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<\/p>\nUnfortunately, he didn\u2019t have much of a filing system for either Paper or Digital scores.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve been trying to collect up all the music (Digital and Paper), and sort it with the intention of making sure that it got to the people that could use it and who would appreciate the effort.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m using a 32GB thumb drive now and unlike previous attempts will hopefully not run out of space.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve also been finding a lot of duplications. I suspect that is in part due to the lack of a filing system and in part it might be further evidence that he\u2019d been \u201coff\u201d for a while and was doing a damn fine job of hiding that fact from me.<\/p>\n
No, I\u2019m not angry about it. I\u2019m just a little sad. He did his life, his way, as do I. We called \u201cShotgun\u201d on each other\u2019s journey through life and rode together for a long time. It\u2019s cool, even if I am a little sad about the way things went from time to time.<\/p>\n
As an aside, I have no clue how music is supposed to be catalogued, or indexed, or anything else.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m just doing what seems \u201cRight\u201d with the music much the same way I\u2019ve done with every other curveball that\u2019s come my way over the past 10 months.<\/p>\n
In addition to the actual musical scores, some of which are only identifiable by opening them. (I\u2019m fixing that slowly but surely.) I\u2019ve also run into actual recordings where he was playing and recording into GarageBand either via a MIDI connection or he was using a microphone.\u00a0Hearing him play has been somewhat jarring because I recognize his style and technique. It\u2019s okay, but I\u2019m still prone to crying over stuff like that, because the memories of him practicing a particular piece come flooding back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be a little sad over not being annoyed and hiding out in the office as he played the same measure over and over again trying to get it just right. In a way it was like RAP with Classical music!<\/p>\n
I hate RAP!<\/p>\n
As I typed that, I was smiling through misty eyes.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorting the music as best I can. If something has Hebrew characters in it, then it\u2019s obviously going into the Jewish music folder. If it\u2019s written in Russian It\u2019s probably a fair bet that too is going to be Jewish Music. That is also true of German and Spanish.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m so out of my depth!<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been looking for keywords in the scores. If I find anything that is recognizably Hebrew or Yiddish I know where to file it.<\/p>\n
Christian music is a little easier because there I only have to scan for \u201cJesus\u201d or Holy Ghost or Father, Son and Holy Spirt. You don\u2019t find those kinds of references in Jewish Music.<\/p>\n
Things start to get dicy when there are no lyrics, only the musical notation. If the title isn\u2019t obvious, then I\u2019m in a bit of trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If I can sound it out and recognize the roots or the rhythm of the piece \u00a0then I\u2019ve got a shot at getting it in the right place. Some music is instantly recognizable as Jewish when you hear it.<\/p>\n
I recognize the names of many classical pieces, or at least the composer so those scores go into the Classical Folder.<\/p>\n
But wait! There\u2019s more…<\/p>\n
The harp music, the organ music, the piano, harpsichord, and even accordion music is all in one big assed digital pile.<\/p>\n
For him, this presented no problem. He\u2019d open an arrangement and know exactly what instrument it was for just by looking. Hell, I think sometimes he didn\u2019t care what the score said the instrument was supposed to be. I think he\u2019d just figure it out on the fly. That\u2019s what a classically trained musician can do. It\u2019s a skill built up over a lifetime and it\u2019s amazing to watch in action.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been trying to sort the Harp and keyboard music into separate folders. Some of the folks that will be looking at this are classically trained musicians, but others aren\u2019t. \u00a0Some of the amateur choir members can carry a tune and read music, but I know the other half curated very carefully what he gave to the choir.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t about him disrespecting them, it was about not wanting to frustrate them with super busy scores. Sometimes he\u2019d sit down and manually do choir only notation as a new file that he\u2019d print here. Then we\u2019d assemble the choir books if he wanted or needed my help.<\/p>\n
I was probably next to useless because I didn\u2019t read music. But I could follow instructions, run the printer, punch holes in pages, and we\u2019d be spending the time together.<\/p>\n
I know I could just hand all of the over to \u201cReal\u201d musicians instead of a hack like me. One reason that I don\u2019t is because also mixed in this big pile of musical scores are receipts, and medical evaluations, and all the usual documents that one accumulates. So I have to be the one that filters all of this stuff out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some of the pieces of music where he\u2019s actually playing are in Apple only formats. Not a problem for me\u2026 But the Synagogue and Church are Windows based. So I\u2019m letting my super fast computer handle processing the music into something universally playable. That takes time. Not much in the way of computer time, but time listening to the various edits and editions to determine which one is most likely to be the \u201cFinal\u201d version that he\u2019d want distributed.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I\u2019m doing all of this as much for me, and the other half, as I am for the Synagogue and Church.<\/p>\n
It’s tedious, and time consuming. But I\u2019m hoping to construct something that he\u2019d be proud of.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unfortunately, he didn\u2019t have much of a filing system for either Paper or Digital scores. I\u2019ve been trying to collect up all the music (Digital and Paper), and sort it with the intention of making sure that it got to the people that could use it and who would appreciate the effort. I\u2019m using a … <\/p>\n