A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Beethoven's Manuscripts for 200 Years

Re:A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Beethoven's Manuscr... by Doctor_Fegg on Friday April 12, 2024 @06:42PM (#40018423)

> Around the same time, scans of Beethoven manuscripts began to appear on a wiki site for musicians called the International Music Score Library Project.

IMSLP is the third wonder of the crowdsourced world, after Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. I write as an OSM OG, someone who in theory understands crowdsourcing dynamics more than most, and still... IMSLP never ceases to amaze me.

One example. Look at the contributions of Pierre Gouin: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Gouin,_Pierre . He's 77 years old and from Montreal. He has edited thousands of scores of keyboard music, with the highest standards of scholarship, and posted them up for people to download. I play the church organ and I lose count of the number of times I have benefited from his endeavours.

Multiply that by the number of IMSLP's dedicated contributors. Multiply that by the number of musicians who have downloaded their scores. It is an absolute wonder and it deserves more recognition.

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Re:A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Beethoven's Manuscr... by analog31 on Friday April 12, 2024 @06:51PM (#40018469)

My kids are both classical musicians, and IMSLP has been a game changer for music study, as well as spontaneous jam sessions.

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Re:A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Beethoven's Manuscr... by djtango on Saturday April 13, 2024 @02:26AM (#40020973)

Yes jamming is true. I was once at a party with a bunch of classical musicians and they started sight reading the Mendelssohn trio using an iPhone for the score - thanks be to IMSLP

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Re:A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Beethoven's Manuscr... by ajvpot on Friday April 12, 2024 @07:34PM (#40018725)

IMSLP saved my life as a music student.

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Re:A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Beethoven's Manuscr... by bschmidt1 on Friday April 12, 2024 @09:03PM (#40019388)

How is Wayback Machine not a wonder? Crowdsourced archive that's also behind Open Library and Archive-It.

Also comes to mind: Waze, 123movies, and now that I think about it - why not Google or Hugging Face (Ollama, etc.)?

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Re:A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Beethoven's Manuscr... by tomoyoirl on Friday April 12, 2024 @10:09PM (#40019822)

Not sure if those are spectacularly crowdsourced like the others unless you count “crawlers”. (Is Waze somehow super crowdsourced? Idk much about it. Either way it’s just a top three.)

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Re:A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Beethoven's Manuscr... by zubairshaik on Friday April 12, 2024 @10:24PM (#40019907)

How about the OEIS?

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