% Version 1.20
% Last edit: March 24, 2006
% The music and words produced by this source code are believed
% to be in the public domain in the United States. The source
% code itself is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-
% NonCommercial license, 
% http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/
% Attribution: Geoff Horton

\version "2.8.0"
\include "english.ly"

#(set-default-paper-size "letter")
#(set-global-staff-size 20)

piece = "Dulce Carmen"
title = "Alleluia, Song of Gladness"
composer = "An Essay on the Church Plain Chant"
poet = "Latin, 11th Cent."
translator = "tr. John Mason Neale, alt."
meter = "87.87.87"
arranger = ""

world = {
  \key g \major
  \time 4/4
  \autoBeamOff
}

melody = \relative c'' {
  \world
  g4 a b c |
  d c b a |
  g g g c |
  b a g2 |
  e4 e d d |
  g g g fs |
  a d cs8[ b] a8[ g] |
  fs4 e d2 |
  fs4 fs g d |
  e fs g a |
  b8[ a] g8[ fs] e4 c' |
  b a g2
  \bar "|."
}


alto = \relative c' {
  \world
  d4 d d g |
  fs e8[ d] d4 d |
  b d e e | 
  d4. c8 b2 |
  c4 c b b |
  b d d d |
  d d d d  |
  d cs d2 |
  d4 d d g, |
  e' ds e fs |
  g d c e |
  d4. c8 b2
}

tenor = \relative c' {
  \world
  b4 fs g g |
  a g8[ a] g4 fs |
  g g g g |
  g fs g2 |
  g4 g g8[ a] b[ c] |
  d4 b b a |
  fs a b b |
  a4. g8 fs2 |
  a4 a g g | 
  g b b d | 
  d g, g g |
  g fs g2
}

bass = \relative c' {
  \world
  g4 d g e |
  d e8[ fs] g4 d |
  e b c a |
  d d g,2 |
  c4 c g g |
  g8[ a] b[ c] d4 d |
  d fs g g, |
  a a d2 |
  d4. c8 b4 b | 
  c b e d |
  g b, c a |
  b8[ c] d4 g,2
}

verseOne = \lyricmode {
  \set stanza = "1. "
  Al -- le -- lu -- ia, song of glad -- ness,
  Voice of joy that can -- not die
  Al -- le -- lu -- ia is the an -- them 
  Ev -- er dear to choirs on high
  In the house of God a -- bid -- ing
  Thus they sing e -- ter -- nal -- ly.
}

verseTwo = \lyricmode {
  \set stanza = "2. "
  Al -- le -- lu -- ia, thou re -- sound -- est,
  True Je -- ru -- sa -- lem and free;
  Al -- le -- lu -- ia, joy -- ful moth -- er,
  All thy child -- ren sing with thee;
  But by Bab -- y -- lon's sad wa -- ters
  Mourn -- ing ex -- iles now are we.
}

verseThree = \lyricmode {
  \set stanza = "3. "
  Al -- le -- lu -- ia we de -- serve not
  Here to change for ev -- er -- more.
  Al -- le -- lu -- ia our trans -- gres -- sions
  Make us for a while give o'er.
  For the ho -- ly time is com -- ing
  Bid -- ding us our sins de -- plore.
}

verseFour = \lyricmode {
  \set stanza = "4."
  There -- fore in our hymns we pray thee,
  Grant us, bless -- ed Tri -- ni -- ty,
  At the last to keep thine Eas -- ter
  In our home be -- yond the sky;
  There to thee for ev -- er sing -- ing
  Al -- le -- lu -- ia joy -- ful -- ly.
}

\markup {
  \column {
    \fill-line { \large \bold \title } % title
    \fill-line { \caps \piece               % piece
	         \caps \composer      % composer
	  }
    \fill-line { \meter          % meter
	         \arranger           % arranger
	  }
  }
}

\score {
  \context ChoirStaff <<
    \context Staff = upper <<
      \context Voice =
         sopranos { \voiceOne << \melody >> }
      \context Voice =
         altos { \voiceTwo << \alto >> }
      \context Lyrics = one \lyricsto sopranos \verseOne
      \context Lyrics = two \lyricsto sopranos \verseTwo
      \context Lyrics = three \lyricsto sopranos \verseThree
      \context Lyrics = four \lyricsto sopranos \verseFour
    >>
    \context Staff = men <<
      \clef bass
      \context Voice =
        tenors { \voiceOne << \tenor >> }
      \context Voice =
        basses { \voiceTwo << \bass >> }
    >>
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Score
      % **** Turns off bar numbering
      \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
    }
    \context {
      \Lyrics
      % **** Prevents lyrics from running too close together
      \override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #0.6
      % **** Makes the text of lyrics a little smaller
      \override LyricText #'font-size = #-1
      % **** Moves lines of lyrics closer together
      \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-1 . 1)
    }
  }
}

\markup {
  \fill-line {
    " "
    \column {
      \small \caps \poet % poet
      \small \caps \translator % translator
    }
  }
}



%{
  Per _Hymnal 1940_, 54.
  Change log:
  3-24-06 Move to 2.8 and new formatting
%}