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Version 3 (Nov 26th 1999 - Jul 23rd 2000)

During the summer of '99 Eosnet.com became more and more unpredictable. I just couldn't go on letting them host Musica Viva.
Luckily, just as Eosnet collapsed for good, I happened to meet an old friend who worked as a sys-admin at Bedre Reklame, a local advertisement company with their own server and plenty of web space to spare.
On top of that, the musicaviva.com domain name became available.
At last Musica Viva had found a real home :-)

The Bedre Reklame server is a Macintosh. I'm not too happy with that. I mean, I would never even consider anything but a Macintosh for my own use, but servers ought to be Unix IMHO.
Still, a Macintosh server meant WebStar - and in this case even the amazing WebCatalog scripting software. Better for my uses than SOL's CGI-disabled Unix, and of course way beyond Eosnet's Windows NT nightmare!

I didn't start using scripts right away, though. There was no time for that. All I did was to upload the static site at Eosnet to the new server and take it from there.

July 21th 2000

Updated the encyclopedia and the search engine. There are now 1436 keywords in the encyclopedia and 3898 titles from 33 different web sites in the search engine's database.

July 19th 2000

Updated The tune book

July 17th 2000

Started working on an ensemble music finder in The common_room

July 16th 2000

  • Updated the encyclopedia
  • Updated the directory and the search engine
  • New Technique and Music page (finally)
  • Added a few new pieces all over the place
  • The harpsichord archive finally got its own page
  • Added the recorder archive
  • Cleaned up all over the sheet music archives, correcting various minor mistakes and - hopefully - making it even easier to navigate.

July 13th 2000

Updated the help pages and the index page.

July 11th 2000

Updated the Free Sheet Music Directory. There are now more than 500 sites listed there!
Also a few other minor changes all over the place.

June 4th 2000 to July 10th 2000

Various minot modifications.

June 3rd 2000

Updated the Free Sheet Music Directory.

May. 22nd 2000

51 new titles. The 50 first tunes in "O'Neills 1001" added to The new tune book and Bach's Wachet auf (Sleepers wake) added to The little book of hymns.

May. 18th 2000

Time for a little summary? There are now 1152 titles in the Musica Viva database, and 461 sites listed in the free sheet music directory. I have done a coule of other small but important changes as well during the last month - far too many to list them all here.

Apr. 16th 2000 and onwards

I'll have to give up this page for a while. I'm updating Musica Viva at least once a day at the moment and it would simply be far too much work to maintain this list. There are lots of new things all the time all over the place.

Apr. 15th 2000

Apr. 14th 2000

Updated the encyclopedia.Added a guitar arrangement of Here comes the bride. (Yes, I know, but somebody asked me to do it, and I just couldn't resist it ;-)

Apr. 13th 2000

Corrected some mistakes in the Common Room.Added Row, row, row your boat to the cathces.

Apr. 12th 2000

Added the "ABC-users" collection to the ABC site.

Apr. 11th 2000

Four new titles, three new sites in the directory and a few small changes here and there.

Apr. 9th 2000

Six new titles (mainly in the tune book) and a couple of modifications all over the place.

Mar. 31th 2000

More than a month since last update. But the size of this should make up for most of it. It would be easier to list what isn't new this time.

Feb. 20th 2000

Correcting some errors that crept in during the big upgrade last week. Also a few minor changes all over the place - and one or two new pieces, of course.

Feb. 13th 2000

All pages redesigned, 26 new titles added, two new sheet music archives added (oboe and trumpet), the music workshop is finally running properly, added a small collection of midis...
It would be easier to say what isn't new!

Jan. 30th 2000

Added The Entertainer on request.

Jan. 21th 2000

A few new titles in the sheet music archives, a few more sites in the directories, a few more keywords in the encyclopedia - and hopefully a few less typos.
One important change is that I have started to link from the sheet music pages to relevant keywords in the encyclopedia. It'll take a while to complete that work, since it has to be done manually, but at least I've started.

Jan. 11th 2000

Micro update. Just one new link at the Resource Center.

Jan. 10th 2000

Just a minor update from the visitor's point of view. Just one new entry in the Free Sheet Music Directory. Added and updated the sponsored links. And, oh yes I uploaded the new Resource Center. Hope you like it.

Jan. 9th 2000

Updated the Free Sheet Music Directory. There are now 369 sites listed.

Jan. 6th 2000

10 new titles, mainly in the classical guitar archive.

Dec. 16th 1999

17 new titles, lots of new links in the Free Sheet Music Directory, twice as many keywords in the encyclopedia and lots of small changes all over the place.

Dec. 7th 1999

Better late than never!
The new Musica Viva is finally on Internet. More content than ever, and hopefully even easier to navigate!

Nov. 26th 1999

Uploaded a beta version and told some friends to come and see.

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