.:

• "finally, legible tenor notes!" (everyone with bass clef allergy)
• "it’s easier on the eyes due to the larger size" (older ladies in choir)
• easy to transpose (few clicks)
• simple enough to make extra versions for the conductor and accompanist (closed score (two systems only, like for piano) with text below, so the pianist can follow the regie instructions)

https://mbsd.evolvis.org/music/free contains my Free Sheet Music contributions mostly from Public Domain scans (some more recent ones were made under permission from the composer/arranger); I also produced https://mbsd.evolvis.org/music/misc/ and dozens of pieces I cannot show because they are licenced works.

I do this for myself and share with the world, but I could imagine digitally engraving some sheet music for YOU for a small donation or something. (My speciality is vocal scores, but I can do piano accompaniment mostly, might need help with optimal distribution of notes to hands. Or just type in from a pre-existing score. I do need pitches, no aural transcriptions.)

Do you need to make a lead sheet?
Save some time and export the song from iReal Pro in MusicXML format.
You’ll have the form of the song and the chords already, just quickly add the melody.
More info on our website:
https://www.irealpro.com/news/exporting-to-midi-and-musicxml

Discovered #Audiveris https://audiveris.github.io/audiveris/ yesterday, an #OMR #OpticalMusicRecognition tool, that can transcribe your music sheets from PDF to #MusicXML which you can then use in tools like #musescore :)

And it's AWESOME!