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Is there an IMSLP iPad app? I hate to say it - not being a Steve Jobs fan - but they could have been made for reading IMSLP scores. I'm actually well on the way to finishing an iPad app that uses IMSLP content. You'll be able to * browse by composer (and search by composer name) * filter by tag/nat...

EDIT: changed the quote attribution . Sorry KGill! I do believe KGill agrees those opinions. Not really, actually...many compositions from the Baroque era (much of Bach included) could be considered 'variations on the same theme' (as I believe I put it several years ago) to a certain extent, but th...

Very excellent!

I grabbed it, and can parse it using a standard JSON library. This is exactly what I need!

Thanks very much for the excellent work.

imslp wrote:The API system has undergone an overhaul; the new genretags function should address your problem. See the IMSLP:API page.

Hi Folks, I'm working with the API, and need a good way to display Tags. I've found the Special:GenreParserInfo page, which includes a table captioned "Tags", which has the headings "Tag Name", "# of", and a 3rd column with tag descriptions. It's almost exactly what I n...

*grin* nice point, hamstray. I'm just getting my slide scanner up and running. The MS is arranged as partbooks, of course. How do people suggest it be organized on the Wiki? I am thinking it should have a page for itself, of course. It would be optimal to have a separate file for each piece/part, bu...

Anyone have the Leclair Violin Concerti, preferably scans of the originals? Any of the collections would be cool, but I've got my heart set on Op. 7....

Thanx!

Boccaccio,

I'm curious, what's your interest in the manuscript? I've definitely got it on my "to-do" list to scan it in.

imslp.org responds to pings, but not to HTTP Requests, from what I see...

The Rost Manuscript. Contains hundreds and hundreds of instrumental pieces from early baroque italian and German composers (Schmelzer, Kerll, etc). It's what Musica Antique Köln used as source material for their very early Peter's Recording "Virtuoso German Violin music of the 17th Century"...

Hi, I have a microfilm of an MS at the Biblioteque National of early German baroque chamber music, and don't know if this is something I can legally and ethically scan and upload. I actually (embarrassingly) don't remember how I came to have this in my possession. I acquired it years and years ago w...

Hi folks,
I'm just getting started here, and was wondering if the mediawiki api.php is present in the codebase to IMSLP. I'd like to be able to construct queries using the querystring "format=json", for instance.

Thanks!
Gardano

I've been thinking of a native iPhone/iPad app, but it would only be really sustainable if categories/searches were returned in raw XML or (optimally) in JSON.

A JSON response would make a web app much more responsive as well, and presumably reduce load on the server, too.

Thanks for the thoughts. Yeah, I understand the needs of this site are different than the needs of a specific group of performers. I actually do have some hand copies of individual sonatas of Carlo Farina and other early Italians around somewhere back from the days when I was a performer. I'll dig t...

Lilypond is a very powerful application for music notation, that is for sure. I've been working on something that's easier to use, both conceptually and in practice. While being able to import MusicXML files, I'm thinking it should strive to do one thing well -- present music in an aesthetically ple...

The Threnody is an amazing piece. I must admit that listening to a recording of a (violin?) concerto, I think with Isaac Stern, is the only instance I can remember that a piece of music made me physically sick. Does that count as beautiful? no. Effective? Well, I think that defines it! Would I liste...