Hymn Singer

This is a project to make or take hymns with permissive copyright status, typeset them with LilyPond in a variety of formats, and serve them online in a friendly and usable github pages site.

Features of the site include:

• Easy browsing and searching of the full song selection, including lyrics
• A browser interface for simultaneously viewing and playing the song
  • Ability to change volume on a per-part basis
• Multiple formats available:
  • PDFs and PNGs for several notation styles,
  • a slideshow in ODF and PDF
  • MIDI and MP3
• Full mobile support (issues with android firefox at the moment)
• One can add to the site by simply adding a new lilypond file

Running the website locally:

• See github pages documentation on running a site locally
• Before you run bundle install, navigate into hymnsinger/docs, because the Gemfile is there.
• If bundle install complains about Gemfile.lock in the same directory, delete it.
• After you bundle exec jekyll serve successfully, you can see the site at http://127.0.0.1:4000 or something similar.

Possible TODOs:

• Differentiate fonts png versus pdf?

• Stem default directions down/up?

• Midiplayer tweaks:

  • Add master volume slider
  • Add pitch change slider
  • Add Instrument change option

• Play sample on the index page?

• Screenshot on home page showing e.g. amazing grace old and new.

• Consider reaching out to people

• Configurable space around lyrics

• Figure out how to understand/clean up extra_lyrics columns

• ' versus ’ in lyrics extraction

• Figure out what the meters mean for consistency

• Upgrade to lilypond 2.21

  • Swing added (Wade in the water

• Less space between two staves in clairnotes

• More compact spacing in general?

• \paper { system-system-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 0.1) (padding . 0)) ragged-last-bottom = ##f ragged-bottom = ##f }

• Phrasing slurs ( ) are not dashed after partCombine

• Enter multiple lines of lyrics above staff

• Autofocus the index page search bar

• Add og: values to hymnsinger.com index page for better sharability

• Fix caps/underscore variables

• Slides issues:

  • Prevent dropLyricsSmall etc. (o come o come)
  • Tagline missing on >1 verse songs
  • Fix the lord bless you and keep you

• Fix lyric extraction for custom slides lyrics (all creatures worship god most high)

• \m is confusingly overloaded: Once in royal uses for melisma, others use for midionly

• Finish filling out other titles column

• Look into Contributing to Mutopia

• Perhaps they would even like to have an in-browser playback?

• Mutopia sheet music has a nice footer too. Copy?

• Check out Mutopia source

• Google SEO/analytics

• Push state on search term with ?s="search term", so back button keeps search

• The quest for LY -> JS musical representation. Best bet at this point is probably to get JPV's code working and start trying to extend the effort

  • Issues with lilypond-export:
    • Key sig missing
    • Slurs missing
    • Syllable hyphens missing

• Audiveris (FOSS Musical OCR) as part of workflow? It can go from image -> musicxml (not sure about quality). MusicXML -> LY would need to be good though...

• Can't zoom on phone

• Don't search after every character press

• Remove page numbers (page 2 onwards)

• Add public domain graphic?

• Final note off of midi not triggering in browser(js issue, the midi itself is fine I think)