Werner Icking Music Archive

A continuation of the GMD Music Archive

Tributes to Werner Icking

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Introduction to the sheet music archive

Introduzione - Italiano

Introducci�n - Espa�ol

Introduction - Fran�ais

Wprowadzenie - po polsku

Einf�hrung - Deutsch

Indledning - Dansk

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Sheet Music (scores)

Related Music Archives

MusiXTeX and related 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 the icon points at a PDF-file, the icon at a compressed postscript file, the icon� at images and the icon at short information. (To view a PDF you must Download Acrobat Reader. It turns out that the latest series 5.x of Acrobat Reader sometimes fails to render all symbols in a score. Hence you should use an Acrobat Reader from the 4.x series with the scores in this archive).

MusiXTeX and Related Software

This is the definitive archive of software related to MusiXTeX, a music typesetting system based on TeX. You must have TeX installed before you can use any of this. To learn about TeX, try a google search on "TeX" and "Getting started" to see what's required.Otherwise, to proceed to the MusiXTeX software archive, choose between the software page (with descriptions and links), and file directory, which has all the linked files and some older files not linked from the software page.

Free Sheet Music

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 the incoming directory of the Werner Icking Music Archive. Depending on your browser type you may do so by pointing your browser to ftp://mutex-anon@upload.sunsite.dk/. When prompted for a password enter mutex. If that doesn' work connect to upload.sunsite.dk with an ftp client and login with the username mutex-anon and the password mutex. Don't forget to also send an e-mail about your upload to Christian Mondrup.

Related Sheet Music Archives

List of related archives of sheet music

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.
Statistics about the files on the Icking Music Archive.

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

2002-04-05, Christian Mondrup, Werner Icking Music Archive

2001-08-19, Don Simons

2001-05-30, Jean-Pierre Coulon