{"slug": "gelobt-sei-gott", "name": "GELOBT SEI GOTT", "meter_label": "8.8.8 with alleluias", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 8, 8], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": true, "irregular": false}, "composer": "melchior-vulpius", "composer_date": "1609", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "c", "mode": "major"}, "preferred_harmonization": "gelobt-sei-gott-cyberhymnal", "provenance": {"layer": "tune", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "GELOBT SEI GOTT (8.8.8 with alleluias), melody by Melchior Vulpius (c. 1560-1615), first published in his Ein schoen geistlich Gesangbuch (Jena, 1609) for Michael Weisse's 1531 Easter hymn Gelobt sei Gott im hoechsten Thron. Encoded from the Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and verified note-for-note against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (C major, 3/4, no pickup, 18 measures, 40 soprano notes: three syllabic 8-note lines plus a threefold Alleluia whose first two Alleluias each close with a printed three-note melisma). The soprano matches Hymnary's authority incipit 17655 67111 25176 exactly, and Hymnary's tune authority key concurs (C Major). Melody 1609 - centuries pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Gelobt sei Gott\" (melody Melchior Vulpius, 1609; harmony Henry G. Ley); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication", "hymnary_ids": {"tune_auth": "gelobt_sei_gott_vulpius", "total_instances": 171}}, "harmonization": {"slug": "gelobt-sei-gott-cyberhymnal", "tune": "gelobt-sei-gott", "music_file": "gelobt-sei-gott-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": "henry-g-ley", "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "c", "mode": "major"}, "time": "3/4", "pickup": null, "system_breaks": [8, 16, 24, 30], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "refrain": null, "source_line": "GELOBT SEI GOTT, melody by Melchior Vulpius, 1609; harmony by Henry G. Ley, 1925. Public domain.", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Melody by Melchior Vulpius, 1609 (Ein schoen geistlich Gesangbuch). This four-part setting is the harmonization by Henry G. Ley (1887-1962), credited by the Cyber Hymnal (\"Harmony by Henry G. Ley\") and first published in Songs of Praise (Oxford University Press, 1925) - the same pre-1931 setting later reprinted in the Clarendon Hymn Book and Hymns A&M Revised. Encoded from the Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py (S+A and T+B track split hand-corrected around the passing-tone figures) and verified note-for-note against the Cyber Hymnal engraving: C major, 3/4, 18 measures; the only accidentals are the engraved sharps on the alto F-sharp (bar 7) and soprano F-sharp (bar 15); the cadential walking figures (bass bars 4, 8, 14, 16; tenor bar 12) carry the source's printed melisma slurs. Melody 1609, harmony 1925 - both pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Gelobt sei Gott\" (melody Melchior Vulpius, 1609; harmony Henry G. Ley, first pub. Songs of Praise, 1925); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication", "hymnary_ids": {"tune_auth": "gelobt_sei_gott_vulpius", "total_instances": 171}}, "music_ly": "%% GELOBT SEI GOTT (8.8.8 with alleluias) \u2014 four SATB voice streams, canonical\n%% key C major. Corpus harmonization source for the HymnBookGenerator\n%% close-score engine.