The UntraveledRoad Music Collection
The personal music site of Kelvin Smith
This collection of classical music scores and recordings has been prepared as a public service
and a personal hobby. Choral, organ, piano and vocal music are included. This music is all in the
public domain and may be printed and copied without restrictions. The scores are PDFs and can be
viewed and printed with Adobe's Acrobat Reader. The audio files are in the MP3 format.
The music we listen to and perform indicates something about the way we view our world. In our
increasingly secular world we hear much music that conveys a feeling of Godlessness, apathy and complacency.
The music included here expresses a different view of the world. It portrays a sense of order in the universe
and meaning in life, a respect for God, and a sense that man can rise above the weakness of human
nature. It is in this spirit, the desire to promote these idealogies, that this music has been
collected here.
Most of the choral music does not include the accompaniment, with the idea that the director and
accompanist will use a score from a separate source. The choral music is all layed out on
8.5 x 11 sheets.
The organ music is layed out on legal size sheets in landscape orientation. A growing number of
the organ pieces include fingerings. These I have copied from my scores and are nothing more or less
than the fingerings that I use. I hope they will be of use in getting a handle on some of these pieces.
They contain a few tricks that I didn't think of the first time through. Generally they assume five
finger patterns, and indicate changes when necessary. They avoid substitutions which are prone to
breakdowns under pressure, and use a lot of crossings. Pedaling is all marked under the staff with
the symbols pointing up or down to indicate which foot to use (up is right foot, down is left foot.)
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