At some point before you publish, it might be good to recruit some reviewers, both for text typos, and to make sure that the harmonizations follow whatever conventions you intend. With sufficiently many eyeballs, finding bugs becomes trivial.

So, Ryan, how's the book coming along? Any hope of seeing it in the not-too-distant future?

Any chance of seeing these books by Easter? Hopefully ...

Attached is a PDF of where it stands right now. Proofreading help is welcome.

Verses should be good. I just finished proofreading those today. I'm pretty confident that the antiphons are ok harmonically, but if you find anything strange in them let me know. Parallel octaves and 5ths are mostly avoided ... sometimes passing/neighboring tones justify them ... but if you find anything glaring like in the previous example I posted, please do point it out.

Also, if the way syllables are split up in the antiphons seems odd at any point, please point that out. I tried to stick to the way they appear in the SEP book, and otherwise just went on what I'm accustomed to seeing. I don't know any steadfast rules to follow with that, so let me know if anything looks odd to more expert singers.


Tomorrow I am going to begin editing the antiphons ... ties, slurs, and staff spacing. You'll see how cluttered they are right now - all of that has to be dragged into place manually.

Ignore the blank pages and staves at the start/end, those will get trimmed later. Also, any missing antiphons or verses are because they are repeated elsewhere. Once everything is formatted they'll just be copy/paste work.

I wouldn't worry so much about the "missing" ties, since idiomatic accompanying on the organ would have such repeated accompaniment notes tied by the player anyway.

Thank you nun_34.

Yes, those things as well. Good eye.

The different ending formats have different reasons:
-Black parenthetical notes are optional to include after the written chord, but never the final time through ... something to keep it from sounding harmonically resolved if verses are to follow or the antiphon is going to be repeated.
-Those labelled "last time only" explain themselves
-Sometimes the material surrounding it justifies notating with the different ending brackets. I just woke up and can't remember what that reason is exactly.

I intend to include a short intro / performance notes which will explain these and some other things.


Thank you again for proofreading. :)

HERE IT IS

it does when exported to PDF

Could be the PDF generator? Are you using Adobe Acrobat or an off-brand?

(I've had bad experiences with music specifically in off-brand PDF creators)

page 581, 582 and 606 do not appear to be complete, or I am mistaken.

I never use the PDF generator in Finale, nor would I use the one in Sibelius ... printing to PDF995 give such beautiful results.

Funeral mass. Fixed.

Then it must be the font itself. I use Palatino Linotype with much success and satisfaction in virtually all of my editions. Also, is there an option in Sibelius (as there is in Finale) to use fonts and/or resolution from from printer (as opposed to using them from the screen)? I'm not sure this would make a difference, but it might.

I don't see the file

It's over the size limit that way. (2.29MB)

Here are two parts of it. Strangely, any PDF exported beyond this point comes out too large. Even a hundred pages at a time comes out to 2.38MB ... larger than the complete file. Huh?

I've raised the file limit to 5MB; thanks.

Here's the whole thing (without the above suggestions, yet).


(1) The page numbers are easily moved. I like the look better now that I've tried it.

(2) The footers would need to be entered manually. I can probably knock that out this weekend if you think the results are desirable. I like how it looks, check out the second attachment. I removed the name from the top of the file in this example, because it seems redundant to have it at both places. Another advantage of moving them down like this is to use the full names. Some of them are abbreviated when placed at the top, ie: Assumption of BVM, instead of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which looks cluttered on top (in the current format, anyway) but would be just fine as a footer.

I really like the look in the second attachment here. Let me know what you think.

I think having footers stating what Mass it is would be a desirable feature. I like the look as well.

Here's what I would do: on the first page the of each Mass (IE above the introit), provide the heading full size on the top with the title, and on the bottom, provide the page number only. On every other page of that Mass, lay it out as you have in attachment no. 2. Repeat for each Mass.

Here's another example.

update-
All titles and footnotes are created. Now they just need to be manually dragged into place (they're splattered amongst the pages they pertain to).
Adding these served as an additional opportunity for proofreading on my part. Noticed a missing antiphon on the 26th Sunday and a couple of misnomers in the antiphon labels (those, of course now deleted and corrected in their respective footnotes).

2nd half

It's 8.1 if not split like that

Here it is from the Sibelius export, which comes out smaller.

Hmm. Still wont accept it. But everything's there in the split file or in the Sib export.


So, pending further edits, I guess its time to figure out licensing and publishing details. Does this need to be licensed under creative commons at all? What about ISBN? That doesn't seem necessary for something like this. I'll investigate some self-publish sites, if anyone has suggestions please share.

Is an ISBN necessary to sell online? I've read otherwise. But, I only started reading about it a whole 4 hours ago.

ISBNs make the book easier for customers to find. Some booksellers might decide to require it, just for their own convenience.

It's possible to sell POD books through Amazon, for example.

What's the best way to find out about their requirements?