Hoquetus - an application to compose music and put it onto sheets Copyright (c) 2006,2007 Hans-Georg Bork . At this moment there is no such application; I could also say it's early pre-alpha ... Check the doc-folder to read the design (as far as I have it there at the moment). Below text is just the first chapter of the design ... If you want to share any ideas or if you have suggestions, please drop a mail to hoquetus@hgbhome.net. Introduction 1. Main goal The main goal of this is to end up with an application which can be used easily to compose (sheet-)music. To get this there will be a graphical UI to enter the chords, scores, metrics, lyrics, ..., of any piece of music and have the possibility to print it out. This UI will also have all usual features of any editor, like file handling, undo-redo, zoom, copy-paste, ... The application should be OS/platform independent. 2. Advanced goal Advanced goal for this application could be to have these possibilities (list is not exhaustive): - export and import of MIDI-, lilypond-, abc-files or other music formats - ability to play music within the editor (MIDI?) - extraction of specific instruments out of the main score 3. The meaning of Hoquetus The Hoquetus is a special structure of polyphony notation used in the middle age, (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoquetus for some details) 4. License The source code of the application will be licensed with the GNU General Public License, either version 2 or any later version. This documentation is licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License, either version 1.2 or any later version. Other free licenses might apply as well, but they should be compatible to GNU GPL and/or GNU FDL. * If not declared different, all copyrights of this documentation are Copyright (c) 2006,2007 Hans-Georg Bork . Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". * If not declared different, the copyrights of all source files of the application are Copyright (c) 2006,2007 Hans-Georg Bork . This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.