Piano Version of Commandments of Love

Michael Dodson used his talents more than a year ago

to produce sheet music for piano as part of the

computer-generated sound files for my choir music.

Then I chose to stay with my original four-part (SATB)

manuscript instead of this computer-generated piano

version. Now Michael has "left me to my own devices"

because by now he has contributed all he wishes to

contribute to the project. I certainly can not blame him.

He expected me to learn how to make midi files myself

and I have not gone in that direction. Instead I have

allowed myself to be rediscovered by a gentleman I

knew as an acquaintance more than ten years ago,

and a very time-and-interest-consuming friendship

has developed between me and my rediscovered

local gentleman friend. After my husband, my Mr.

Adam, died on the blue moon day of July 2004, I did

not see many friends in person. Now that I am

"out and about" so much more, there is even less

time to spend on making websites.

These JPG pages of sheet music might make it

easier for you to play the music yourself. Some of

the notes shown in the bass clef may need to be

played by the right hand along with the notes in the

treble clef. Although the piano braces are missing,

and this notation is not completely accurate for

either four-part choir or for piano, this still might be

much easier to read than the original manuscript

which combined all four voices rather than

separating them.

Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve, April 7, 2007

Caution, Minor Chord In Measure 5:

In the piano version bass clef, be sure to play

the D as a flatted note, as indicated by the key

signature. This is in spite of the fact that in the

beginning of the same measure, in the treble clef,

a natural is indicated for the D. Although the pitches

of these two notes are close (both near middle C)

they are written differently because the first is

shown in treble clef and the second is shown in bass

clef. If sung, the D natural would be sung by an alto,

the later flat would be sung by a tenor, and the

sound of the four voices together when sung as

intended would make a totally different chord from

one beat to another. In my original manuscript

I indicated the flat for the tenor part, even though

it is already showing as a flatted note in the key

signature. I wrote out the flat in the manuscript to

show the change from the natural at the beginning

of the measure. This was not indicated in the

computer-generated score, probably because it

is already indicated by the key signature.

Correction to Measure 33: Notice the

first chord of measure 33. It is the chord that

would go with the word "first" if someone would

add the lyrics. The middle C showing in the bass

clef (for the tenor voice) is incorrect. It is supposed

to be one step above middle C, as a D natural. I can

not make corrections to the jpg photo of this page

2 of the piano score, so I ask you to indicate this

correction on your own printed copy. I was hearing

this error in the midi but I could not correct it because

I do not know how to make midi files or the sheet music

that goes with them. This measure 33 error was not as

obvious a problem in the sound as was the problem

with the flat needed in the tenor part in measure 5, which

I mentioned above. For that correction to the midi, I was

able to tell Michael what was needed and he made the

correction in the sound files themselves. At that time

I was expecting to present only a JPG of the manuscript

and not a JPG of this computer-generated piano sheet

music.