The Servant - Jerry Engelbach

[engelbach]

This is incidental music I wrote for a 1975 production of Robin Maugham's play The Servant, for the Classic Stage Company in New York.

A lead sheet can be found here.

Servant, The - Jerry Engelbach

Cheers,
Jer

 

[pdxdjazz]

Great work Jer.
Is there an audio track available somewhere for ear-players?

By using Fine to designate the end of the form (instead of the piece) you can save writing out the final A and have more chart-space to square-up the bridge.

Servant, The 2 - Jerry Engelbach

Thank you for generously sharing your work in the forums.
)BOB

 

[engelbach]

Thanks for the suggestion, Bob.

The only problem with that solution is that on the last pass it doesn't play the whole form, but jumps right from the first A section to the coda.

This solution seems to work:

Servant, The 3 - Jerry Engelbach

Cheers,
Jer

 

[pdxdjazz]

Thanks for catching and fixing my “oops”.
You’re right of course.
On the Final player repeat, as soon as the player gets to the coda sign, it jumps.

Sometimes my wheels fall off when I unexpectedly encounter mixed length bars.
That said, I have also been known to screw-up 3rd endings hiding at the bottom.
No problem here since the content is the same…
Learning how to speak “player” is tricky.
)BOB

 

[engelbach]

You got that right.

The limitations of iReal Pro make using it for complex song forms a whole programming language.

One can't just input directly from sheet music and get the repeats, signs, and codas right.