{"slug": "ville-du-havre", "name": "VILLE DU HAVRE", "alt_name": "IT IS WELL", "meter_label": "11.8.11.9 with Refrain", "meter": {"pattern": [11, 8, 11, 9], "doubled": false, "refrain": true, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "composer": "philip-paul-bliss", "composer_date": "1876", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "des", "mode": "major"}, "preferred_harmonization": "ville-du-havre-openhymnal", "provenance": {"layer": "tune", "source": "oh-source-1931", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Tune by Philip Paul Bliss (1838-1876), written for Horatio G. Spafford's hymn and named for the SS Ville du Havre, the ship in whose 1873 wreck Spafford's four daughters died. First published in Gospel Hymns No. 2, ed. P. P. Bliss & Ira D. Sankey (New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati: John Church, 1876), no. 76, printed pages 77-78 (\"P. P. Bliss, by per.\") \u2014 archive.org item hymnsno02blis, leaf n82. US public domain by publication before 1929; Bliss died in 1876. Melody taken from the Open Hymnal ABC X:198 (C: \"copyright: public domain\"; declared music source The Evangelical Hymnal, 1921, Hymn 208, read at full resolution at archive.org evangelicalhymna00evan leaf n184 \u2014 D-flat major, 4/4, one-quarter pickup, 57 soprano noteheads: 40 verse + 17 refrain with two whole-note holds tied into halves). INDEPENDENT CHECK: Hymnary tune authority ville_du_havre_bliss (478 instances, \"Public Domain\") gives incipit 55433 23465 43517; this soprano's first fifteen scale degrees in D-flat are 5-5-4-3-3-2-3-4-6-5-4-3-5-1-7, an exact match at every position. tools/tune_fingerprint.py finds no corpus melody closer than 0.59 (MELCOMBE), so the tune is not already present under another name. VILLE DU HAVRE is the name the tune authority and later hymnals print; the Open Hymnal C: line gives \"'It Is Well' or 'Ville Du Havre'\" and the 1921 index calls the tune \"It Is Well\", recorded as alt_name.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"tune_auth": "ville_du_havre_bliss", "total_instances": 478}}, "harmonization": {"slug": "ville-du-havre-openhymnal", "tune": "ville-du-havre", "music_file": "ville-du-havre-openhymnal.ly", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "des", "mode": "major"}, "time": "4/4", "pickup": "4", "system_breaks": [12, 20, 31, 40, 48], "breaks_manual": true, "markings": [{"soprano_note": 41, "kind": "refrain"}], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": false, "refrain": {"soprano_note_start": 41}, "bass_echo": {"segments": [{"text": "It is well,", "durations": ["4", "4", "2"], "onset": 59}, {"text": "with my soul,", "durations": ["4", "4", "2"], "onset": 67}]}, "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "oh-source-1931", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Philip P. Bliss's own four-part setting of his own tune, first published with Spafford's words in Gospel Hymns No. 2, ed. P. P. Bliss & Ira D. Sankey (New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati: John Church, 1876), no. 76, printed pages 77-78 \u2014 archive.org item hymnsno02blis, leaf n82 \u2014 headed \"It is Well with My Soul.\" over \"H. G. SPAFFORD.\" and \"P. P. Bliss, by per.\" with the motto \"He hath delivered my soul in peace.\"\u2014Ps. 55:18. US public domain by publication before 1929; Bliss died in 1876, so it is PD in every life+70 jurisdiction as well. The notes here are the Open Hymnal Project's ABC (X:198, 2014.06 dump), whose C: block declares \"copyright: public domain\" and whose S: line names its music source as The Evangelical Hymnal, 1921, Hymn 208 \u2014 itself pre-1931 (the plate is footed \"Copyright, 1918, by The John Church Co.