Durova

Greetings from California.

Hi, I'm a newly minted admin here on Wikisource, also an editor on English Wikipedia and an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. I upload material at Wikisource mostly in connection with media restoration.

For other editors who are interested in uploading music, I've put together a handy sheet music loading guide.

A recording, a score, and a portrait

One of the projects I'm working on is to provide good media packets for composers and songwriters. Part of this ties in with Wikisource as a hosting location for musical scores.

A bust of Beethoven taken from his death mask.

Manuscript notes for Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 28.

The overall idea is to provide useful illustrative media that migrates easily between different language editions of Wikipedia. It's easier to translate a caption than an entire article, so smaller language projects gain an easy way of providing useful content to their readers. With good restored examples of a recording, a score, and a portrait it's possible to convey a lot of information about a composer even if an article is a stub. I'm working with a team of people and so far we've completed media packets for Ludwig van Beethoven, Irving Berlin, and Carlos Gardel. We'd like to do as many as possible and welcome international material.

Contributions

Irving Berlin songs

Irving Berlin in 1948.

One of the ways to grow Wikisource's readership and volunteer base is to become a centralized resource for music and spoken audio. The Internet has plenty of lyrics sites already; what could set Wikisource apart is to supplement text with scores, recordings, or manuscript reproductions. One of the potential synergies between projects is that a lot of this material has the potential to run on Wikipedia's main page in the "Did you know?" section. So with a newly created template that tells which specific media Wikisource hosts for a subject, Wikipedia readers have more reason to visit here.

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  before restoration
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  after restoration

With sheet music

• I Want to Go Back to Michigan - showcase example with restored sheet music and audio file
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• He's A Devil in His Own Home Town
• Mandy
• Somebody's Coming to My House
• That International Rag - also has audio
• That Mysterious Rag - also has audio
• The Ragtime Soldier Man
• When I Lost You - also has audio
• When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'
• Along Came Ruth
• Araby (song)
• At the Devil's Ball
• Sadie Salome (Go Home)
• Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon
• My Bird of Paradise
• They're on Their Way to Mexico
• I Beg Your Pardon Dear Old Broadway
• The Ragtime Violin
• Nobody Knows (and Nobody Seems to Care)
• The Hand That Rocked My Cradle Rules My Heart
• Oh How I Hate to Get up in the Morning - also has audio
• Everybody's Doin' It Now
• Daddy, Come Home
• Alice in Wonderland

Lyrics only

• Next To Your Mother, Who Do You Love
• Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me
• Follow the Crowd (audio available)
• I Want to Be in Dixie

James Scott songs

James Scott

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James Scott was one of the foremost ragtime composers.

Title	Year	Notes	Cover page
A Summer Breeze - March and Two-Step	1903
Fascinator	1903
On the Pike (A Rag-Time Two-Step)	1904
Frog Legs Rag	1906
Kansas City Rag	1907
Grace and Beauty	1909
Great Scott Rag	1909
Ragtime Betty	1909
Sunburst Rag	1909
Valse Venice	1909
Hearts Longing	1909
She's My Girl from Anaconda	1909	Lyrics by C. R. Dumars
Sweetheart Time	1909	Lyrics by C. R. Dumars
Hilarity Rag	1910
Ophelia Rag	1910
Princess Rag	1911
Quality	1911
Ragtime Oriole	1911
Climax Rag	1914
Suffragette	1914
Take Me Out To Lakeside	1914	Lyrics by Ida Miller
Evergreen Rag	1915
Honey Moon Rag	1916
Prosperity Rag	1916
Efficiency Rag	1917
Paramount Rag	1917
Dixie Dimples	1918
Rag Sentimental	1918
Springtime of Love	1918
New Era Rag	1919
Peace and Plenty Rag	1919
Troubadour Rag	1919
Modesty Rag	1920
Pegasus (rag)	1920
Shimmie Shake	1920	Lyrics by Cleota Wilson
Don't Jazz Me Rag	1921
Victory Rag	1921
Broadway Rag	1922
Calliope Rag	1966	published posthumously

Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel was a leading figure in the history of tango.

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• Por una Cabeza

Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin in 1907.

Scott Joplin was the most famous ragtime composer.

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• Maple Leaf Rag
• A Breeze From Alabama
• The Entertainer
• The Cascades
• The Chrysanthemum
• Country Club
• Gladiolus Rag
• Lily Queen
• Kismet Rag
• Frolic of the Bears

Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake

Noble Sissle in 1951.

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• I'm Just Wild About Harry
• Serenade Blues
• Bandana Days
• Baltimore Buzz
• Love Will Find A Way
• Gypsy Blues

Richard A. Whiting, Raymond B. Egan, Gus Kahn

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• Ain't We Got Fun

Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvořák

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• Ten Biblical Songs

Joseph Lamb

Joseph Lamb, c. 1915.

• Sensation
• Gee, Kid! But I Like You
• American Beauty Rag
• Nightingale Rag
• Reindeer Rag Time Two-Step
• Bohemia Rag

John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa, 1900.

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• Across the Danube
• Transit of Venus
• Stars and Stripes Forever
• America First
• Boy Scouts of America
• Anchor & Star
• Contentment Rag
• Cleopatra Rag

George M. Cohan

George M. Cohan, 1933.

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• Over There
• You're A Grand Old Flag
• The Yankee Prince
• The Yankee Doodle Boy

Stephen Foster

• Beautiful Dreamer

Benjamin Franklin's Silence Dogood letters

• Silence Dogood, No. 1
• Silence Dogood, No. 2
• Silence Dogood, No. 3
• Silence Dogood, No. 4
• Silence Dogood, No. 5
• Silence Dogood, No. 6
• Silence Dogood, No. 7
• Silence Dogood, No. 8
• Silence Dogood, No. 9
• Silence Dogood, No. 11
• Silence Dogood, No. 12
• Silence Dogood, No. 13
• Silence Dogood, No. 14
• Hugo Grimm on Silence Dogood

Other contributions

A related project has been to U.S. Presidential speeches. Thanks to U.S. Government public domain, we're able to host these. Wikisource could grow into an excellent resource for this type of material, because most of it in its existing form is scattered across various presidential libraries and other websites under a variety of formats and site architectures.

• Statement by the President in his Address to the Nation, September 11, 2001 - by George W. Bush, audio file included
• The Right of the People to Rule - by Theodore Roosevelt, audio file included
• Index:Washington - State of the Union.djvu - George Washington's handwritten notes for his first State of the Union Address
• Statement on the Panama Canal Treaty Signing By Jimmy Carter, audio file included