{"slug": "were-you-there", "name": "WERE YOU THERE", "meter_label": "Irregular", "meter": {"pattern": [], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": true}, "composer_source": "African-American spiritual", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "es", "mode": "major"}, "preferred_harmonization": "were-you-there-cyberhymnal", "provenance": {"layer": "tune", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "WERE YOU THERE (Irregular), African-American spiritual, sung well before its first printing in William E. Barton's Old Plantation Hymns (1899); Hymnary.org authority \"African-American spiritual\", public domain. The standard four-part hymnal setting encoded here is The Cyber Hymnal's public-domain edition (#7233), verified against its engraving (E-flat major; printed 4/4 with a two-quarter pickup and irregular bars, carried free-meter; the \"Oh!\" of the bridge is a held four-note melisma \u2014 the \"hold and slur on the exclamation Oh!\" Barton describes as the climax of the hymn). All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Were You There?\"; SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py note data", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "harmonization": {"slug": "were-you-there-cyberhymnal", "tune": "were-you-there", "music_file": "were-you-there-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": null, "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "es", "mode": "major"}, "time": "free", "pickup": null, "system_breaks": [10, 20, 35], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "phrase_barlines": [2, 5, 9, 12, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 42, 46], "refrain": null, "alternates": [{"voice": "tenor", "voice_note": 52, "pitch": "es"}, {"voice": "bass", "voice_note": 52, "pitch": "es,"}], "source_line": "WERE YOU THERE, African-American spiritual (first printed in W. E. Barton's Old Plantation Hymns, 1899). Public domain.", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Tune WERE YOU THERE, African-American spiritual, first printed in William E. Barton's Old Plantation Hymns (1899); the four-part setting is The Cyber Hymnal's public-domain edition (#7233), encoded from its SATB MIDI and verified measure-by-measure against its engraving at 600 dpi (E-flat major, printed 4/4 with irregular bars \u2014 one 5/4, one 2/4 \u2014 hence the free-meter encoding; the alto's cadential chromatic is printed C-flat and the bass B-naturals are printed naturals, all carried as engraved). All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Were You There?\" (African-American spiritual); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py note data and hand voice-assignment for the divisi final chord", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "%% WERE YOU THERE (Irregular) \u2014 four SATB voice streams, canonical key E-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 (\"Were You There?\", African-American\n%% spiritual, first printed in W. E. Barton's Old Plantation Hymns, 1899) with\n%% tools/mid2ly.py note data (the >2-pitch final chord was assigned by hand) and\n%% verified measure-by-measure against the Cyber Hymnal engraving at 600 dpi.\n%% A FREE-METER encoding (\\cadenzaOn): the Cyber Hymnal prints 4/4 with a\n%% two-quarter pickup but bars the music irregularly \u2014 one 5/4 bar (the phrase-1\n%% \"Lord?\" hold + \"were you\" pickup share a bar), one 2/4 bar (\"were you\" before\n%% the final phrase), and a 2/4 final bar \u2014 and the corpus model has no mid-piece\n%% meter change, so every engraved barline is reproduced via phrase_barlines.