\", long expired). That very page was read at full resolution (archive.org evangelicalhymna00evan, leaf n184, printed page 152, headed \"208. IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL 11 8 11 9. With Refrain\") and confirms the encoding: D-flat major (five flats), 4/4 with the quarter anacrusis, the fermata over \"soul.\" at the REFRAIN double bar (omitted per house style), the two soprano whole-note holds tied into halves, and the antiphonal chorus \u2014 alto resting then answering inside the treble staff, tenor and bass resting then answering in the bass staff, the answers printed as the small leader-dotted rows \"It is well.........\" / \"with my soul,.......\" above the treble. The 1876 first printing shows the same echo structure (answer rows printed against the held notes) and the same fermata. INDEPENDENT MELODY CHECK: Hymnary's tune authority ville_du_havre_bliss (478 instances) gives incipit 55433 23465 43517, and this soprano's first fifteen scale degrees in D-flat read 5-5-4-3-3-2-3-4-6-5-4-3-5-1-7 \u2014 an exact match at every position; tools/tune_fingerprint.py finds no corpus melody closer than 0.59 (MELCOMBE), so this is not a duplicate. The page's closing \"A-men.\" chords are not in the OH encoding and are not encoded (amen: false). The OH w: underlay's wording slips (\"Thou has taught\", \"the cross\") are corrected against the dated pages in the TEXT record; the music itself needed no correction.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "Open Hymnal Project 2014.06, X:198 \"It Is Well With My Soul\" (SATB ABC extracted to a scratch single-tune file \u2014 X-number verified unique in the dump, title re-verified after extraction \u2014 and converted with tools/abc_import.py); refrain peeled and per-verse underlay rebuilt by hand against the 1921 and 1876 page images", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "%% VILLE DU HAVRE (11.8.11.9 with Refrain) \u2014 \"It Is Well with My Soul\"\n%% P. P. Bliss, 1876. Four SATB voice streams, canonical key D-flat major, 4/4,\n%% one-quarter anacrusis, 21 full bars. Imported from Open Hymnal ABC X:198\n%% (extracted to a scratch single-tune file per the DENNIS/HAMBURG route; the\n%% X-number is unique in the 2014.06 dump and the title was re-verified after\n%% extraction) via tools/abc_import.py, then hand-reformatted bar-per-line and\n%% re-verified token by token against the ABC. The Open Hymnal's declared\n%% source is The Evangelical Hymnal, 1921, Hymn 208 (printed page 152, plate\n%% footed \"Copyright, 1918, by The John Church Co.\"), and that page was read\n%% at full resolution (archive.org evangelicalhymna00evan, leaf n184): D-flat,\n%% five flats, 4/4 with the quarter pickup, fermata over \"soul.\" at the\n%% REFRAIN double bar \u2014 all as encoded here.\n%%\n%% THE ECHO (bars 14-18). The chorus is antiphonal: the soprano leads\n%% \"It is (bar 14, beats 3-4, lower voices resting) well (whole+half, tied\n%% across bars 15-16) ... with my (bar 16) soul (tied 17-18)\" while alto,\n%% tenor and bass rest two beats and answer one bar behind \u2014 \"It is\" (bar 15,\n%% beats 3-4), \"well,\" (bar 16, beats 1-2), \"with my\" (bar 17, beats 3-4),\n%% \"soul,\" (bar 18, beats 1-2) \u2014 then all voices rejoin homophonically at\n%% \"It is well, it is well with my soul.\" The rests are printed in the source\n%% (both the 1921 page and the 1876 first printing) and are kept here; the\n%% answer's words are the sidecar's `bass_echo`, not a fifth voice. The two\n%% soprano ties (aes'1~ aes'2, twice) are the page's own held notes, NOT\n%% tied-shorter import artifacts \u2014 they cross barlines and cannot be merged.