{"slug": "mckee", "name": "MCKEE", "meter_label": "C.M.", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "composer_source": "African American spiritual", "arranger": "harry-t-burleigh", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "bes", "mode": "major"}, "preferred_harmonization": "mckee-cyberhymnal", "provenance": {"layer": "tune", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "MCKEE \u2014 the tune melody is a traditional African American spiritual (from the Jubilee Songs tradition, 19th century; adapted from the chorus of a spiritual), which is public domain (pre-1931). It was named and set as a hymn tune by Harry T. Burleigh (1866\u20131949) in 1939 for John Oxenham's text \"In Christ there is no East or West.\" Encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and verified note-for-note against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (B-flat major, 4/4, one-beat pickup; the soprano's A-flat \"blue note\" in bar 2 is printed with a flat and carried). PROVENANCE NOTE: the four-part SATB setting is Burleigh's 1939/40 arrangement (post-1931) \u2014 see the harmonization's pd_evidence; owner review of the PD basis is required before publication.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"McKee\" (African American spiritual, arr. Harry T. Burleigh); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "harmonization": {"slug": "mckee-cyberhymnal", "tune": "mckee", "music_file": "mckee-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": "harry-t-burleigh", "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "bes", "mode": "major"}, "time": "4/4", "pickup": "4", "system_breaks": [10, 18, 27], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "refrain": null, "source_line": "MCKEE (African American spiritual), arr. Harry T. Burleigh, 1939. Public domain (courtesy of The Cyber Hymnal).", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pd_by_nonrenewal", "pd_evidence": "Tune MCKEE (African American spiritual); four-part SATB setting arranged by Harry T. Burleigh (1866\u20131949), 1939, first published in The Hymnal 1940. Encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and verified note-for-note against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (B-flat major, 4/4; a one-beat two-eighth pickup; the final dotted half completes the anacrusis; the soprano and bass A-flat blue note in bar 2 is printed with a flat). MELISMATIC (36 soprano notes for 28 C.M. syllables); the 8 melisma continuations are held with '_' every stanza (verse_variable_melisma) at soprano notes 2, 7, 15, 17, 20, 29, 31, 34, each a slurred/beamed two-note figure read from the engraving. The Cyber Hymnal and multiple hymnal sources distribute Burleigh's setting as Public Domain (US public domain, presumably by non-renewal of the 1940 copyright). IMPORTANT: this arrangement is POST-1931 and does NOT fit the corpus's uniform pub_pre_1931 basis \u2014 OWNER MUST ADJUDICATE the PD basis before this is committed or published.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"McKee\" (arr. Harry T. Burleigh); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "%% MCKEE (C.M.) \u2014 African American spiritual, arr. Harry T. Burleigh (1939),\n%% four SATB voice streams, canonical key B-flat major. Paired with John\n%% Oxenham's \"In Christ there is no East or West\" (1908).\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 (\"McKee\", arr. Burleigh) with\n%% tools/mid2ly.py and verified note-for-note against the Cyber Hymnal engraving.\n%% 4/4 with a one-beat (two-eighth) pickup; the final note is a dotted half that\n%% completes the anacrusis. The soprano A-flat in bar 2 is the lowered-seventh\n%% \"blue note\", printed with a flat in the source and carried in the soprano\n%% (and bass). MELISMATIC: 36 soprano notes for 28 C.M. syllables; the 8 melisma\n%% continuations are held with '_' each stanza (verse_variable_melisma), at\n%% soprano notes 2, 7, 15, 17, 20, 29, 31, 34 (each a slurred/beamed two-note\n%% figure read from the engraving).