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Update the landing page for the website

Add additional material to the front page to give it more substance.

Review Songs of the Church songs

Evaluate the songs purchased from Songs of the Church to determine whether or not they should be included in the Bumby Extras hymnal

Write an article for Magnificat

Write an article for the public facing website for the hymn: Magnificat. Since this song is under copyright, we'll need to create fair-use extracts of the slides, sheet music, and practice audio files.

Write an article for Just As I Am - I Come Broken

Write an article for the public facing website about the hymn: Just As I Am - I Come Broken. Since this song is under copyright, we'll need to produce fair-use extracts of the slides, sheet-music, and practice audio files.

Separate Public Domain and Copyrighted work in separate repos

I have a desire to share the work I do on public domain hymns with several public communities. At the present time, however, all the public domain work is mixed in with copyrighted work in one repository. It should be possible, by using the git/github submodules feature to have the public hymns maintained in a public repository and the copyrighted songs in a private repository to get the best of both worlds. To do this I'd like the hymns to be more self contained. By that I mean that the parts of the layout pertaining to assembly in a hymnal - the song number and page order - should be optional. That way, the bumby hymnal project can assemble a hymnal with proper hymn number assignment and ordering in a book; but others can use the song standalone; or incorporate it into a book of their own design.

Write an article for Just For Today

Write an article for the public facing website for the hymn: Just For Today. Since this song is under copyright we'll need to produce fair-use extracts of the slides, sheet music, and practice audio files.

Create Technical Review Checklist

Document the items that should be evaluated during a technical review.

O Sacred Head - Additional Verses

Add any of the (many) extra verses

http://www.hymnary.org/text/o_sacred_head_now_wounded

Document source files with copyright information

All the various lilypond source files, and script files should have comments added with information about the copyright of both the hymn as well as of the lilypond code itself. As part of this task, which copyright I want to use needs to be determined.

Create Research Checklist

Create a checklist of items that should be covered during the research phase of a song.

Add "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need"

My Shepherd Will Supply My Need to the Hymnal.

This hymn already exists in the legacy Bumby Extras Hymnal and was typeset using Finale.

Recruit Technical Reviewers

Work to get qualified people lined up who are willing to serve as technical reviewers.

Improve Scripture handling on Title Slide

Research and improve the way in which Scripture references are handled on the Title Slide.

God of the Living, in Whose Eyes

Write an article for My Shepherd Will Supply My Need

Write an article for the public facing website for the hymn: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need. Since this is in the public domain, make the full versions of the slides, sheet music, and practice audio files available.

Add "Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal"

Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal already exists in the Bumby Extras Hymnal. It was originally typeset using Finale and needs to be converted to Lilypond.

Create lilypond procedures to reduce manual work in hymns

Many of the hymns follow a very standard format in laying out scores and staff groups. A Scheme procedure to capture the repetitive portions would greatly help with maintenance since changes to the common style can be made in one place rather than having to replicate the change in 10's (upwards of 100+ songs down the road) of hymns. Good candidates for writing procedures:

Sheet music score layout
Slides score layout - with unrolling of multiple verses
Music - with automatic creation of multiple parts

Revise headers for slides

The first system of each page on the slides is at a different place because of the header. Make the headers margin be the same whether a title is there or not.

Write an article for Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal

Write an article for the public facing website for Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal. Since this song is in the public domain, provide access to the sheet music, slides and practice audio files.

Add contacts to the website

Add one or more methods of contacting the hymnal team on the website. Ideas include:

Basic "contact" on the footer for general purpose contacts
- Request song "contact" to give folks the means of requesting new hymns
Raise Issue "contact" to give folks the means to inform the hymn team of an issue with a song.

Add "In Christ Alone"

In Christ Alone is already in the Bumby Extras Hymnal. It was originally typeset using Finale and should be converted to Lilypond.

Add "Abide With Me" with additional verses

Put the song Abide with Me through the standard process. Typeset it in Lilypond and publish the results.

Add "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" to the Mendelssohn tune used with "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"

Reset the hymn "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" to the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"

RE half notes are indistinguishable from RE quarter notes

Wherever RE occurs as a half note it looks exactly like the RE quarter note. This occurs even in printed scores.

My God, I Thank You, Who Have Made

Document overall process

Document the process by which songs are added to the Bumby Extras Hymnal

Write an article for Teach Me Lord to Wait

Write an article for the public facing website for the hymn: Teach Me Lord to Wait. Since this hymn is under copyright, we'll need to create fair-use extracts of the slides, sheet music, and practice audio files.

