From 0caa7ed41e5f3fb6e776b4230cf235b960ea7ec4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fred Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:49:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] lilypond-0.1.7 --- Documentation/mutopia.pod | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/mutopia.pod diff --git a/Documentation/mutopia.pod b/Documentation/mutopia.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bdefc53132 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/mutopia.pod @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +=head1 NAME + +Mutopia project - manifesto + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +Random ranting about the Mutopia project, aka "Music To the People." +[Not yet finished, so this is unpolished] + +=head1 WHY + +Music publishers make lots of money out of selling sheet music which +is in the public domain (the composers died a long time ago). It is +usually prohibited to xerox the sheet music. Publishers have two +arguments to justify this policy: the high prices are there to guarantee +diversity (keeping lots of stock is expensive), and to encourage new +work being composed. + +This is bad. Storing a Mudela file takes almost no space at all, and +if sheet music could be had for free, then it would be much easier +obtain less famous music. These composers have died long ago, and not +having their music available only discourages people from +experimenting with it. You deserve to get public domain music for +free (zero cents) + +=head1 WHAT + +For literature, the project Gutenberg has an archive of public domain +literary works. For music, this does not exist yet. + +We also need an archive of public domain sheet music; this is what we +call The Mutopia Project. + + + -- 2.39.5