\n%% RULES (CI-enforced): exactly the variables soprano/alto/tenor/bass/global;\n%% absolute octaves; each voice rhythmically complete; NO chords <>, NO <<>>,\n%% NO \\secondShift/\\unisonWholeShift/tightSpacing, NO \\break, NO \\bar, NO lyrics.\n%%\n%% Encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI (\"Gelobt sei Gott\", melody by\n%% Melchior Vulpius, 1609; harmony by Henry G. Ley, 1887-1962, first published\n%% in Songs of Praise, 1925) with tools/mid2ly.py (voice split hand-corrected\n%% around the passing-tone figures) and verified note-for-note against the\n%% Cyber Hymnal engraving. C major, 3/4, no pickup, 18 measures, dotted-half\n%% finals. 40 soprano notes: three syllabic 8-note lines, then three\n%% four-syllable Alleluias; the \"ia\" of Alleluias 1 and 2 each carry a printed\n%% three-note slur (soprano notes 28-30 and 34-36: 4.-8-4 figures). The only\n%% non-scale tone is F-sharp (alto bar 7, soprano bar 15), printed with sharps\n%% in the source; the soprano f'8 in bar 16 is natural (new measure). Lower\n%% voices carry the source's printed melisma slurs: the cadential walking\n%% figures (bass bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 14, 16; tenor bar 12) and the alto\n%% passing pairs (bars 6, 10). S/A unisons at bars 2 (beat 3), 12 and the\n%% T/B shared onset at bar 12 are carried by both streams.\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key c \\major \\time 3/4 }\n\nsoprano = {\n  c''4 b'4 a'4 | g'2 g'4 |\n  a'2 b'4 | c''2. |\n  c''4 c''4 d''4 | g'2 c''4 |\n  b'4 a'2 | g'2. |\n  g'4 e'4 a'4 | g'2 f'4 |\n  e'4 d'2 | c'2. |\n  c''4 c''4 b'4 | c''4.( b'8 a'4) |\n  g'4 g'4 fis'4 | g'4.( f'8 e'4) |\n  d'4 c'4 b4 | c'2.\n}\nalto = {\n  g'2 f'4 | d'2 g'4 |\n  f'2. | g'2. |\n  a'4 a'4 a'4 | d'4( c'4) a'4 |\n  g'2 fis'4 | d'2. |\n  c'2. | b4( c'4.) b8 |\n  c'2 b4 | c'2. |\n  g'4 g'4 g'4 | e'2 f'4 |\n  d'4 d'4 d'4 | d'4 b4 c'4 |\n  a4 g4 g4 | g2.\n}\ntenor = {\n  e'4 e'4 c'4 | b2 c'4 |\n  c'2 d'4 | e'2. |\n  e'4 e'4 d'4 | b4 c'4 e'4 |\n  d'4 e'4 d'4 | b2. |\n  c'4 g4 f4 | d4 e4 f4 |\n  g4 a4 g4 | c4( e4 g4) |\n  e'4 e'4 d'4 | c'2. |\n  b4 b4 a4 | g2 c4 |\n  f4 e4 d4 | e2.\n}\nbass = {\n  c4 e4 f4 | g4( f4) e4 |\n  f4( e4) d4 | a,4( c'4 b4) |\n  a4. g8 f4 | f4 e4 a,4 |\n  b,4 c4 d4 | g,4( g4 f4) |\n  e4 e,4 f,4 | f,4( e,4) d,4 |\n  e,4 f,4( g,4) | c2. |\n  c'4 c'4 g4 | a4.( g8 f4) |\n  g4 g4 d4 | b,4( g,4 a,4) |\n  f,4 g,4 g,4 | c2.\n}\n"}, "harmonizations": [{"slug": "gelobt-sei-gott-cyberhymnal", "tune": "gelobt-sei-gott", "music_file": "gelobt-sei-gott-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": "henry-g-ley", "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "c", "mode": "major"}, "time": "3/4", "pickup": null, "system_breaks": [8, 16, 24, 30], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "refrain": null, "source_line": "GELOBT SEI GOTT, melody by Melchior Vulpius, 1609; harmony by Henry G. Ley, 1925. Public domain.", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Melody by Melchior Vulpius, 1609 (Ein schoen geistlich Gesangbuch). This four-part setting is the harmonization by Henry G. Ley (1887-1962), credited by the Cyber Hymnal (\"Harmony by Henry G. Ley\") and first published in Songs of Praise (Oxford University Press, 1925) - the same pre-1931 setting later reprinted in the Clarendon Hymn Book and Hymns A&M Revised. Encoded from the Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py (S+A and T+B track split hand-corrected around the passing-tone figures) and verified note-for-note against the Cyber Hymnal engraving: C major, 3/4, 18 measures; the only accidentals are the engraved sharps on the alto F-sharp (bar 7) and soprano F-sharp (bar 15); the cadential walking figures (bass bars 4, 8, 14, 16; tenor bar 12) carry the source's printed melisma slurs. Melody 1609, harmony 1925 - both pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Gelobt sei Gott\" (melody Melchior Vulpius, 1609; harmony Henry G. Ley, first pub. Songs of Praise, 1925); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication", "hymnary_ids": {"tune_auth": "gelobt_sei_gott_vulpius", "total_instances": 171}}, "music_ly": "%% GELOBT SEI GOTT (8.8.8 with alleluias) \u2014 four SATB voice streams, canonical\n%% key C major. Corpus harmonization source for the HymnBookGenerator\n%% close-score engine.\n%% RULES (CI-enforced): exactly the variables soprano/alto/tenor/bass/global;\n%% absolute octaves; each voice rhythmically complete; NO chords <>, NO <<>>,\n%% NO \\secondShift/\\unisonWholeShift/tightSpacing, NO \\break, NO \\bar, NO lyrics.\n%%\n%% Encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI (\"Gelobt sei Gott\", melody by\n%% Melchior Vulpius, 1609; harmony by Henry G. Ley, 1887-1962, first published\n%% in Songs of Praise, 1925) with tools/mid2ly.py (voice split hand-corrected\n%% around the passing-tone figures) and verified note-for-note against the\n%% Cyber Hymnal engraving. C major, 3/4, no pickup, 18 measures, dotted-half\n%% finals. 40 soprano notes: three syllabic 8-note lines, then three\n%% four-syllable Alleluias; the \"ia\" of Alleluias 1 and 2 each carry a printed\n%% three-note slur (soprano notes 28-30 and 34-36: 4.-8-4 figures). The only\n%% non-scale tone is F-sharp (alto bar 7, soprano bar 15), printed with sharps\n%% in the source; the soprano f'8 in bar 16 is natural (new measure). Lower\n%% voices carry the source's printed melisma slurs: the cadential walking\n%% figures (bass bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 14, 16; tenor bar 12) and the alto\n%% passing pairs (bars 6, 10). S/A unisons at bars 2 (beat 3), 12 and the\n%% T/B shared onset at bar 12 are carried by both streams.\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key c \\major \\time 3/4 }\n\nsoprano = {\n  c''4 b'4 a'4 | g'2 g'4 |\n  a'2 b'4 | c''2. |\n  c''4 c''4 d''4 | g'2 c''4 |\n  b'4 a'2 | g'2. |\n  g'4 e'4 a'4 | g'2 f'4 |\n  e'4 d'2 | c'2. |\n  c''4 c''4 b'4 | c''4.( b'8 a'4) |\n  g'4 g'4 fis'4 | g'4.( f'8 e'4) |\n  d'4 c'4 b4 | c'2.\n}\nalto = {\n  g'2 f'4 | d'2 g'4 |\n  f'2. | g'2. |\n  a'4 a'4 a'4 | d'4( c'4) a'4 |\n  g'2 fis'4 | d'2. |\n  c'2. | b4( c'4.) b8 |\n  c'2 b4 | c'2. |\n  g'4 g'4 g'4 | e'2 f'4 |\n  d'4 d'4 d'4 | d'4 b4 c'4 |\n  a4 g4 g4 | g2.\n}\ntenor = {\n  e'4 e'4 c'4 | b2 c'4 |\n  c'2 d'4 | e'2. |\n  e'4 e'4 d'4 | b4 c'4 e'4 |\n  d'4 e'4 d'4 | b2. |\n  c'4 g4 f4 | d4 e4 f4 |\n  g4 a4 g4 | c4( e4 g4) |\n  e'4 e'4 d'4 | c'2. |\n  b4 b4 a4 | g2 c4 |\n  f4 e4 d4 | e2.\n}\nbass = {\n  c4 e4 f4 | g4( f4) e4 |\n  f4( e4) d4 | a,4( c'4 b4) |\n  a4. g8 f4 | f4 e4 a,4 |\n  b,4 c4 d4 | g,4( g4 f4) |\n  e4 e,4 f,4 | f,4( e,4) d,4 |\n  e,4 f,4( g,4) | c2. |\n  c'4 c'4 g4 | a4.( g8 f4) |\n  g4 g4 d4 | b,4( g,4 a,4) |\n  f,4 g,4 g,4 | c2.\n}\n", "preferred": true}], "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}