On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, It is the happy circumstance that: a) Articles about pieces of classical music are much better with an excerpt of the music presented as an image b) PDFs of enormous amounts of classical music are available, in public domain, at the International Music Score Library Project (imslp.org). For example, Chopin's coverage is virtually comprehensive.
PDF to image(s) is a nice idea, within limits. But for music the best way would be to use something like WikiTex (wikisophia.org), which turns Lilypond code via LaTeX into a rendered PNG of the music, along with a downloadable .mid file.
But it's been on the burner for like 4-5 years now because, *AIUI, nobody can patch the security holes associated with taking complex input, and anyway nobody wants sheet music, tengwar, go, chess, flowcharts, sylized greek, and plotted graphs handled computatively or editably through Wikipedia.
-S