\n%%\n%% THE ONE VERSE MELISMA: notes 8-9 (ges'-bes', \"at-TEND-eth\"), slurred by\n%% abc_import from the w: alignment; all five OH stanzas and the 1921 page's\n%% four interlinear stanzas agree on the position (fixed melisma).\n%%\n%% NOT RENDERED, present in the source: the fermata over bar 14's \"soul.\"\n%% chord (inverted under the tenor) \u2014 omitted per house style; the OH\n%% !sintro!/!eintro! suggested-intro brackets around bars 18b3-21 (dropped\n%% decorations); and the 1921 page's closing plagal \"A-men.\" chords, which the\n%% Open Hymnal does not encode (amen: false in the sidecar \u2014 the engine's\n%% amen feature can supply one if ever wanted).\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key des \\major \\time 4/4 \\partial 4 }\n\nsoprano = {\n  aes'4 |\n  aes'2 ges'4 f'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4 f'4 |\n  ges'4( bes'4) aes'4 ges'4 |\n  f'2. aes'4 |\n  des''2 c''4 bes'4 |\n  bes'2 aes'4 g'4 |\n  aes'2. aes'4 |\n  des''2 des''4 c''4 |\n  bes'2 bes'4 bes'4 |\n  ees''2 ees''4 des''4 |\n  c''2 bes'4 aes'4 |\n  des''2 des''4 des''4 |\n  des''2 c''4. des''8 |\n  des''2 aes'4 aes'4 |\n  aes'1~ |\n  aes'2 aes'4 aes'4 |\n  aes'1~ |\n  aes'2 f'4 aes'4 |\n  bes'2 bes'4 des''4 |\n  des''2 c''4. des''8 |\n  des''2.\n}\n\nalto = {\n  f'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4 des'4 |\n  des'2 c'4 des'4 |\n  c'2 c'4 ees'4 |\n  des'2. f'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4 des'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4 ees'4 |\n  ees'2. ges'4 |\n  f'2 f'4 aes'4 |\n  ges'2 bes'4 aes'4 |\n  g'2 g'4 g'4 |\n  aes'2 aes'4 aes'4 |\n  aes'2 des'4 des'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4. f'8 |\n  f'2 r2 |\n  r2 f'4 f'4 |\n  ees'2 r2 |\n  r2 ees'4 ges'4 |\n  f'2 des'4 f'4 |\n  ges'2 ges'4 ges'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4. f'8 |\n  f'2.\n}\n\ntenor = {\n  aes4 |\n  aes2 aes4 aes4 |\n  aes2 aes4 aes4 |\n  aes2 aes4 c'4 |\n  des'2. aes4 |\n  bes2 a4 bes4 |\n  des'2 c'4 bes4 |\n  c'2. c'4 |\n  des'2 des'4 des'4 |\n  des'2 des'4 d'4 |\n  ees'2 ees'4 ees'4 |\n  ees'2 des'4 c'4 |\n  des'2 aes4 bes4 |\n  aes2 aes4. aes8 |\n  aes2 r2 |\n  r2 aes4 des'4 |\n  c'2 r2 |\n  r2 c'4 ees'4 |\n  des'2 aes4 des'4 |\n  des'2 des'4 bes4 |\n  aes2 aes4. aes8 |\n  aes2.\n}\n\nbass = {\n  des4 |\n  des2 des4 des8 f8 |\n  aes2 ges4 f4 |\n  ees2 aes,4 aes,4 |\n  des2. des4 |\n  bes,2 c4 des4 |\n  des2 ees4 ees4 |\n  aes,2. aes4 |\n  des2 des4 f4 |\n  ges2 ges4 f4 |\n  ees2 ees4 ees4 |\n  aes2 aes4 aes8 ges8 |\n  f2 f4 ges4 |\n  aes2 aes,4. aes,8 |\n  des2 r2 |\n  r2 des4 f4 |\n  aes2 r2 |\n  r2 aes,4 aes,4 |\n  des2 des4 des4 |\n  ges2 ges4 ges4 |\n  aes2 aes,4. aes,8 |\n  des2.\n}\n"}, "harmonizations": [{"slug": "ville-du-havre-openhymnal", "tune": "ville-du-havre", "music_file": "ville-du-havre-openhymnal.ly", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "des", "mode": "major"}, "time": "4/4", "pickup": "4", "system_breaks": [12, 20, 31, 40, 48], "breaks_manual": true, "markings": [{"soprano_note": 41, "kind": "refrain"}], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": false, "refrain": {"soprano_note_start": 41}, "bass_echo": {"segments": [{"text": "It is well,", "durations": ["4", "4", "2"], "onset": 59}, {"text": "with my soul,", "durations": ["4", "4", "2"], "onset": 67}]}, "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "oh-source-1931", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Philip P. Bliss's own four-part setting of his own tune, first published with Spafford's words in Gospel Hymns No. 2, ed. P. P. Bliss & Ira D. Sankey (New York: Biglow & Main; Cincinnati: John Church, 1876), no. 76, printed pages 77-78 \u2014 archive.org item hymnsno02blis, leaf n82 \u2014 headed \"It is Well with My Soul.