\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key bes \\major \\time 4/4 \\partial 4 }\n\nsoprano = {\n  bes8 d'8 | f'4 f'4 f'4 f'8 g'8 | as'4 as'4 g'4. f'8 | g'4 bes'4 bes'8 g'8 f'8 g'8 |\n  bes'2. bes'8 c''8 | d''4 bes'4 bes'4 g'4 | f'4 es'4 d'4 bes8 c'8 | d'8 f'4 g'8 f'8 d'8 c'4 | bes2.\n}\nalto = {\n  bes8 d'8 | d'4 c'4 d'4 bes8 g'8 | c'2 bes4. f'8 | es'4 f'4 es'4. g'8 |\n  f'4 es'4 d'4 d'8 c''8 | d'2 es'2 | c'2 bes4 bes8 c'8 | a4. g'8 bes8 d'8 a4 | bes2.\n}\ntenor = {\n  d8 f8 | f4 es4 f4 d4 | es2 es4. f8 | bes2. a8 g8 |\n  f2. f4 | bes2 g2 | f2. g4 | f2 g4 es4 | d2.\n}\nbass = {\n  bes,8 f8 | bes,1 | as,4 c4 es4. f8 | es4 d4 c4 f8 es8 |\n  d4 c4 bes,4 a,4 | g,2 c4 bes,4 | a,4 g,8 a,8 bes,4 es4 | d2 c4 f,4 | bes,2.\n}\n"}, "harmonizations": [{"slug": "mckee-cyberhymnal", "tune": "mckee", "music_file": "mckee-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": "harry-t-burleigh", "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "bes", "mode": "major"}, "time": "4/4", "pickup": "4", "system_breaks": [10, 18, 27], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "refrain": null, "source_line": "MCKEE (African American spiritual), arr. Harry T. Burleigh, 1939. Public domain (courtesy of The Cyber Hymnal).", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pd_by_nonrenewal", "pd_evidence": "Tune MCKEE (African American spiritual); four-part SATB setting arranged by Harry T. Burleigh (1866\u20131949), 1939, first published in The Hymnal 1940. Encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and verified note-for-note against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (B-flat major, 4/4; a one-beat two-eighth pickup; the final dotted half completes the anacrusis; the soprano and bass A-flat blue note in bar 2 is printed with a flat). MELISMATIC (36 soprano notes for 28 C.M. syllables); the 8 melisma continuations are held with '_' every stanza (verse_variable_melisma) at soprano notes 2, 7, 15, 17, 20, 29, 31, 34, each a slurred/beamed two-note figure read from the engraving. The Cyber Hymnal and multiple hymnal sources distribute Burleigh's setting as Public Domain (US public domain, presumably by non-renewal of the 1940 copyright). IMPORTANT: this arrangement is POST-1931 and does NOT fit the corpus's uniform pub_pre_1931 basis \u2014 OWNER MUST ADJUDICATE the PD basis before this is committed or published.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"McKee\" (arr. Harry T. Burleigh); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "%% MCKEE (C.M.) \u2014 African American spiritual, arr. Harry T. Burleigh (1939),\n%% four SATB voice streams, canonical key B-flat major. Paired with John\n%% Oxenham's \"In Christ there is no East or West\" (1908).\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 (\"McKee\", arr. Burleigh) with\n%% tools/mid2ly.py and verified note-for-note against the Cyber Hymnal engraving.\n%% 4/4 with a one-beat (two-eighth) pickup; the final note is a dotted half that\n%% completes the anacrusis. The soprano A-flat in bar 2 is the lowered-seventh\n%% \"blue note\", printed with a flat in the source and carried in the soprano\n%% (and bass). MELISMATIC: 36 soprano notes for 28 C.M. syllables; the 8 melisma\n%% continuations are held with '_' each stanza (verse_variable_melisma), at\n%% soprano notes 2, 7, 15, 17, 20, 29, 31, 34 (each a slurred/beamed two-note\n%% figure read from the engraving).\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key bes \\major \\time 4/4 \\partial 4 }\n\nsoprano = {\n  bes8 d'8 | f'4 f'4 f'4 f'8 g'8 | as'4 as'4 g'4. f'8 | g'4 bes'4 bes'8 g'8 f'8 g'8 |\n  bes'2. bes'8 c''8 | d''4 bes'4 bes'4 g'4 | f'4 es'4 d'4 bes8 c'8 | d'8 f'4 g'8 f'8 d'8 c'4 | bes2.\n}\nalto = {\n  bes8 d'8 | d'4 c'4 d'4 bes8 g'8 | c'2 bes4. f'8 | es'4 f'4 es'4. g'8 |\n  f'4 es'4 d'4 d'8 c''8 | d'2 es'2 | c'2 bes4 bes8 c'8 | a4. g'8 bes8 d'8 a4 | bes2.\n}\ntenor = {\n  d8 f8 | f4 es4 f4 d4 | es2 es4. f8 | bes2. a8 g8 |\n  f2. f4 | bes2 g2 | f2. g4 | f2 g4 es4 | d2.\n}\nbass = {\n  bes,8 f8 | bes,1 | as,4 c4 es4. f8 | es4 d4 c4 f8 es8 |\n  d4 c4 bes,4 a,4 | g,2 c4 bes,4 | a,4 g,8 a,8 bes,4 es4 | d2 c4 f,4 | bes,2.\n}\n", "preferred": true}], "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}