Copyright Christopher Lacy-Hulbert 2009

This file is part of Plateau, an open-source music project.

Plateau is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Plateau is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

For a copy of the GNU General Public License please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt;.


Introduction
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This project is unfinished!

Plateau is the first part of a project to create open-source music
in the form of a text-based musical notation which can be patched,
extended, modified, re-arranged and then re-committed back to the 
original music project - just like a piece of open source software.

The coding system used is lilypond (see http://lilypond.org)

The files provided within this project include:

plateau.ly - the lilypond source file
plateau.pdf - a pdf of the engraved piano score
plateau.midi - a midi file generated by lilypond itself


How to use it
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Your options are simple. You can either:

1. Print off the pdf, sit at the piano and play it, OR
2. Modify the plateau.ly source code to add your own variations
of the original musical score, recompile and GOTO 1.

You might want to add a new part, or an extra voicing. Perhaps you 
have an idea for some variations on the theme, or maybe you just
want to add some tweaks to the score to reflect an improvement. It's
totally up to you.