Audio Sources: Acknowledgments and Gratitude

It's all real — the quacks, the plinks, the strums. The audio has been trimmed, tuned, and re-sequenced from its original state to fit the game, but the craft underneath belongs to the people and projects below. Thank you.

Instruments

The melodies are played on sampled real instruments.

• Concert Grand Piano — the default piano in Jabberblocky — comes from the Salamander Grand Piano V3, recorded from a Yamaha C5 grand by Alexander Holm, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
• Felt Piano, the softer voice behind Generative mode, comes from the VSCO 2 Community Edition Upright by Sam Gossner / Versilian Studios.
• The Nylon Guitar uses classical-guitar recordings from the Philharmonia Orchestra's sample library, and the Concert Harp comes from the Versilian Community Sample Library (VCSL), also by Sam Gossner.
• The Electric Guitar comes from FreePats — the FSBS Bridge Clean Electric Guitar.

Game sounds

Frabjous is made of toy pianos and small percussion: the toy-piano samples are "Toy Piano Samplepack" by poissonmort and "Michelsonne piano toy" by beskhu (both Creative Commons Attribution 4.0); the cork-pop sounds are by dr19 and lupums; and the tactile percussion — cowbell, woodblock, castanets, spring coil, and squeaker — comes from the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Dogs is a chorus of real dogs — every recording released into the public domain. With thanks to Joseph SARDIN at BigSoundBank, and to the Freesound contributors 16G_Panska_Dolezal_Stepan, be_a_hero_not_a_patriot, brunoboselli, Daphne_in_Wonderland, designerschoice, felix.blume, Glitchedtones, ivolipa, JoMungus, JonasTisell, JPBILLINGSLEYJR, ken788, NachtmahrTV, nielstii, qubodup, rodrigocswm, Soojay, strongbot, TeTeNoise, UnderlinedDesigns, Vrymaa, and Weak_Hero.

Ducks is, likewise, a flock of freely-shared recordings. With thanks to the Freesound contributors calodas, owennewo, and squashy555; to DenisChardonnet at BigSoundBank; and to Pixabay.

Music & scores

Every music pack plays a public-domain composition — but the playable score data behind each one was transcribed, arranged, or curated by someone, and shared. With gratitude:

• J. S. Bach — Cello Suite No. 1 — MIDI sequenced by David J. Grossman (jsbach.net)
• J. S. Bach — Toccata & Fugue in D Minor — transcription by hmscomp (MuseScore)
• Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, Finale — arranged for piano by the great Liszt, sourced from the PDMX open dataset
• Edvard Grieg — In the Hall of the Mountain King — via PDMX
• Mykola Leontovych — Carol of the Bells — arrangement by Xingyu Shui (pianofortemaster, MuseScore)
• Franz Liszt — La Campanella (MuseScore)
• Rimsky-Korsakov — Flight of the Bumblebee — transcription by james_brigham (MuseScore)
• Fernando Sor — Study in B Minor, Op. 35 No. 22 — sequenced by François Faucher (Classical Guitar MIDI Archives)
• Scarborough Fair (traditional) — via PDMX
• Gilbert & Sullivan — Major-General's Song — transcription by mls111888 (MuseScore)
• Bella Ciao (traditional) — transcription by PhivosK (MuseScore)
• Bunessan (traditional) — via PDMX
• Kurt Weill — Mack the Knife — via PDMX
• Zequinha de Abreu — Tico-Tico no Fubá

And to the open projects that made so much of this possible: PDMX, the MuseScore community of arrangers, the Classical Guitar MIDI Archives, and jsbach.net.

A note of thanks

Open and freely-licensed work is the reason a small studio can make a game that sounds like this. For feedback, suggestions, or corrections, please write to us at audio@jabberwockystudios.co.

Licenses

These samples are used under Creative Commons Attribution licenses, with thanks:

• Salamander Grand Piano V3 by Alexander Holm — CC BY 3.0 — freepats.zenvoid.org
• "Toy Piano Samplepack" by poissonmort — CC BY 4.0 — freesound.org/people/poissonmort
• "Michelsonne piano toy" by beskhu — CC BY 4.0 — freesound.org/people/beskhu

Samples may have been trimmed, normalized, re-encoded, or pitch-mapped for use in the game.