Crowdsourcing in COVID times ECA-EC, November 2020
March 2020 ● ● ● ●
Norway in lockdown Rehearsals and concerts cancelled Frustrations and fear Loneliness and isolation
A musical heritage ● The National library has lots of music manuscripts and out of print-editions ● They are available online ● They are in the public domain
Creating new editions ● Using freeware (MuseScore) ● Inviting conductors and singers to participate (via social media only) ● Editions of ○ ○ ○ ○
Public domain works Previously unpublished Out of print Not competing with publishers
● Webinars and Facebook group for help ● Participants sending their work to us by email ● Posting the editions online for free download and use
Results so far ● Participants from Norway, Sweden, Ukraine... ● So far ca. 550 individual works have been edited and published ○
Mostly Norwegian works, but also works from other countries
● Lots of repertoire preserved for the future ● Participants have learned to edit music ● We invested only time
More information Editions for download: https://musescore.com/sangerforum https://musescore.com/user/3099636/sets/5102256 Contact us at sangerforum@musikk.no www.sangerforum.no