\n%% MELISMATIC: 47 soprano notes for 44 syllables \u2014 the one soprano melisma is the\n%% great held wail on \"Oh!\" opening the bridge (soprano notes 21-24, slurred\n%% bes'2 es''4. c''8 bes'1, the \"hold and slur on the exclamation 'Oh!'\" that\n%% Barton 1899 describes). Inner-voice melismas from the source: the tenor\n%% es'4( des'4) slur (printed flat on the des') and the bass walking-eighth\n%% c8( bes,8) slur. The engraving splits the alto's beat-30 quarter as two TIED\n%% eighths (an NWC voice-rhythm artifact under the soprano's dotted figure);\n%% carried here as the honest as'4. The alto's chromatic at the \"tremble\"\n%% cadences is printed as C-FLAT in the source (not B-natural) and is spelled\n%% ces' to match; the bass B-naturals (b,) are printed naturals. The final chord\n%% is a four-note divisi in the bass staff (G3/Eb3/Bb2/Eb2): tenor and bass\n%% carry the upper notes (g2 / bes,2) and the lower divisi notes are the\n%% cue-sized alternates (es / es,) declared in the sidecar yaml.\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key es \\major \\cadenzaOn }\n\nsoprano = {\n  bes4 es'4 | g'2 g'4 g'4 | f'4 es'4 g'4. f'8 | es'2. es'4 g'4 | bes'2 bes'4 bes'4 |\n  c''4 bes'4 bes'4. g'8 | f'1 | bes'2( es''4. c''8 | bes'1) | c''4 bes'2 g'4 |\n  g'4. f'8 es'4 es'4 | f'4 es'2. | es'4 es'2. | c'4 bes2. | es'4 as'4 |\n  g'2 g'4 g'4 | f'4 es'4 g'4. f'8 | es'2\n}\nalto = {\n  bes4 bes4 | es'2 es'4 es'4 | d'4 c'4 d'4. d'8 | es'2. bes4 es'4 | d'2 es'4 f'4 |\n  es'4 f'4 g'4. es'8 | d'1 | es'4 d'4 es'4 as'4 | g'4 f'4 es'2 | es'4 es'2 es'4 |\n  d'4. d'8 c'4 c'4 | c'4 ces'2. | ces'4 bes2. | as4 f2. | as4 c'4 |\n  bes4 es'4 es'4 d'4 | d'4 es'4 d'4. d'8 | bes2\n}\ntenor = {\n  bes4 bes4 | bes2 bes4 bes4 | bes4 g4 bes4. as8 | g2. g4 bes4 | bes4 as4 g4 f4 |\n  g4 bes4 bes4. bes8 | bes1 | bes4 as4 bes4 c'4 | d'2 es'4( des'4) | c'4 g2 bes4 |\n  as4. g8 g4 g4 | as4 as2. | es4 es2. | es4 d2. | es4 es4 |\n  es4 g4 c'4 bes4 | as4 g4 bes4. as8 | g2\n}\nbass = {\n  bes4 g4 | es2 es4 es4 | bes,4 c4 bes,4. bes,8 | es2. es4 es4 | g4 f4 es4 d4 |\n  c4 d4 es4. g8 | bes1 | g4 f4 g4 as4 | bes4 as4 g2 | as4 es2 bes,4 |\n  b,4. b,8 c4 c8( bes,8) | as,4 as,2. | as,4 g,2. | as,4 bes,2. | c4 as,4 |\n  bes,2 bes,4 bes,4 | bes,4 c4 bes,4. bes,8 | bes,2\n}\n"}, "harmonizations": [{"slug": "were-you-there-cyberhymnal", "tune": "were-you-there", "music_file": "were-you-there-cyberhymnal.ly", "harmonizer": null, "arrangement_type": "harmonization", "canonical_key": {"tonic": "es", "mode": "major"}, "time": "free", "pickup": null, "system_breaks": [10, 20, 35], "final_barline": "|.", "amen": false, "verse_variable_melisma": true, "phrase_barlines": [2, 5, 9, 12, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 42, 46], "refrain": null, "alternates": [{"voice": "tenor", "voice_note": 52, "pitch": "es"}, {"voice": "bass", "voice_note": 52, "pitch": "es,"}], "source_line": "WERE YOU THERE, African-American spiritual (first printed in W. E. Barton's Old Plantation Hymns, 1899). Public domain.", "provenance": {"layer": "harmonization", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Tune WERE YOU THERE, African-American spiritual, first printed in William E. Barton's Old Plantation Hymns (1899); the four-part setting is The Cyber Hymnal's public-domain edition (#7233), encoded from its SATB MIDI and verified measure-by-measure against its engraving at 600 dpi (E-flat major, printed 4/4 with irregular bars \u2014 one 5/4, one 2/4 \u2014 hence the free-meter encoding; the alto's cadential chromatic is printed C-flat and the bass B-naturals are printed naturals, all carried as engraved). All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Were You There?