{"slug": "mendon", "name": "MENDON", "meter_label": "L.M.", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 8, 8, 8], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "composer_source": "German melody, arr. Samuel Dyer, 1824", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "as", "mode": "major"}, "preferred_harmonization": "mendon-cyberhymnal", "provenance": {"layer": "tune", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "MENDON, a German melody arranged by Samuel Dyer (1824), harmonized by Lowell Mason (d. 1872). A public-domain four-part setting encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and verified against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (A-flat major, 3/4). Three eighth-note melismas at soprano notes 15/24/33. All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Mendon\" (German melody, arr. Samuel Dyer 1824; harm. Lowell Mason); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "harmonization": {"slug": "mendon-cyberhymnal", "tune": "mendon", "music_file": "mendon-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": null, "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "as", "mode": "major"}, "time": "3/4", "pickup": null, "system_breaks": [17], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "refrain": null, "source_line": "MENDON (German melody, arr. Samuel Dyer, 1824; harm. Lowell Mason). Public domain.", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Tune MENDON (German melody, arr. Samuel Dyer 1824), harmonized by Lowell Mason (d. 1872). A public-domain four-part setting encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and verified against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (A-flat major, 3/4). All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Mendon\" (German melody, arr. Samuel Dyer 1824; harm. Lowell Mason); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "% MENDON (L.M.) \u2014 four SATB voice streams, canonical key A-flat major.\n% Corpus harmonization source for the HymnBookGenerator 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 (\"Mendon\", German melody arr. Samuel\n% Dyer 1824, harm. Lowell Mason) with tools/mid2ly.py and verified against the\n% Cyber Hymnal engraving (A-flat major, 3/4). MELISMATIC: 35 soprano notes for\n% 32 L.M. syllables; three dotted-quarter+eighth melismas (slurred pairs, engraving\n% slurs confirmed) at held soprano notes [15, 24, 33].\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key as \\major \\time 3/4 }\nsoprano = {\n  as'4 g'4 as'4 es'2 as'4 g'2 as'4 bes'2. as'4 c''4 as'4 f'2 bes'4 as'4.( bes'8) g'4 as'2. bes'4 bes'4 bes'4 c''2 as'4 des''4.( es'8) c''4 bes'2. as'4 c''4 as'4 f'2 bes'4 as'4.( bes'8) g'4 as'1\n}\nalto = {\n  c'4 des'4 es'4 bes2 as4 des'2 c'4 es'2. c'4 es'4 es'4 des'2 f'4 es'4. bes'8 es'4 es'2. es'4 es'4 es'4 es'2 es'4 des'4. es'8 es'4 es'2. c'4 es'4 es'4 des'2 f'4 es'4. bes'8 es'4 es'1\n}\ntenor = {\n  es4 es4 as4 g4. des8 es4 es2 as4 g2. es4 as4 as4 as2 des'4 c'4. des'8 bes4 c'2. g4 g4 g4 as2 es4 f4. g8 as4 g2. as4 as4 as4 as2 des'4 c'2 bes4 c'1\n}\nbass = {\n  as,4 bes,4 c4 es4. des8 c4 bes,2 as,4 es2. as,4 as,4 c4 des2 bes,4 es4. des'8 es4 as,2. es4 es4 es4 as2 c4 bes,4. g8 as,4 es2. as,4 as,4 c4 des2 bes,4 es2 es4 as,1\n}\n"}, "harmonizations": [{"slug": "mendon-cyberhymnal", "tune": "mendon", "music_file": "mendon-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": null, "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "as", "mode": "major"}, "time": "3/4", "pickup": null, "system_breaks": [17], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "refrain": null, "source_line": "MENDON (German melody, arr. Samuel Dyer, 1824; harm. Lowell Mason). Public domain.", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Tune MENDON (German melody, arr. Samuel Dyer 1824), harmonized by Lowell Mason (d. 1872). A public-domain four-part setting encoded from The Cyber Hymnal SATB MIDI via tools/mid2ly.py and verified against the Cyber Hymnal engraving (A-flat major, 3/4). All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Mendon\" (German melody, arr. Samuel Dyer 1824; harm. Lowell Mason); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "% MENDON (L.M.) \u2014 four SATB voice streams, canonical key A-flat major.\n% Corpus harmonization source for the HymnBookGenerator 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 (\"Mendon\", German melody arr. Samuel\n% Dyer 1824, harm. Lowell Mason) with tools/mid2ly.py and verified against the\n% Cyber Hymnal engraving (A-flat major, 3/4). MELISMATIC: 35 soprano notes for\n% 32 L.M. syllables; three dotted-quarter+eighth melismas (slurred pairs, engraving\n% slurs confirmed) at held soprano notes [15, 24, 33].\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key as \\major \\time 3/4 }\nsoprano = {\n  as'4 g'4 as'4 es'2 as'4 g'2 as'4 bes'2. as'4 c''4 as'4 f'2 bes'4 as'4.( bes'8) g'4 as'2. bes'4 bes'4 bes'4 c''2 as'4 des''4.( es'8) c''4 bes'2. as'4 c''4 as'4 f'2 bes'4 as'4.( bes'8) g'4 as'1\n}\nalto = {\n  c'4 des'4 es'4 bes2 as4 des'2 c'4 es'2. c'4 es'4 es'4 des'2 f'4 es'4. bes'8 es'4 es'2. es'4 es'4 es'4 es'2 es'4 des'4. es'8 es'4 es'2. c'4 es'4 es'4 des'2 f'4 es'4. bes'8 es'4 es'1\n}\ntenor = {\n  es4 es4 as4 g4. des8 es4 es2 as4 g2. es4 as4 as4 as2 des'4 c'4. des'8 bes4 c'2. g4 g4 g4 as2 es4 f4. g8 as4 g2. as4 as4 as4 as2 des'4 c'2 bes4 c'1\n}\nbass = {\n  as,4 bes,4 c4 es4. des8 c4 bes,2 as,4 es2. as,4 as,4 c4 des2 bes,4 es4. des'8 es4 as,2. es4 es4 es4 as2 c4 bes,4. g8 as,4 es2. as,4 as,4 c4 des2 bes,4 es2 es4 as,1\n}\n", "preferred": true}], "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}