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- SO WHAT IS THE MUSIC PROGRAM ANYWAY?
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- This is a quick summary of MUSIC v3.2. See the manual for all the juicy
- details (MUSICDOC.PS and MUSICDOC.PCL for PostScript and HP LaserJet II
- compatible printers).
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-
- <<< MUSIC.EXE >>>
- for DOS
-
- The Electronic Song Book
- v3.2
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The MUSIC program, in a nutshell, lets you keep a collection of songs
- (chord/lyric line pairs) in "song drawers". You can have as many
- song drawers as you like to keep songs grouped together by subject such
- as "Christmas songs" or "Wedding songs" or "Campfire songs". Each song
- drawer can contain up to 999 songs.
- MUSIC is a user-friendly program that anyone can use to print song
- books (with or without the chords), transpose songs (change the key it's
- played in), print songs with modulations and keep track of song
- selection lists (extremely helpful for churches and those who have to
- keep track of how many times songs are "copied" for licensing requirements
- such as CCLI requires from licensed churches -- in fact MUSIC can print
- an actual CCLI Copying Activity Report which can be mailed directly into
- CCLI).
- MUSIC has its own built-in song editor which is specially taylored for
- entering songs. All MUSIC data files are simple text files for those of
- you who may want to import songs from a collection you may have from
- somewhere else or do any strange hacking to accomplish something MUSIC
- cannot do directly (which will not be necessary for most of you).
- MUSIC supports any color monitor but if you have an old Monochrome PC
- then MUSIC will automatically detect it and run in B&W mode. The program
- and data files are really small so you could even run it off of a floppy
- disk if you wanted to and still fit a bunch of songs on the same disk as the
- program.
-
- MUSIC has the following menu options:
- Main Menu window
- New (creates new song)
- Print (prints songs in order selected)
- Transpose (change the key the song is in)
- Edit (uses built-in editor)
- Save (writes song file to disk)
- Reload (abort changes to a song I messed up)
- Delete (delete selected songs)
- Attributes (allows you to chg song title, key, etc.)
- Quit (quit the MUSIC program)
- Song Drawer Tools window
- Alphabetize songs (by several different criteria)
- Copy songs (to another song drawer)
- Power Picker (Powerful selection tool)
- Title display (show song names in song window)
- File name display (show song filenames in song window)
- Search songs for text (search all songs for word or phrase)
- Get another drawer (load a song drawer)
- Build a song drawer (create a new song drawer)
- ReBuild this drawer (fixes any problems and imports newbies)
- Delete this drawer (removes song drawer files & directory)
- Lists menu (powerful song selection lists manager)
- Utilities window
- Configure MUSIC prog. (4 screens of configuration parameters)
- Choose window
- All (select all songs)
- None (unselect all songs)
- Multi (allow multiple songs to be selected)
- One (only allow one song to be selected: each selection
- unselects the last selection first)
-
- Besides all this there are other useful tools to help you maintain your
- collections of songs. throughout MUSIC you can press [F1] to see help screens
- based on where you are in the program. The print option is extremely flexible
- and allows you to add special formatting to the songs you print out. Besides
- printing the songs themselves, there are several reports you can print that
- will help you pull just the songs you're looking for from a large list.
- And where this just isn't good enough, you can send all your reports or songs
- to a file and format the text the way you want it in a word processor.
-
- MUSIC Specifications (v3.1)
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Max song drawers: unlimited (DOS subdirectories)
- Max songs per drawer: 999
- Max lines per song: 300
- Max chars per line: 78
- Operating system: MS DOS (PC DOS) any version
- PC Requirements: A keyboard is handy. Auto-detects Color or B&W.
- Language written in: Borland's Turbo C++ v3.1
- Program size: 670k source code, 313k executable
- Song file size: about 1k bytes on average (straight text)
-
- Example song file: 013SILEN.MUS
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- #TITLE=Silent Night
- #STORED_KEYS=G
- #PRINT_KEYS=G-A STEP 2
- ## Traditional Christmas carol.
- ## Sing slowly with feeling. 3/4 time.
- ## Modulate a full step from G to A (2 half-steps) and build.
- G
- Silent night, Holy night,
- Am7 D7 G G7
- All is calm, all is bright.
- C G
- Round yon virgin, mother and child.
- C G
- Holy infant so tender and mild,
- Am7 D7 Em A (or G)
- Sleep in Heavenly Peace -
- G Am7 D7 G
- Sleep in Heavenly Peace -
-
-
- *
- 2) Silent night, holy night,
- Shepherds quake at the sight.
- Glories streaming from heaven afar,
- Heavenly hosts sing Aleluia,
- Christ, the Savior is born,
- Christ, the Savior is born,
-
- 3) Silent night, holy night,
- Son of God, love's pure light.
- Radiant beams from Thy holy face,
- With the dawn of redeeming grace.
- Jesus, Lord at thy birth.
- Jesus, Lord at thy birth.
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