To write Christians songs and maybe use verses in the Bible as part of the lyrics?
There are no specific song-writing features in the Notes editor, but you could use it to write the lyrics, and include links to the Bible verses. You'd still have to use music software to write the music, though.
Nice that's the answer I'm looking for. Thanks and God Bless you always forever Rosie!
James
Looks like we stumbled into just one more good use for the promised interlinear editor from Logos. Granted, I'm not sure, once the lyrics and text-notes were entered, how someone would ever get them back out, although it'd be a nice conversion to MIDI/lyrics.
I wonder if an interlinear editor would speed multiple languages for Bibles in Logos. Kind of like fancy PBs. That'd sure be interesting .... thousands of Bibles from all around the world.
We can only wish.
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As an amateur song writer, I often use Logos to help me develop lyrics.
I find the search feature helpful when I'm thinking of a phrase that's in a Psalm somewhere (probably). I have sometimes used the topic search, but haven't found that as helpful. Then compare versions to see how it may be said differently (the Message often does that). What I've done sometimes is collect a bunch of verses the concept I want to write about. I did that for a song I wrote for our church's 50th anniversary a few years back. The theme for the anniversary was "In His ways all our days." I created a verse list where "His ways" occurred, narrowed it down, and focused on those passages that caught my heart the most, and then constructed the song from there. (Not that I always work that way.)
Two other very useful tools are a dictionary and a thesaurus. Even checking out a Greek/Hebrew word in a dictionary can suggest another way of thinking about and presenting a concept.
Somewhere there's a video of a group that uses Logos to help write songs.
Song writing is much more art than science, of course, and Logos is designed more to give information than to suggest artful ways of presenting the Biblical message. Still there are some ways that Logos is becoming more 'artistic' in presenting the information, and is including more art forms (photos, drawings, etc.,), and some resources are more artistic than others (some hymn collections, etc.). Logos Bible Art is also pretty cool and might suggest something to a song writer, though it's obviously more visual.
External to Logos, I also use a rhyming dictionary. (There are many free ones online.)
I've enjoyed using Lilypond for typesetting music: http://www.lilypond.org/
It's open source. The learning curve is a little steep, but it can do just about anything.
I can post an example if you'd like.
Thanks again for responding guys. God Bless you all always!
I've enjoyed using Lilypond for typesetting music: http://www.lilypond.org/ It's open source. The learning curve is a little steep, but it can do just about anything. I can post an example if you'd like.
Sure I'd like to here and example.
I've attached a zip file with two songs. One of them is on the simpler side, and the other is a bit more complex (multiple voices per clef). They have the LilyPond source file which should compile if you have LilyPond installed, and then my resulting PDF from compilation.
3515.LilyPondExamples.zip
As much as I like, LilyPond, I do find that I'm moving toward Finale. The music we buy for church comes from Word Music in Finale format (which is really nice for modifications like transposing or tweaking lyrics). It's got a lot of great tools built in, like on-the-fly midi playback (LilyPond can compile to midi if you don't mind the extra step). It is, however, $350 for a church license, so that's why I used LilyPond for so many years.
Sorry, one more post. Here's a great way to use Logos for songwriting. Buy this book from Vyrso and read it! And Now Let's Move into a Time of Nonsense: Why Worship Songs Are Failing the Church
I'll try to take a look at that sometime.
I've been using Noteworthy Composer. It's not freeware, but it is pretty easy to use for basic things. It does play back midi, so that helps. I use it mostly for lead sheets (melody line and chords), but it can do much, much more than that.
Cyberhymnal (one example) has downloadable Noteworthy files that you can try out using the free player (AKA "Viewer") found in the Noteworthy web site.
Thanks William appreciate it. God Bless you always forever!
Hey Rich that Noteworthy software looks good also. Thanks for that and God Bless you always forever!
