BWV 250: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan

Here are the links for the PDF and the source of the chorale.

PDF

Source

The PDF contains all of the notes, German text, and English text. The source is a Tarball of the Lilypond file, the MIDI, and the PDF of the source.

The source contains the notes and German text; there is NO English text in the source, because that is copyrighted material.

All are free to edit the source information and even publish it, even for commercial use, under the following conditions:

1. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

2. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

If you edit the source for the sake of corrections, please feel free to notify me via email that you have made alterations; they will be considered for correction in the published PDF and source.

Remember, this applies ONLY to the information in the Tarball. The PDF may be edited, altered, and published unless it is the English text, which is not allowed to be edited, altered, or published unless permission from Z. Philip Ambrose is granted.

Music licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Text © Z. Philip Ambrose, translator, Web publication: http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/faculty/bach

J.S. Bach: The Extant Texts of the Vocal Works in English Translations with Commentary Volume 1: BWV 1-200; Volume 2: BWV 201- (Philadelphia: XLibris, 2005).

An Introduction To The Frescobaldi Bach Chorale Project

Hello, and welcome to my blog!

Over the course of the next few months, maybe even over a year, I plan on uploading Bach chorales. This seems like an odd thing to blog, but I have reason behind it. I am using Frescobaldi with Lilypond, free and open-source alternatives to Finale and Sibelius. This project is to show that Frescobaldi is capable of creating professional-looking scores for absolutely no cost to your freedom or your wallet. 

I am an Arch Linux user. Whenever I switched to Linux from Windows, I had a hard time coming up with an alternative to Finale, my primary music notation editor. However, after a year or so of hard looking, I have found a tremendous alternative: Frescobaldi. This project is two-fold: to show to the world that Frescobaldi is ready to be used as an alternative to Finale and Sibelius, and to finally show myself that I can delete Finale from my machine (Thanks to Wine for running it for me!).

Each post will be a link to a PDF of the finished chorale. Each chorale will be in SATB style. The actual music and original German comes from IMSLP. The English translations to each of the chorales comes from Mr. Philip Ambrose, Professor Emeritus from the University of Vermont. He has given me permission to use his translations for this project. Mr. Ambrose's website can be found here.

For those who use Lilypond and Frescobaldi, I will also upload the .ly file to each post. However, due to the fact that the English translations are copyrighted material, these files will NOT contain the text. These files will simply allow you to view the original music and edit it as you see fit. The music and files themselves will be available under Creative Commons licenses, but the copyrighted texts will not be available other than in the final PDF form. These English texts are Mr. Ambrose's property, and you should contact him to use them yourself.

Check this blog often for the next chorale that will be available!

-Ryan McClure