Werner Icking Music Archive

A continuation of the GMD Music Archive

Tributes to Werner Icking

Introduction to the sheet music archive

Sheet Music (scores)

MusiXTeX

Historical software

Mailing list archive and signup

GMD mutex mailing list archive

Lists

Werner Icking founded the GMD Music Archive of scores, software, email, and other music-related items, and diligently maintained it for the benefit of any internet traveler who might happen by. Some visitors returned again and again, over time forming a coherent little community with Werner as patriarch, a community bound together by common interest in creating beautifully typeset pages of music. The group was devastated on February 13, 2001, to learn from an email posting that five days earlier, Werner had died while cycling home from work. The mailing list suddenly became a memorial service, where dozens of his friends stood and tried to make sense of this tragedy. Hardly anyone had met him in person, but everyone had stories about how Werner had personally and unselfishly inspired them to do something a little better. And everyone realized clearly, from the number and sincerity of those elegies, that Werner's true gift was his ability to make all his correspondents feel like personal friends, though they may be thousands of miles away, and their question might be one he had answered for others many times before.
It is altogether fitting that this continuation of the GMD archive now be dedicated to Werner Icking. His spirit runs through every part of it, and will continue to do so as long as it stands. In his wonderful scores of the complete unaccompanied violin works of Bach, he captured Bach's intentions by meticulously following Bach's page layouts. His good-natured postings to the mailing list are here for all to see. And while he didn't serve as principal developer of any of the software packages, he did contribute significant pieces of coding to MusiXTeX, and served tirelessly as motivator, beta tester, and peerless bug-finder for PMX. Those who knew him were privileged, and all who visit here owe him a debt of gratitude.

The Werner Icking Music Archive, now part of the SunSITE server at the University of Aalborg, Denmark contains music-related stuff. Click on the subdirectory name to enter the ftp-server, which often presents additional README-files etc., or follow the data entries to enjoy the WWW-presentation of this music archive. The icon points at images, the icon at short information and the icon at a PDF-file

MusiXTeX

to typeset musical scores with MusiXTeX: introduction, documentation, reference, license. Linux .rpm of the prior version: i386, src, musixflx-i386
and some software related to MusiXTeX
- abc2mtex "abc"-to-MusiXTeX [Introduction, User's guide, Home page]
- MPP a preprocessor for MusiXTeX
- M-Tx (V0.52) a preprocessor for PMX to provide lyrics with PMX [Documentation(Postscript, HP Laserjet), example(Postscript, , source), and the Package as ZIP-file]; patched version with source and DOS-executable for compositions with more than nine instruments etc.,
  MacOS-version (V0.52), patched version for MacOS , OS/2-version (V052-patch) ,
  tex2ex for Win32, mtxutil M-Tx utilities written in Perl e.g. to extract voices or to transpose .
- PMX (V2.30) a preprocessor for MusiXTeX [Introduction, Full ZIP-file, Documentation , Quick-ref , Score example(Postscript, , , source), Tour de force example ], ZIP of test version for the next release.
  Unix/C-version (V2.30), MacOS-version (V2.20), last DOS (non-Windows)-Version (V1.43). Linux rpm's (V2.20): i586, src, (V2.305): i386.
and some add-ons related to MusiXTeX
- musixlyr (V1.1) a MusiXTeX extension package for lyrics handling by Rainer Dunker
- musixser (V1.1a) a MusiXTeX extension package for voice-wise entry of music either as ZIP-file or as tar-file with documentation and example by Rainer Dunker
- German description how to create a Gottesdienstordnung using LaTeX, M-Tx, PMX, MusiXTeX and musixlyr with complete source provided by Dirk Baack
- a package used to typeset music by Hildegard von Bingen incl. TeX-font containing Hildegard's neumes.
- 4-page example of typesetting orchestral scores with MusiXTeX-source
- 1-page text on the combination of PMX&LaTeX2e with LaTeX2e-source
- 1-page text on typesetting rests with MusiXTeX-source
- 2-page text on typesetting scales using \relativeaccid with source
- 4-page text on tabulature by Michel Caprace
- MusiXTeX extension for tabulature-notation with example (TeX-source, PS-file, more examples) by Ronald Gelten

Historical software: MusicTeX, MuTeX

Instrumental music

Vocal music

new 2000-06-06 Visit the event log of the sheet music part of the archive enumerating New Items and Revised Items

To add some stuff to this section upload it to ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/icking-music-archive/incoming/ and send an e-mail to Christian Mondrup

Lists:

some online search facilities about composers/works/editions, and a multi-lingual glossary of musical terms.
some lists of composer's works: Bach, Chopin, Mozart , Vivaldi, and a selection of string quartets.
the list of files in the GMD Music Archive, collected and maintained by Werner Icking until Feb. 8 2001, and some statistics about these files.

2001-02-08, Werner Icking (1943-2001), GMD

2001-06-20, Christian Mondrup, Werner Icking Music Archive

2001-06-22, Don Simons

2001-05-30, Jean-Pierre Coulon