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Here's an opportunity for one to "compose" minuets and to author a Collection Book!!!

This folder contains materials that allow the user to author a book containing a collection of Musical Dice Games (MDG) minuets, generated based on the rules given in Musikalisches Würfelspiel, K.516f (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus).

To download an example of a generated book, simply click on the following image: Front Cover

Related Sites

  • Mozart - A site maintained by Marian Aldenhövel allows the visitor to generate a MDG (user-specified or randomly-generated) and the corresponding audio ( midi, wav) and image files (pdf, png) based on Musikalisches Würferspiel, K. 516f.
  • Opus Infinity - Collaborative work of Robbert Harms, Hein Moors, and Suus van Petegem whose goal is to unravel the mystery behind the tables used for generating MDGs. Site visitors can generate MDGs based on works of Kirnberger, Mozart, Stadler/Haydn, and Bach. Corresponding audio files (mid, ogg, and/or mp3) and image files (pdf or png) are also made available for listening, viewing, or downloading.
  • Mozart - A site maintained by John Chuang that allows the site visitor to generate MDGs based on the work of Stadler/Haydn.
  • mozart.zip - This is a Windows software (© 1995 VisionSoft) by John Chuang and Stephen Goodwin that generates MDG based on input from user and is available for free from Amaranth Publishing.
  • Mozart - Musical Game in C K. 516f* (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~rb5h-ngc/e/k516f.htm), Mozart Studies Online - The site of Hideo Noguchi that offers an explanation linking Musikalisches Würferspiel, K. 516f and K. 294d (K. Anh. C 30.01).

Acknowledgements

My sincerest gratitude to Chris Walshaw et al. for the ABC music notation; Jean-Francois Moine for abcm2ps and the accompanying examples, templates, and pointers for the appropriate use of these resources; Guido Gonzato for the ABC Plus Project and the abcmidi resources available there, more especially for the ABC resource book Making Music with ABC 2; James R. Allwright and Seymour Shlien for abcmidi source and binaries; Artifex, Inc. for Ghostscript v.9.06 (includes the ps2pdf converter); Inkscape v.0.48.5 for the tool for converting SVGs to PDFs for inclusion into LaTeX documents; and, User:Martin H for his reply to a TeX/LaTeX Stack Exchange question on including SVGs into LaTeX documents. Special thanks also to the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) for making available the score for Musikalisches Würfelspiel, K.516f and Amaranth Publishing for a copy of mozart.zip. Ditto to Machtelt Garrels for the book Bash Guide for Beginners, Vivek Gite for the book Linux Script Shell Tutorial, Steve Parker for the Unix/Linux Shell Cheatsheet. John Fogarty's GitHub Site: Latex CreateSpace BookCover and Peter Wilson's reply in TeX/LaTeX Stack Exchange on designing a book cover were sources of ideas, information, and materials for creating the book cover and title page, thanks to both of them. Many thanks to the Debian Project for the Debian 8 (Jessie) GNU/Linux OS, TeXLive for the TeX distribution, to Brian Fox for Bash, and GitHub for its generosity in providing space for this project.

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To the extent possible under law, Justine Leon A. Uro has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to mdgBookSVG_beta. This work is published from: Philippines.

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