ben-schwarz1 / songbook

A collection of songs to sing in music classes at school.

A collection of songs to sing in music classes at school.

Naming conventions for a song

All files of one song are in a separate folder. This folder should be named as follows: Title-of-the-Song

Score types

• projector.mscx: For slides
• lead.mscx: Lead sheet Din A4
• piano.mscx: Piano Din A4

MuseScore styles

• projector.mscx
  • Lyrics 13
  • Page layout: Width 20cm, height 15cm, margin 1cm
  • Spatium: 2mm
• piano.mscx, lead.mscx
  • no page numbers
  • No instruments name
  • Add vertical frame without text
  • Page layout: Width 14.1cm, height 19.2cm, margin Ocm
  • Spatium: 1.2mm
  • Maximum system distance: 10
  • Text styles:
    • Measure Number: Horizontal Offset 0.5 Vertical Offset 2 Alignment Horizontal left

YAML file containing meta data

info.yml

Description of the meta data fields:

• alias: Alias for a song title, e. g. “Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge” “Komm, lieber Mai, und mache”
• arranger: The arranger of a song.
• artist: The artist of a song.
• composer: The composer of a song.
• country: The country the song is from.
• description: A longer text which describes the song.
• genre: The genre of the song.
• lyricist: The lyricist of the song.
• musescore: The MuseScore score ID from musescore.com, for example the score ID from https://musescore.com/user/1601631/scores/1299601 is 1299601.
• source: A text or a URL which describes the source of a song.
• subtitle: The subtitle of a song.
• title: The title of a song.
• wikidata: The Wikidata data item ID (without the Q prefix)
• wikipedia: ID of a wikipedia article (e. g. en:A_Article)
• year: The year the song was released.
• youtube: The youtube ID (e. g. CQYypFMTQcE)

Example

---
alias: I’m sitting here
arranger: Max Mustermann
artist: Fools Garden
composer: Heinz Müller, Manfred Meier
country: Deutschland
description: Bla bla lba
genre: Spiritual
lyricist: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
musescore: 4801717
source: http://wikifonia.org/node/9928/revisions/13488/view
subtitle: A Song about a Lemon Tree
title: Lemon tree
wikidata: 42
wikipedia: en:A_Article
year: 1965
youtube: CQYypFMTQcE

Meta data mapping

• combined.title: title (year)
• combined.subtitle: subtitle - alias - country
• combined.composer: composer, artist, genre
• combined.lyricist: lyricist

Images for each slide

The images files should be placed in a subfolder called slides.

01.svg 02.svg etc.

MuseScore text styles

This text styles are used in the song files:

• Title
• Subtitle
• Lyrics Odd Lines
• Lyrics Even Lines
• Composer
• Lyricist
• Chord Symbol
• Repeat Text Right
• Form Section

Form section naming conventions

For English songs we use of course Englisch names: Chorus, Verse, Bridge etc. The German songs have "German" section names: Refrain, Strophe.

Lyrics

• dotted slures
• Accidentals -> Brackets