\" over \"H. G. SPAFFORD.\" and \"P. P. Bliss, by per.\" with the motto \"He hath delivered my soul in peace.\"\u2014Ps. 55:18. US public domain by publication before 1929; Bliss died in 1876, so it is PD in every life+70 jurisdiction as well. The notes here are the Open Hymnal Project's ABC (X:198, 2014.06 dump), whose C: block declares \"copyright: public domain\" and whose S: line names its music source as The Evangelical Hymnal, 1921, Hymn 208 \u2014 itself pre-1931 (the plate is footed \"Copyright, 1918, by The John Church Co.\", long expired). That very page was read at full resolution (archive.org evangelicalhymna00evan, leaf n184, printed page 152, headed \"208. IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL 11 8 11 9. With Refrain\") and confirms the encoding: D-flat major (five flats), 4/4 with the quarter anacrusis, the fermata over \"soul.\" at the REFRAIN double bar (omitted per house style), the two soprano whole-note holds tied into halves, and the antiphonal chorus \u2014 alto resting then answering inside the treble staff, tenor and bass resting then answering in the bass staff, the answers printed as the small leader-dotted rows \"It is well.........\" / \"with my soul,.......\" above the treble. The 1876 first printing shows the same echo structure (answer rows printed against the held notes) and the same fermata. INDEPENDENT MELODY CHECK: Hymnary's tune authority ville_du_havre_bliss (478 instances) gives incipit 55433 23465 43517, and this soprano's first fifteen scale degrees in D-flat read 5-5-4-3-3-2-3-4-6-5-4-3-5-1-7 \u2014 an exact match at every position; tools/tune_fingerprint.py finds no corpus melody closer than 0.59 (MELCOMBE), so this is not a duplicate. The page's closing \"A-men.\" chords are not in the OH encoding and are not encoded (amen: false). The OH w: underlay's wording slips (\"Thou has taught\", \"the cross\") are corrected against the dated pages in the TEXT record; the music itself needed no correction.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "Open Hymnal Project 2014.06, X:198 \"It Is Well With My Soul\" (SATB ABC extracted to a scratch single-tune file \u2014 X-number verified unique in the dump, title re-verified after extraction \u2014 and converted with tools/abc_import.py); refrain peeled and per-verse underlay rebuilt by hand against the 1921 and 1876 page images", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "%% VILLE DU HAVRE (11.8.11.9 with Refrain) \u2014 \"It Is Well with My Soul\"\n%% P. P. Bliss, 1876. Four SATB voice streams, canonical key D-flat major, 4/4,\n%% one-quarter anacrusis, 21 full bars. Imported from Open Hymnal ABC X:198\n%% (extracted to a scratch single-tune file per the DENNIS/HAMBURG route; the\n%% X-number is unique in the 2014.06 dump and the title was re-verified after\n%% extraction) via tools/abc_import.py, then hand-reformatted bar-per-line and\n%% re-verified token by token against the ABC. The Open Hymnal's declared\n%% source is The Evangelical Hymnal, 1921, Hymn 208 (printed page 152, plate\n%% footed \"Copyright, 1918, by The John Church Co.\"), and that page was read\n%% at full resolution (archive.org evangelicalhymna00evan, leaf n184): D-flat,\n%% five flats, 4/4 with the quarter pickup, fermata over \"soul.\" at the\n%% REFRAIN double bar \u2014 all as encoded here.