This is an open source, free (as in both freedom & beer) collection of jazz standards and other songs in leadsheet form.
The required tools to build this are lilypond and rust.
The goal is to support a few things for dynamic building:
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- easy transposing for different transposing instruments via a CLI flag
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- filtering for specific songs to create a setlist
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- creating additional indices, for grouping by meter, tempo, composer etc.
All finished song files are located in songs, work-in-progress songs are located in staging.
The song files and other book files are compiled to book.ly via the rust preprocessor, located in templater.
The rust preprocessor currently expects a songfile in this format:
front_matter: 'separated by ---'
---
% for harmonies
\chordMode {
}
---
% for voices
\relative c' {
}
---
% for lyrics
\lyricmode {
}
The front matter needs to be first, but the other blocks separated by --- can be in any order. Only 1 block for chords is expected, but voices/lyrics can have any number of blocks (although this isn't really tested so far).
The easiest method is with just, a modern alternative to make.
$ cd ./templater
$ just build-release
$ cd ..
$ just build
If you don't have (or don't want to use) just, you can run the commands from the justfile manually.
Submit a pull request or open an issue.
These projects either provided examples or are just similar in nature.
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The Real Book (5th & 6th Ed.) by Hal Leonard
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The Real Vocal Bbook (I & II) by Hal Leonard
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The Charlie Parker Omnibook
- Andrew Zah - zah@andrewzah.com (songs, code)