1-50 done 51-73 under way 74-83 done 84-128 not yet claimed 129-135 done
I have undertaken a new filenaming convention on my end only. As I get them and save them, I add your intials to the filename-- ss001mk was done by Mary in Kentucky, the mm's are done by Mmario, the mc's by Mark. (The M-Squad!) This means that if you get one back from me, you will know who did it, you will know I have at least listened to it and found no glaring weirdnesses in it, and you will know that it may have been altered by me as to tempo, repeats, lyrics corrected/added. You will know you can save it without losing your original version, and it will make it easier for me to send you each others' inputs for a quick proof check.
Then as you resend them to me you can add to the filename-- add -- and I will add your intitals again when I receive and resave. Thus no one will accidentally overwrite any original or modified versions, and by the filename we will know how much work has been done on any item in the pipeline.
The order in which I review them more carefully (my immediately-next round, starting tomorrow) will be according to the groupings in the intro, where the songs are given some description as to the type they were-- shouts, rowing songs, organized worship, secular, etc.-- or the origin, as in some that are marked as probably-all-original or probably-partially-derived from white music.
Follow me?
I need your ideas for naming a type-- the slow ones. Moans, Mourns? Laments? Groans? You know what I mean? Some of these only sound TRUE melodically if they go way slow, and the words for these are pretty dark. Whaddaya wanna christen them? (Later they founded the blues.) Slower than a shout, slower than a rowing song, really SLOW. Excruciants? We need a word to refer to these among ourselves.