The Sam Jones Collection

Sam Jones had a phenomenal talent for writing hymns, 467 of which have been preserved in this collection. Many of his hymns have been included in the various printed editions of Hymns Old and New. The Sam Jones Collection is a CD containing three historical collections of his hymns that have been scanned from the original, limited production runs, and a version that has been retypeset in the months leading up to 2009. It also includes some historical information about Sam Jones, sketches drawn by Sam, pictures of some areas he labored in, and various historical articles about his life and hymn writing.

The outline below describes the content of the CD. The indexes give the list of hymns in the various books. Here are samples of Sam's handwriting in the handwritten edition, and of the typesetting in the modern edition.

Inquiries

The description of the CD, below, also describes the contained books, whether examined electronically, or obtained in printed form.

About this CD

Changes in past and future versions can be found at this errata page.

In brief

Any MIDI player can play the hymns for learning the tunes and timing. On Windows, the NoteWorthy Composer Player can be used to play the hymns. See the 2 Play Modern Edition folder.

Individual hymns or the whole collection may be printed on A4 or Letter size papers, from the 3 Print Metric Modern Edition or 4 Print Letter Modern Edition folders and subfolders, respectively.

Copies of this CD, and printed, spiral bound books of the Modern Edition, Handwritten edition, and some books of poems are also available. For these, or other questions about this collection, email SJhymns@rkivs.com or inquire via this web site: http://rkivs.com/digitalmusic/.

In full

The files on this Version 16 of the CD include:

• 1 Sam Jones Index folder
  • HTML indexes for all the hymns on this CD.
• 2 Play Modern Edition folder
  • This folder is prepared for those who wish to play the songs on their computer. If you have a MIDI player on your computer, the simplest way to play the songs is to use the files in the third directory, most likely just by clicking or double-clicking them to invoke the default MIDI player.
    
    As an alternative, on a Windows computer, the following instructions allow you to play the .nwc files found in the second folder; the advantage is that the player will also show you where in the music it is playing.
    • Run the file named setup_nwc25r6a_viewer.exe (located in NoteWorthy Player & Fonts sub-folder).
    • From the same directory, install the Boxmark2.ttf font (typically by drag-n-drop to C:\Windows\Fonts). The other fonts there may be useful if you have the full NoteWorthy Composer program.
    • Double-click the .nwc file you wish to play, from the NoteWorthy Individual Hymn Files sub-folder.
    • This is computer generated music, and lacks expression, but does give correct pitch and timing. It was considered a by-product of producing the printed books, therefore the additional work to provide music more pleasing to the ear was not carried out.
    
    
  • NoteWorthy Player & Fonts sub-folder
  • NoteWorthy Individual Hymn Files sub-folder
  • MIDI Files sub-folder
• 3 Print Metric Modern Edition folder
  • Books One and Two, both Covers and Pages are available directly in this folder.
  • PDF Individual Hymn Files sub-folder contains individual hymns which may be viewed or printed.
  • Words Only A5 sub-folder (Note that these files are set up as A5 size pages.)
• 4 Print Letter Modern Edition folder
  • Books One and Two, both Covers and Pages are available directly in this folder.
  • PDF Individual Hymn Files sub-folder contains individual hymns which may be viewed or printed.
  • Words Only HalfLetter sub-folder (Note that these files are set up as half-letter-size pages.)
• 5 History folder
  • Documents subfolder
    • Collected notes about Sam Jones' compositions and experiences.
  • Sub-folders for some of Sam's sketches; pictures of Sam & other workers, some pictures of Bethel and nearby areas, also Snug Cove on Kangaroo Island.
  • Pictures sub-folder
    • Includes Glen Williams' modern photos
    • Bethel, Stockport sub-folder
    • Kangaroo Island sub-folder
    • Oak Lodge, Kapunda sub-folder
    • Other Photos sub-folder
    • Other South Australia sub-folder
    • Photos of Sam Jones sub-folder
  • Sketches by Sam Jones sub-folder
• 6 Previous Editions folder
  • Handwritten sub-folder
    • This folder contains images of a book Sam kept with some handwritten, and some typed hymns. While the majority of the items in this book are his there is some material he did not compose.
    • Both Letter size and A4 size ready-to-print PDF files for this book. Note alternative pages are rotated 180 degrees ready to duplex print.
    • A PDF file with all the images combined into a single file, for viewing rather than printing.
    • Individual files for viewing sub-folder
      • The individual scanned TIFF files from the book Sam kept.
  • Historical Music sub-folder
    • In this are scans of a copy of one edition of Wilfred Geue's typeset edition of Sam's hymns, along with a revised version containing corrections made by Don Puffalt.
    • Typeset dp Individual Image Files for viewing sub-folder
      • The revised version is also available as individual image files for viewing
  • Historical Words Only sub-folder
    • Images of a collection of words only hymns, and some sayings and notes attributed to Sam that once were available from Miss Bailey, in Shropshire, England.
• 7 Poems folder
  • This folder contains a collection of poems that Sam created in book form. Most of the poems were written by Sam, but a few are by others, that he collected.
    • A4 PDF Books folder
    • Letter PDF Books folder
    • TIFF Original Scans for Books folder
    • Sam Jones Notebook
• 8 Other Information folder
  • This whole folder is useful only to people that wish to duplicate or modify this CD or the ready-to-print books contained within. Contained are Word and/or PDF files for the Index, Covers, and CD Label.
  • CD Manufacturing sub-folder
  • Index, Cover Page, etc_A4 sub-folder
  • Index, Cover Page, etc_Letter sub-folder

NoteWorthy notes

Those who have the full NoteWorthy Composer program may be interested in the following:

• A template (within NoteWorthy Composer) was used with 8 staffs for most of these hymns, to allow different voicing. Not all the available voices were used in most files.
• The staffs included in the template are: Soprano, Alto, Right Hand, RH Fill, Left Hand, LH Fill, Tenor & Bass.
• Voices allotted to the staffs for most hymns are respectively: Violin, Violin, Piano, Piano, Piano, Piano, Viola, Cello. But how these voices sound depends on the sound system in use!

• The NoteWorthy Player & Fonts sub-folder contains some other fonts which may be of interest for those who have the full NWC program. If the PardyFontPack files are installed there is no need to install the other individual font files.