Digitalization of harp scores. Dedicated to world harp communities.
Aim: The ephemeric beauty of harp sounds inspired the creation of GitHub repositorium medulka/music-engraving. The repository contains digitalized harp music written in the program Lilypond.
Motivation: I have been playing the harp as a hobby for more than fifteen years. I am on a constant search for nice music pieces to practice. I have encountered thousands of copies-of-copies of harp scores vividly circulating in the harp community. Once, I was given a copy-of-copy of a hand-written piece composed by F.X. Thuri. The original scores were decorated with several layers of personal notes from other harpists, the owners of previous copy-of-copies of the music sheet. That was the point when I decided to make a change to the harp world. I sit down and transcripted the Thuri's Intrada into the Lilypond's code, the first digitalized piece of this repositorium was born. I have lived with a hope that I saved a precious original piece from The Maestro Thuri for the next generations of harpists. The repository is intended to grow on the demand.
"The last baroque composer". František Xaver Thuri was a Czech a pedagog, oboist, composer, musicologist and tenue professor of the Prague Conservatory. He was born and lived in Prague, Czechia, between the years 1939 - 2019. HeHe wrote an extensive number of pieces in the baroque and early classicism style. His pieces Intrada, Pavana and Sarabanda are provided in this repositorium.