Tony Baechler wrote:
Hello. I was unaware of this, but this gives me an idea. Would anyone like to do American folk music in MIDI format with text lyrics? Much of the sheet music is online from the Library of Congress. It is of course public domain since I am referring to Civil War songs and early 1900's. Here is a site which goes into much more detail on how to obtain the sheet music and includes lots of lyrics. He says on the site that the MIDI files are his work and are not public domain, but the lyrics he posts are and links to sheet music sites which are. Someone might like to look into this. It would be a lot of work since MIDI versions would have to be produced and the lyrics would have to be extracted, but he says in his FAQ that anyone may use the text files of the lyrics.
MIDI? That's _so_ last century ;-) Here are a couple of my favourite sites: Roger McGuinn's folk den http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/php/search/ Free Music http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/ Cheers, Holden