Klarinet Archive - Posting 000900.txt from 1997/12

From: Dee Hays <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Clarinet Music Database
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:56:03 -0500

Mark Charette wrote:

> I just looked back to 13 months ago when I said I'd put
> together a little database of clarinet music. I figured
> I'd get a few hundred entries and I'd be basically done.
>
> Whoomp.
>
> I was incredibly wrong. In the last 13 months, with a lot
> of help from a few members (Takashi Kawai doing close to
> a thousand, Gary VanCott and Michael Norsworthy submitting
> many of their favorites, and a few others), I've cataloged
> and cross-referenced over 6000 compositions by over 2700
> composers.
>
> I'm now in the process of changing the database format to
> allow better searching capabilities (date ranges, number
> of player ranges, standardization of publisher names,
> checking for durations, you get the drift), along with
> trying to sort through a backlog of 4 or 5 thousand more
> entries.
>
> It's a resource; it's free; I'm having a good time
> putting it together; so please make use of it!
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Mark Charette, Webmaster - http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
> Web/Personal - charette@-----.org
> Business - charette@-----.com
> "There's already an educational TV channel - it's called 'off'."
> Lily Henderson, age 11

Also my hearty thanks Mark. It is often so true that we don't realize
how much we have accomplished until we take a moment and look back over
our efforts.

Dee Hays
deerich@-----.net
Canton, SD