Setup Public facing website about the project

Use the GitHub pages feature to setup a public facing website about the project. Provide a means to access all of the public domain songs.

Research GitHub pages - setup a dummy website

Add "Just As I Am - I Come Broken"

Combine parts on all songs where parts share a staff

For music where multiple voices share a staff, it is common practice in hymnals to combine parts. Specifically, the style is when the rhythms are identical, the parts should be combined in a chord (they should share stems). Exceptions are when rhythms are different, or when the notes are identical or only a 2nd apart. That style was applied to a few songs for release v1.0.0.0. Time didn't allow us to push the style across all the songs. This issue is to apply that style across all the remaining songs.

Those are:

Write an article for In Christ Alone

Write an article for the public facing website about the hymn: In Christ Alone. Since this song is under copyright, we need to create fair-use extracts of the sheet music and slides.

Write an article for How Beautiful

Write an article for the public facing website for the hymn How Beautiful. Since this hymn is under copyright we'll need to create fair-use portions of the products to show.

Review and update processes

Now that our first edition of the hymnal are out, we should review and revise our processes; and update the process documentation accordingly.

Add "Magnificat"

Request to add Magnificat by Randy Gill.

Add "How Beautiful"

How Beautiful already exists in the Bumby Extras Hymnal. It was originally typeset using Finale and needs to be converted to Lilypond

Add "Teach Me Lord to Wait"

Teach Me Lord to Wait was already in the legacy version of Bumby Extras. It was originally typeset using Finale and should be converted to Lilypond.

B-001 to B-006: Create XML Snippets

Create Presentation Creator XML snippets for the exiting set of songs.

Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Slide Style

I'm trying to finalize all the songs and I'm fine tuning the slide style I want to use. I'd like everyone's opinion on what they think the best style will be. I've attached a PDF with various samples included:

Comparison.pdf

Just respond to the email generated from this if you want to share your opinion.

An explanation of each slide in the comparison PDF:

Is from the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs slide set (Sumphonia).
My earlier Finale based version of My Shepherd Will Supply My Need.
My first lilypond version of My Shepherd Will Supply My Need.
A sample slide from the Hymns for Worship (R.J. Stevens hymnal).
A revised lilypond version where I increased the size of the system (and associated fonts).
Same as 5; but with the title removed.

Create Critical Review Checklist

The critical review occurs early in the process of adding a new song to the Bumby Extras Hymnal. Its purpose is to consider whether or not a song should be included based upon criteria such as scriptural correctness, song quality, suitability for worship (not too complex, not too simplistic or shallow, etc.). The checklist is to aid the reviewers in considering all the various aspects of a song during their review.

Recruit Critical Reviewers

Recruit people who can serve as critical reviewers for the Bumby Extras Hymnal.

Write an article for Christ the Lord is Risen Today

Write an article for the hymn: Christ the Lord is Risen Today as set to the Mendelssohn tune. Since this is in the public domain, also provide access to the slides, sheet music, and practice audio files.

Recommendations

I am creating this issue for everyone to comment on with a list of new songs that you would like to be considered for addition into the next revision of the Bumby Extras hymnal. I think it will be better to simply list all the wanted songs here (instead of flooding the issues page) and then we can create the necessary issues for the next set of songs that we decide to work on or as we work on them.

Create Template lilypond files

Create a set of template lilypond files that can be used to start a new song

Father, Just for today

All Glory Laud and Honor

Create a publication checklist

Create a check list of items that should be handled during the publication of a song.

Develop and document a style guide

During the first phase of developing the Bumby Supplemental Hymnal the lack of a clear style guide made it more difficult for reviewers to know what was right or wrong. Some attempt was made to determine what the right answer was for certain issues as they came up; much was left to the decisions of the typesetter and opinion of the reviewers.

We need to develop a detailed style guide that addresses what our standards are in the areas of:

Layout
- Font choice, case, weight, style
- Margins
- Spacing
  - between notes
  - between syllables
  - at edges
  - between systems
- system / line / page breaks / widows and orphans
Notation
- Use beams, slurs, or both (as appropriate)?
- combine parts on a shared staff? Exceptions?
- markings? Which kind and when to use? In what format? Include mostly on sheet music, slides,
  or both?
- Tempo markings? Dynamics? Fermata?

Add "Ah Holy Jesus"

Typeset Ah Holy Jesus

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