User:Durova

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.

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.

Irving Berlin songs
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.

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 was one of the foremost ragtime composers.

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


 * Por una Cabeza

Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin was the most famous ragtime composer.


 * 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



 * 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

 * Ain't We Got Fun

Antonín Dvořák



 * Ten Biblical Songs

Joseph Lamb

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

John Philip Sousa



 * 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



 * 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