Mandarin Memorial Songsheets Available

PDF files of songsheets for songs that may be used at Mandarin Memorials are now available for download from the Mandarin Memorial Songsheets page. These files can help to enable all in attendance at Mandarin Memorials to sing in Mandarin together, thus emphasizing our unity and resulting in more harmonious praise being offered at these special meetings.

Of note is the inclusion in these files of jianpu, or numbered musical notation. Many Chinese people are familiar with this type of musical notation, and find it easier to follow than the “standard” musical notation that uses a five-line staff.

Here is a description of the available files, of which there are both Simplified and Traditional Chinese versions:

• Song 8 (hanzi, pinyin, music, jianpu)
• Song 109 (hanzi, pinyin, music, jianpu)
• Songs 8 & 109 (hanzi (no pinyin), music, jianpu, both songs on one page)

No password is required to access these files. Thanks go out to the one who provided them. As he said,

“I’ve met quite a few Chinese who say they could join in our singing more if they had jianpu numbers, and ... it would be nice to have their help.”

UPDATE, Sun., Apr. 17, 2011, 2 pm PST: The song 109 files with pinyin have just been updated so that 长子/長子 is romanised as “zhǎngzǐ” instead of “chángzi”.