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Sat, 05/05/2012 - 11:19 — TrinaJ
For some hymns, it is hard to find sheet music. I am really glad I ran into this site to be able to find hymns, and sing them.
Sibelius torch is good, however, I think it would also be really nice to have hymns be saved in the universal music notation file: .xml
In the past I was trying to print a hymn for a number of people, and the only version I could find ANYWHERE was on here...and it was two pages, with just one line on the second page. Being a poor college student, I was rather frustrated that I couldn't easily adjust the page spacing, measure spacing, or staff spacing since I do not own Sibelius. I tried importing a midi, and it doesn't include lyrics, so that takes a while to write them in.
Another solution, which I don't remember if you guys DO have this or not, but just putting PDF's up as well. I think the more options up, the better. And If the problem is that people aren't putting them up, I am willing to do so.
As a side-note, Musescore is the best free notation music software I have run into, and I have looked around a bit. From what I have poked around in for the expensive software, Musescore has just as much capability as Sibelius, and MUCH more than the 2012 free version of Finale (Notepad). It does have it's problems of course, but it is much more flexible than any other free version and it can accomplish A LOT.
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Contributing XML versions
I am pretty new to this site. I notice that most, but not all of the hymns have a downloadable XML version. I am good with a computer and don't find it very difficult to create XML hymn files. If I come across a hymn that doesn't have an XML file, is there any way to contribute such a file? (I can't guarantee perfect accuracy, but I am pretty good at editing before publishing.)
Contributing XML versions
Yes, we would love to have XML files for hymns that don't have them. You can send them to me, or to info at hymnary dot org.
Bug Report - Charles E. Kettle
The page at http://www.hymnary.org/person/Kettle_CE1 has a link for the text "When on my day of life the night is falling," & indicates Kettle is the text's author.
The link points to http://www.hymnary.org/text/when_on_my_day_of_life_the_night_is_fall, where the author is shown as John Greenleaf Whittier. Kettle is not listed on that page at all.
Instance author
If you look at the list of instances and show the authors column, you can see that Kettle is listed as an author on one instance, in the 1937 "The New Hymnal of Praise." I don't know any more than that.
MusicXML scores
We have added many MusicXML scores, including files that open directly in MuseScore. We're including these and also PDF files in our "fully treated hymns," so this is the standard we are working toward. (It's not clear how far we'll be able to get due to lack of funding. Buy some stuff at the Hymnary.org store or donate some funds if you'd like to help us out!)
However, we've found that MusicXML is still poor about maintaining layout and formatting across different notation software. For the best looking scores, you still need to use the Sibelius file.