TransformingSheetMusic
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[edit] TRANSFORMING A SHEET MUSIC
Let me explain you how you can use a work of Bach, Beethoven or Chopin to create your own sheet of music; all what you need is to replace existing notes, rythms, measures and times … with your own material. When this process will be performed, nobody should be able to recognize original version. In a way, it's becoming yours, but it is time now to explain.
-first, let's go to Mutopia's website.
-let us download the mazurka opus 6 n°1 from Frederic Chopin.
-We open it with the text editor jEdit, version 4.3.1; on left you can see code lines and on right a pdf music file.
-We first examin datas and observe measure numbers printed in red (% 1, % 2, % 3 …)
-Then we select a lot of measures, in fact, as much as we want. On my own, I have kept only the first seven measures of each tessitura: soprano, alto, tenor & bass.
-we will be careful not to erase measures entitled "%0"(in red colour).
-Of course, at each transformation, we will click on the green quaver (croche in french) and verify that no error message has appeared.
-When we have rubbed all what we expected, we will change the whole notes, rhythms, key signature, opus, alterations ... in a such way than nobody could say where that score comes from. This new opus must be unrecognizable.
-If you want to edit your work, you must be very carefull and mention composer, file source, copyright … as described thurther on.
I hope you enjoyed this new way of writing music: it has, in fact, something to do with John Cage[1], Charles Ives[2], Marcel Duchamp[3], James Joyce, Mallarmé & Paul Valéry … See you soon
François-Xavier Jean [4]
© origine: Mutopia cf.compositeur & oeuvre: Chopin, Mazurka op 6, n°1.
fichier original: Petrucci Music Library cf. http://imslp.org/. (domain public).
disponible également sur: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1687
nature du fichier: Lilypond
source: G.Schirmer, 1894
transcription de Ryan Prince - cf. rprincerp@gmail.com © creative commons attribution 3.0
transformations: François-Xavier Jean © creative commons attribution 3.0
