After having updated to Ubuntu 22.04, I recently wanted to reactivate my music work environment. But when I installed Musescore-3 and let it play my music score, I got an ugly mess of background noises. And I could not add any soundfont. Obviously, I faced two obstacles that I had to overcome → …
Music, Open-Source of 2022-07-06 about FOSS, Musictools etc. with 0 comments
Under Ubuntu 22.04, Frescobaldi starts with an error: The area for displaying the music sheets says that Frescobaldi unexpectedly passes an argument of the type float to a function in qpageview /highlight.py respectively qpageview/shadow.py. Now, the user can ‘google’ for the cause – or read the following lines → …
Music, Open-Source of 2022-06-30 about Musictools etc. with 8 comments
Musicologists have a hard time – namely if they want to enrich their LaTeX-texts by score examples and harmony analyses. Up to now, there did not exist any study of whether and how that could be realized with free software. This article summarizes a paper – written in German – concerning the topic LaTeX and Musicology, which on the quiet has become a self-referential tutorial teaching what’s possible and what is not. → …
REPORT of 2022-04-24 about FOSS, Harmonies, LaTeX, Musictools, Open Source, Geisteswissenschaft etc. with 0 comments
Actually, every year I visit one of the Wies-Orchestra-Weeks realized by Werkgemeinschaft Musik. About some of them, I have already reported, most recently in 2016. But this year all these wonderful opportunities have been canceled – thanks to Covid-19. Personally, it has been sadly, but objectively it was necessary. But now? Completely without commonly making music? I had to find another option: → …
REPORT of 2020-09-18 about Violin, Musictools, Orchestra, Musik, Urlaub etc. with 0 comments
There was a gap: The extraordinary and marvelous music notation software LilyPond could not adequately deal with harmony analysis symbols. As a last consequence, musicologists could not really use it. But the gap was closed – by harmonyli.ly. Here comes a very first introduction → …
REPORT of 2019-12-07 about FOSS, Harmonies, Musictools, Open Source, LilyPond etc. with 0 comments
This article explains why it is a bit suboptimal to distribute LilyPond snippets under the terms of the GPL, even if one – as I do – loves to create, to share and/or to use free and open-source software. → …
INSPECTION of 2019-10-29 about Compliance, Musictools, Open Source etc. with 2 comments