Oy Christina Big Band Scores, Part 2
From 2002 to 2006, I led a 15-piece jazz orchestra. I wrote charts for the top 40 pop hits of the day, which ranged from swing to funk to outright satire. You can listen to the full studio album here. I shared the charts for those songs in an earlier blog post.
I also created an album of “bootlegs” — live versions of songs that didn’t make the cut for the studio album. You can listen to that album here. The charts for most of those tunes are below.
I created the individual parts in Lime, a very friendly music notation program available from the Cerl Sound Group. (You can download it for a free trial.) I worked from handwritten score sketches; unfortunately I no longer have those to make available. (And if I did, I’m not sure they’d be usable by anyone but me.)
Most of the charts are scored for 15 pieces: 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 4 saxes (2 altos, tenor, bari), and rhythm (usually 2 guitars, bass, drums). Sometimes I only created a single rhythm section part. Some of the charts were scored multiple times for different size groups; in those cases, the filenames should make that clear.
I can’t speak for the original composers and lyricists of these songs, but you have my permission to use these scores for whatever purposes you want. If you perform any of them, I want to hear about it–and I want to hear a recording!
Click the links to download a .zip file with the full parts for each chart:
- Hot in Herre
- Complicated
- Lose Yourself
- All the Things You Said
- Girlfriend
- Crush
- What a Girl Wants
- Die Another Day [no chart for this one -- it's a very unorthodox arrangement and my instructions for musicians seem to be lost]
- Survivor
Oy Christina! Big Band Scores
From 2002 to 2006, I led a 15-piece jazz orchestra. I wrote charts for the top 40 pop hits of the day, which ranged from swing to funk to outright satire. You can listen to the full studio album here.
I created the individual parts in Lime, a very friendly music notation program available from the Cerl Sound Group. (You can download it for a free trial.) I worked from handwritten score sketches; unfortunately I no longer have those to make available. (And if I did, I’m not sure they’d be usable by anyone but me.)
Most of the charts are scored for 15 pieces: 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 4 saxes (2 altos, tenor, bari), and rhythm (usually 2 guitars, bass, drums). Sometimes I only created a single rhythm section part. Some of the charts were scored multiple times for different size groups; in those cases, the filenames should make that clear.
I can’t speak for the original composers and lyricists of these songs, but you have my permission to use these scores for whatever purposes you want. If you perform any of them, I want to hear about it–and I want to hear a recording!
Click the links to download a .zip file with the full parts for each chart:
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1879 Chicago White Stockings Notes, from Chicago Tribune and Times
Several years ago, I did a fair amount of research on the 1879-87 Chicago White Stockings, focusing on Cap Anson. That included a block of time I spent going through the Chicago Tribune from late 1878 and all of 1879.
After the jump, find my notes from that research. (At the end, there are some notes from the 1879 Chicago Times, as well. Passages are almost always verbatim; my personal commentary is indicated by square brackets. These are exactly as I typed them, which means there are plenty of abbreviations (I hope you can make sense of them; most of them refer to names), and there are even more typos. Sorry about that.
Since I’ve abandoned my 19th-century baseball research, I hope this can be useful to someone. See also my file of 1879 White Stockings box scores and my 1879-87 White Stockings notes from the Hall of Fame Library.
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1879-87 Chicago White Stockings: Hall of Fame Library Notes
Several years ago, I did a fair amount of research on the 1879-87 Chicago White Stockings, focusing on Cap Anson. I lucked into a few days at the Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, so I dug through several player files.
After the jump, find my notes from those files. Passages are almost always verbatim; my personal commentary is indicated by square brackets. These are exactly as I typed them, which means there are plenty of abbreviations (I hope you can make sense of them; most of them refer to names), and there are even more typos. Sorry about that.
Since I’ve abandoned my 19th-century baseball research, I hope this can be useful to someone. See also my file of 1879 White Stockings box scores.
1879 Chicago White Stockings Box Scores
As part of a long-dead, unfinished project, I collected all of the box scores of the 1879 Chicago White Stockings. (I think it’s all of them, anyway.) I copied them from the Chicago Tribune reports of (usually) the following day.
I’ve zipped all the individual box scores, and now they are available for anyone who may want them. (I know–it’s difficult to imagine how you lived your life all this time without them.)
Ted Sullivan, Humorous Stories of the Ball Field
Several years ago, I had some free time and easy access to a well-stocked library. For some reason, I decided to spend that time transcribing the text of Ted Sullivan’s book, Humorous Stories of the Ball Field.
Sullivan is an important figure in early baseball, especially minor league baseball. His Wikipedia page barely scratches the surface. His books aren’t exactly groundbreaking, but as they are first-person narratives of the 19th-century game and its characters, they have some value.
In any event, I never finished the project, though I did transcribe roughly 75,000 words. There are plenty of typos, and quite a few missing words, as the microfilm I was working from derived from a very worn copy. This is not a project I’ll ever return to, and since Google Books doesn’t seem to have found Sullivan’s work yet, I’ve posted the full text of what I transcribed after the jump.
Sullivan’s book should now be in the public domain, and I disclaim any rights to any value I’ve added (if, indeed, there is any). So use it however you want.
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