We will overcome this by placing a bounty on works that have not yet been transcribed. The lesson we took from other projects is that if you sit around and wait for people to transcribe the pieces they like, you’ll end up with ten transcriptions of the first movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, and none of the other movements. 25, WoO 59) by OpenScoreĪnother thing that sets us apart is our method of crowdsourcing. This is made possible with the aid of our partners at RNIB and Music21.īeethoven – Für Elise (Bagatelle No. Making scores available in accessible formats is something that sets OpenScore apart from other open sheet music initiatives. One such score is Beethoven’s Für Elise, which is also available as a Braille score for blind musicians and as Modified Stave Notation for partially sighted musicians. Thanks to the generous contributions of these communities, we’ve already been able to start putting together the first OpenScore Editions. OpenScore has an advantage in this regard, because it has immediate access to two of the largest sheet music communities through its parent organizations: MuseScore and IMSLP. We have come a long way since we announced the project back in February, and I would like to share the developments with you now.Ī key challenge for most crowdsourcing projects is attracting the critical mass of contributors required for long term sustainability. Launched just a few weeks ago, OpenScore is a new crowdsourcing initiative to digitize sheet music by the likes of Mozart and Beethoven, and make them freely available for everyone to use for any purpose.
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Editor’s note: Peter Jonas, the author of this article, is a software developer and the OpenScore project manager for MuseScore.
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