\" (African-American spiritual); SATB MIDI + engraving, converted with tools/mid2ly.py note data and hand voice-assignment for the divisi final chord", "encoding_license": "PD-dedication"}, "music_ly": "%% WERE YOU THERE (Irregular) \u2014 four SATB voice streams, canonical key E-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 (\"Were You There?\", African-American\n%% spiritual, first printed in W. E. Barton's Old Plantation Hymns, 1899) with\n%% tools/mid2ly.py note data (the >2-pitch final chord was assigned by hand) and\n%% verified measure-by-measure against the Cyber Hymnal engraving at 600 dpi.\n%% A FREE-METER encoding (\\cadenzaOn): the Cyber Hymnal prints 4/4 with a\n%% two-quarter pickup but bars the music irregularly \u2014 one 5/4 bar (the phrase-1\n%% \"Lord?\" hold + \"were you\" pickup share a bar), one 2/4 bar (\"were you\" before\n%% the final phrase), and a 2/4 final bar \u2014 and the corpus model has no mid-piece\n%% meter change, so every engraved barline is reproduced via phrase_barlines.\n%% MELISMATIC: 47 soprano notes for 44 syllables \u2014 the one soprano melisma is the\n%% great held wail on \"Oh!\" opening the bridge (soprano notes 21-24, slurred\n%% bes'2 es''4. c''8 bes'1, the \"hold and slur on the exclamation 'Oh!'\" that\n%% Barton 1899 describes). Inner-voice melismas from the source: the tenor\n%% es'4( des'4) slur (printed flat on the des') and the bass walking-eighth\n%% c8( bes,8) slur. The engraving splits the alto's beat-30 quarter as two TIED\n%% eighths (an NWC voice-rhythm artifact under the soprano's dotted figure);\n%% carried here as the honest as'4. The alto's chromatic at the \"tremble\"\n%% cadences is printed as C-FLAT in the source (not B-natural) and is spelled\n%% ces' to match; the bass B-naturals (b,) are printed naturals. The final chord\n%% is a four-note divisi in the bass staff (G3/Eb3/Bb2/Eb2): tenor and bass\n%% carry the upper notes (g2 / bes,2) and the lower divisi notes are the\n%% cue-sized alternates (es / es,) declared in the sidecar yaml.\n\\version \"2.24.0\"\n\nglobal  = { \\key es \\major \\cadenzaOn }\n\nsoprano = {\n  bes4 es'4 | g'2 g'4 g'4 | f'4 es'4 g'4. f'8 | es'2. es'4 g'4 | bes'2 bes'4 bes'4 |\n  c''4 bes'4 bes'4. g'8 | f'1 | bes'2( es''4. c''8 | bes'1) | c''4 bes'2 g'4 |\n  g'4. f'8 es'4 es'4 | f'4 es'2. | es'4 es'2. | c'4 bes2. | es'4 as'4 |\n  g'2 g'4 g'4 | f'4 es'4 g'4. f'8 | es'2\n}\nalto = {\n  bes4 bes4 | es'2 es'4 es'4 | d'4 c'4 d'4. d'8 | es'2. bes4 es'4 | d'2 es'4 f'4 |\n  es'4 f'4 g'4. es'8 | d'1 | es'4 d'4 es'4 as'4 | g'4 f'4 es'2 | es'4 es'2 es'4 |\n  d'4. d'8 c'4 c'4 | c'4 ces'2. | ces'4 bes2. | as4 f2. | as4 c'4 |\n  bes4 es'4 es'4 d'4 | d'4 es'4 d'4. d'8 | bes2\n}\ntenor = {\n  bes4 bes4 | bes2 bes4 bes4 | bes4 g4 bes4. as8 | g2. g4 bes4 | bes4 as4 g4 f4 |\n  g4 bes4 bes4. bes8 | bes1 | bes4 as4 bes4 c'4 | d'2 es'4( des'4) | c'4 g2 bes4 |\n  as4. g8 g4 g4 | as4 as2. | es4 es2. | es4 d2. | es4 es4 |\n  es4 g4 c'4 bes4 | as4 g4 bes4. as8 | g2\n}\nbass = {\n  bes4 g4 | es2 es4 es4 | bes,4 c4 bes,4. bes,8 | es2. es4 es4 | g4 f4 es4 d4 |\n  c4 d4 es4. g8 | bes1 | g4 f4 g4 as4 | bes4 as4 g2 | as4 es2 bes,4 |\n  b,4. b,8 c4 c8( bes,8) | as,4 as,2. | as,4 g,2. | as,4 bes,2. | c4 as,4 |\n  bes,2 bes,4 bes,4 | bes,4 c4 bes,4. bes,8 | 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."}