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Prof. Christof Biebricher passed away February 17 2009 The Werner Icking Music Archive contains a miscellany of subject-specific musical material. Click on the name of a subdirectory containing scores, sound files, typesetting source files, additional README-files etc., or follow the composer links to enjoy fully all of the Archive's possibilities. The icon will direct you to score images, the icon to short informative texts, the icon to sound files, and the icon leads you to PDF-files. (To view a PDF file you must Download Acrobat Reader). This is the definitive archive of software related to MusiXTeX, a music typesetting system based on TeX. If you do not have this system installed, you should visit the web site Getting Started with TeX to see what is required. To access the MusiXTeX software archive, choose between the software page (with descriptions and links), and file directory, which contains all our linked files. Google Search WIMA If you are not looking for a specific composer you can search the Werner Icking archive with Google. Type the instruments, musical forms or other words you want into this field: If you obtain too many results, move back to this form, and put a "-" sign in front of the words you don't want. Example: violin piano sonata -viola -cello To the archive contributors: The sheet music editor is on vacation in July. Please be patient.

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• Scores indexed by Composers and Editors
• List of New scores
• List of Revised scores

Renewal of the WIMA site

A project on renewing WIMA is ongoing. New features will include facilities for searching scores and editorial tools for registering and updating scores, see technical details on the project. Additional project participants are welcome!

Contributing to the archive

If you want to contribute to the archive then please use WIMA's ftp service, ftp.daimi.au.dk for uploading your files. Enter anonymous as username and your email address as password. Select wima as the folder for uploading your files. Don't forget to send an email about your contribution to Christian Mondrup .

You'll need an ftp client for uploading files to ftp.daimi.au.dk. For Windows users I reccomend the freeware ftp client FileZilla. WIMA offers a FileZilla v. 3.0.11 installation file. For Macintosh users I recommend the freeware ftp client Cyberduck. WIMA offers a Cyberduck v. 2.1beta1 installation file. FireFox browser users may consider installing the FireFtp add-on and use that as ftp client.

Please consider packing multiple files into a zip archive before upload. For Windows users I reccomend the freeware zipper software QuickZip. WIMA offers a QuickZip Lite v. 3.1 installation file for installation on your pc.

As WIMA editor I'm grateful for the thousands of scores provided by numerous contributors. However, since the amount of incoming scores has been ever increasing I need to introduce a somewhat restrictive upload policy:

• I kindly request contributors to upload at most 2 scores at the time. Please upload no further scores until the current score has been evaluated and added to the archive. That may last short, or it may last long.

PDF is the publishing format of the sheet music archive, see the PDF instructions for users of TeX based tools like MusiXTeX, PMX, M-Tx etc. and for users of graphical sheet music editors like Finale, Sibelius, NoteWorthy Composer etc.

Lists:

• Other free sheet music archives
• Multi-lingual glossary of musical terms
• Dolmetsch Music Publisher's Music Dictionary Online
• Dolmetsch Music Publisher's Music Theory History Online
• Here of a Sunday Morning (HOASM)'s Music History Online
• Discussion of pre-classical European music rec.music.early
• Repository of common music-notation mistakes
• Online search facilities about composers/works/editions
• Lists of composer's works: Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Vivaldi
• Selection of string quartets
• Typical registrations in French 17-18 century organ music (French language)
• Archive statistics

2002-04-15, Don Simons

2003-06-19, Jean-Pierre Coulon