Lots of Dowland updates; new publishing policy

In honor of the discussions of the “Sting Album”:http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5001096, I’ve gotten “most of the Dowland’s on the site”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html#4 upgraded to lilypond 2.9.

While I was at it, I also removed the numbers from the piece title in the database, so that the “By Composer”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html page prints them alphabetically by title, so that you can find ??Now O Now I needs must Part?? under N instead of VI.

I believe that what’s missing are a few of the pieces from the end of ??A Pilgrim’s Solace??, and of course all the ones from ??Lachrimae?? that aren’t transcribed yet. I have found a source for MIDI files for the whole of ??Lachrimae??, so the rest will be appearing shortly, and I will also be converting the lilypond from ??A Pilgrim’s Solace?? soon.

I in fact also have the Dowland “First Booke”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-I.html updated.

In the past, I have shared essentially all the publishing work I’ve done online, and only charged people who wanted me to print it for them.

I will continue to do this with the basic typesetting I do, which I do as a member and director of a group which sings and plays music I love, and which I want other people to sing and play and love as much as I do.

However, the work of compiling books isn’t really necessary for this effort, so I have decided that in the future, the books will be available for sale, but not for free download.

I will be organizing the database driven part of the site better, so that it will be easier to find and print all the pieces in a given book if that’s what you want to do. And I will leave up the PDF files that are already there, but not the updates and new books that I produce.