rzhu@watmath.waterloo.edu (Rupert Zhu) (06/24/91)
Electronic Database of Old Songs
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1. The Project
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Dr. Yan Yongxin, the author of XLBR (BYX), is trying to build up
an electronic database of old songs and will make it available to public
for free.
Yan Yongxin said: "Those old songs were an indispensable part of the
childhood and school life of our generation. We grew up with them. Now
most of us still easily recall the familiar tunes. Although the words
of some old songs are not quite good in today's judgement, people of our
age do have deep feeling towards those old songs."
2. What Can We Help
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Yan Yongxin is now collecting old songs in numbered musical notation
(Jian3 Pu3). The songs written in the period of 1950--1982 are the ones
Yan is looking for. (Yan came out in 1982.) It will be very highly
appreciated if you can find any old songbook and mail it to Yan Yongxin.
You may still have some old songbooks in your home in China.
When some relatives are going to come abroad to visit you, please tell
them to bring the old songbooks to you. Then you can contribute the
songbooks to this "music collection project".
3. What Will Yan Yongxin Do
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Yan Yongxin has written a program to transform a song in
numbered music notation (Jian3 Pu3) to a computer music program,
which in turn will play music with your computer's built-in
speaker.
When receiving a songbook, Yan Yongxin will ask somebody to help
typing in the music notation (Jian3 Pu3), then to transform to a music
program. When a fairly good collection is made, he will put the
collection of the songs at an FTP site, free to public.
The current work is aimed at IBM PC and compatibles. The
music programs will be ported to MacIntosh at some later time.
4. Yan Yongxin's Address and Phone Number
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Yongxin Yan
Apartment 201
5921 Cherrywood Terrace
Greenbelt, MD 20770
U.S.A.
(301) 220-3120 (Eastern Time)
As Yan Yongxin said, this project is a commemoration of that
unforgettable old time. Thank you very much for your support and/or
participation in this interesting project.
Rupert Zhu
University of Waterloo
June 23, 1991
(after receiving a phone call from Yan Yongxin)
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