\n%%\n%% THE ECHO (bars 14-18). The chorus is antiphonal: the soprano leads\n%% \"It is (bar 14, beats 3-4, lower voices resting) well (whole+half, tied\n%% across bars 15-16) ... with my (bar 16) soul (tied 17-18)\" while alto,\n%% tenor and bass rest two beats and answer one bar behind \u2014 \"It is\" (bar 15,\n%% beats 3-4), \"well,\" (bar 16, beats 1-2), \"with my\" (bar 17, beats 3-4),\n%% \"soul,\" (bar 18, beats 1-2) \u2014 then all voices rejoin homophonically at\n%% \"It is well, it is well with my soul.\" The rests are printed in the source\n%% (both the 1921 page and the 1876 first printing) and are kept here; the\n%% answer's words are the sidecar's `bass_echo`, not a fifth voice. The two\n%% soprano ties (aes'1~ aes'2, twice) are the page's own held notes, NOT\n%% tied-shorter import artifacts \u2014 they cross barlines and cannot be merged.\n%%\n%% THE ONE VERSE MELISMA: notes 8-9 (ges'-bes', \"at-TEND-eth\"), slurred by\n%% abc_import from the w: alignment; all five OH stanzas and the 1921 page's\n%% four interlinear stanzas agree on the position (fixed melisma).\n%%\n%% NOT RENDERED, present in the source: the fermata over bar 14's \"soul.\"\n%% chord (inverted under the tenor) \u2014 omitted per house style; the OH\n%% !sintro!/!eintro! suggested-intro brackets around bars 18b3-21 (dropped\n%% decorations); and the 1921 page's closing plagal \"A-men.\" chords, which the\n%% Open Hymnal does not encode (amen: false in the sidecar \u2014 the engine's\n%% amen feature can supply one if ever wanted).\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key des \\major \\time 4/4 \\partial 4 }\n\nsoprano = {\n  aes'4 |\n  aes'2 ges'4 f'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4 f'4 |\n  ges'4( bes'4) aes'4 ges'4 |\n  f'2. aes'4 |\n  des''2 c''4 bes'4 |\n  bes'2 aes'4 g'4 |\n  aes'2. aes'4 |\n  des''2 des''4 c''4 |\n  bes'2 bes'4 bes'4 |\n  ees''2 ees''4 des''4 |\n  c''2 bes'4 aes'4 |\n  des''2 des''4 des''4 |\n  des''2 c''4. des''8 |\n  des''2 aes'4 aes'4 |\n  aes'1~ |\n  aes'2 aes'4 aes'4 |\n  aes'1~ |\n  aes'2 f'4 aes'4 |\n  bes'2 bes'4 des''4 |\n  des''2 c''4. des''8 |\n  des''2.\n}\n\nalto = {\n  f'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4 des'4 |\n  des'2 c'4 des'4 |\n  c'2 c'4 ees'4 |\n  des'2. f'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4 des'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4 ees'4 |\n  ees'2. ges'4 |\n  f'2 f'4 aes'4 |\n  ges'2 bes'4 aes'4 |\n  g'2 g'4 g'4 |\n  aes'2 aes'4 aes'4 |\n  aes'2 des'4 des'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4. f'8 |\n  f'2 r2 |\n  r2 f'4 f'4 |\n  ees'2 r2 |\n  r2 ees'4 ges'4 |\n  f'2 des'4 f'4 |\n  ges'2 ges'4 ges'4 |\n  f'2 ees'4. f'8 |\n  f'2.\n}\n\ntenor = {\n  aes4 |\n  aes2 aes4 aes4 |\n  aes2 aes4 aes4 |\n  aes2 aes4 c'4 |\n  des'2. aes4 |\n  bes2 a4 bes4 |\n  des'2 c'4 bes4 |\n  c'2. c'4 |\n  des'2 des'4 des'4 |\n  des'2 des'4 d'4 |\n  ees'2 ees'4 ees'4 |\n  ees'2 des'4 c'4 |\n  des'2 aes4 bes4 |\n  aes2 aes4. aes8 |\n  aes2 r2 |\n  r2 aes4 des'4 |\n  c'2 r2 |\n  r2 c'4 ees'4 |\n  des'2 aes4 des'4 |\n  des'2 des'4 bes4 |\n  aes2 aes4. aes8 |\n  aes2.\n}\n\nbass = {\n  des4 |\n  des2 des4 des8 f8 |\n  aes2 ges4 f4 |\n  ees2 aes,4 aes,4 |\n  des2. des4 |\n  bes,2 c4 des4 |\n  des2 ees4 ees4 |\n  aes,2. aes4 |\n  des2 des4 f4 |\n  ges2 ges4 f4 |\n  ees2 ees4 ees4 |\n  aes2 aes4 aes8 ges8 |\n  f2 f4 ges4 |\n  aes2 aes,4. aes,8 |\n  des2 r2 |\n  r2 des4 f4 |\n  aes2 r2 |\n  r2 aes,4 aes,4 |\n  des2 des4 des4 |\n  ges2 ges4 ges4 |\n  aes2 aes,4. aes,8 |\n  des2.\n}\n", "preferred": true}], "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}