90-day, project notes

Welcome to the Enthusiasm-Awakeners’ challenge, 90-days-for-90-Years [story].

Here is some background info about the materials posted on this site for the project.
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General info: You should be able to see the scores/sheetmusic right on your device (phone/computer) and you should not have to do any additional work to do the project. I know it is not ideal to have a computer/phone present for these devotional offerings but …

Notes about the numbering of these songs and the sound-quality of recordings.

“E.A.” indicates “Enthusiasm-Awakeners” — a singing group which was formed in December 1999 and focused on learning Sri Chinmoy English-language songs.

Notes about ‘mismatching’ numbers. Let me try and explain why the E.A.# and the number on the image do not match.

The numbers “E.A.#_” on the material pages indicate the order that the Enthusiasm-Awakeners learned the songs. These are mostly (but not completely) in the chronological order that Sri Chinmoy composed the songs.

The numbers on the images are the published Songbook numbers. While I could crop these to help you avoid confusion, I think it is more important to retain them for other reasons.

Because the E.A. numbering system is well-established in my files, I am following these numbers to avoid my own confusion.

I truly hope it is not too confusing for you! Just ‘trust the system’ and in a few days you will hopefully get used to this 🙂

Regarding the number of songs a day: the average will be 17-songs — but there will be days when this number will fluctuate due to pairings of songs and/or due to total length of time (i.e. most songs are short but when there are long songs, I may reduce the number for that day). 17 is not specifically significant, it is just an average number to accomplish 1529 songs in 90 days.

Recordings: these are only for learning purposes. Many were recorded on an old, portable cassette tape and have some distortion (in some cases, a lot of distortion!). For those of you who are good singers/musicians — you can just ignore the recordings.

Songs in this 90-Day for 90-Year song project can be searched via these methods (also see links to other websites above)

Alphabetical index of songs with links to Day’s set
PDF list with Songbook reference for all songs in project (note: once downloaded and opened in a PDF reader, this file is searchable and contains links to sets in project (by day), as well as a full Enthusiasm Songbook reference page (see pages 46-47).

Source files: The majority of these sets of songs are published in the Enthusiasm Songbooks, by Sri Chinmoy. Some are published in the God-Devotion-Teardrop (see at end of the following list). Others are in various songbooks, you can search on srichinmoysongs.com or srichinmoylibrary.com for these.

Sri Chinmoy composed over 23,000 songs in his lifetime (1931-2007) — primarily in the Bengali language (see here for more info). So the songs in these sets represents only a tiny, tiny portion of that vast collection

Here are links to the above mentioned Enthusiasm Songbooks

Enthusiasm! God’s Main Food Songbook
(aka Enthusiasm Songbook, Part 1), by Sri Chinmoy.

[link to this songbook]