I was up until midnight reading Who Moved My Cheese? I was so stoked by it, that I had to wake Carole and tell her about it. We discussed it in more detail what we might do to make Jackman Music Corporation more dynamic. Meridith's biweekly newsletter is going a long way towards that now. I also toyed with an idea for an electronic ChoralClub where members receive publication notices with recording links instead of physical sheet music.
“Hem” is the character in the cheese book most like myself. He is content to carry on usual business and resents distractions to the contrary.
I have to ask myself, “What is it that we are trying to do? Is it about sheet music, or is it about service in the Kingdom? If it is about the latter, we may be more effective just serving more shifts in the temple, or going on a mission. It could be argued that sheet music is also an important aspect of the Kingdom too—I guess—and we may be in a particularly potent position to provide; possibly more so than other folks.
I wonder if there might be a way that we could champion the Ward Choir more effectively?
-- At the office in the morning, I prepared five choral pieces and two books for download through the JMC web site.
-- We are planning an exhibit at the international printed music convention in Las Vegas at the end of this month, and a choral reading workshop tour of northeastern states in the Fall. Locations will probably be Pittsburgh, Albany, and Baltimore.
Thursday, 16 April 2015
My brain, sleeping, processes music at an astounding rate—often with percussion. Last night, it was variations on Smoke on the Water.
-- At the office, I am performing digital transcriptions of back-list items. Carole gave me a list of ten or eleven backlist pieces that were not available from our web site; mostly for women's voices—and I have been contentedly doing new layouts from archive scans over the last three days.
The project I left unfinished last night was very crowded. The original engravings were done by hand in Korea. Beautiful assembly is difficult. When I came back to my desk this morning, I knew I had to start the layout over. I split apart all of the scanned systems, and repasted them; cutting back density from four to three systems per page.
After a full day's work today, I have one relayout project left in this batch.
Friday, 17 April 2015
Friday, 17 April 2015
I had one item left on my list—to create a digital file of the violin part for The Lord's Prayer.
The Lord's Prayer is probably B. Cecil Gates' most successful publication. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has performed and broadcasted the piece since 1938.
Gates issued it through The Choir Publishing Co. in editions for Mixed Voices, Women's Voices, for Men's Chorus; for Solo Medium Voice and for High Voice.
An excellent optional violin obbligato, which was issued separately, accompanies each of these voicings—one in the key of D to accompany the high vocal solo and the chorals, and a version in C to accommodate the medium solo.
Considering the separate part; how to assemble it for download; I decided rather than to continue with a separate edition, instead to include a violin part with each edition.
This afternoon, I reassembled the SSA edition that I had finished yesterday, adding the violin part on page 7 out of 8, then took on the versions for Mixed Voices, and for Men's Voices; adding the violin obbligato page into each of them, and saving them all in digital form for upload to our web page and subsequent download by our customers.
I love doing this work.
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