Piano solo sheet music songbook featuring original, sad piano music from the popular CrusaderBeach ?Piano Songs? albums. This 40-page songbook is a collection of beautiful, emotional, sad piano pieces by CrusaderBeach, all with reflective, melancholy melodies. Appropriate atmospheric music for moments of personal reflection, sadness, worship or special occasions such as remembrance service, contemplative interlude during church ceremony, memorial or funeral service.​

Comprising quality sheet music for ten modern piano songs: ?Falling Star?, ?Random Acts?, ?Leaving?, ?43?, ?Weaver's Song?, ?The Girl Who Loved The World?, ?Ivana?, ?The Last Dance?, ?Shine? and ?Responsible For You?. All CrusaderBeach solo piano music has been composed by Adrian Webster (PRS CAE/IPI: 702739746).​

If you like the contemporary instrumental, new age music of Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma, Yann Tiersen, Michele McLaughlin, Jon Schmidt of the Piano Guys, George Winston or David Lanz, you'll enjoy playing the beautiful, original piano music of CrusaderBeach.​

The song sheets are a popular choice with piano players, music teachers, students and wedding pianists. CrusaderBeach songs are available to download and stream from all major outlets (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc.) and are regularly used as background music for short films and wedding ceremonies.​

To view videos of this music, check out CrusaderBeach on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6-Lzfkq9-TE​

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This collection of 10 piano solos features calming and comforting arrangements of favorite hymns appropriate for funerals or memorial services. Flowing and peaceful, these beautiful arrangements can be used for other occasions as well and are a welcome addition to the church pianist\'s sacred repertoire. The songs are arranged (both thematically and musically) so that they flow nicely from one to the next for continuous, extended play.

Each of the 10 arrangements is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples.

Titles included in this collection:
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
Does Jesus Care?
Ivory Palaces
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Safe in the Arms of Jesus
The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended
\'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
Trusting Jesus
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Whispering Hope

Edward Elgar composed his Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, popularly known as the Enigma Variations, between October 1898 and February 1899. It is an orchestral work comprising fourteen variations on an original theme.

Elgar dedicated the work "to my friends pictured within", each variation being a musical sketch of one of his circle of close acquaintances (see musical cryptogram). Those portrayed include Elgar's wife Alice, his friend and publisher Augustus J. Jaeger and Elgar himself.

In naming his theme "Enigma" Elgar posed a challenge which has generated much speculation but has never been conclusively answered. The Enigma is widely believed to involve a hidden melody.

The name of the variation IX (NIMROD) refers to Augustus J. Jaeger, who was employed as music editor by the London publisher Novello & Co. He was a close friend of Elgar's, giving him useful advice but also severe criticism, something Elgar greatly appreciated. Elgar later related how Jaeger had encouraged him as an artist and had stimulated him to continue composing despite setbacks. Nimrod is described in the Old Testament as "a mighty hunter before the Lord", Jäger being German for hunter.

In 1904 Elgar told Dora Penny ("Dorabella") that this variation is not really a portrait, but "the story of something that happened". Once, when Elgar had been very depressed and was about to give it all up and write no more music, Jaeger had visited him and encouraged him to continue composing. He referred to Ludwig van Beethoven, who had a lot of worries, but wrote more and more beautiful music. "And that is what you must do", Jaeger said, and he sang the theme of the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 Pathétique. Elgar disclosed to Dora that the opening bars of "Nimrod" were made to suggest that theme. "Can't you hear it at the beginning? Only a hint, not a quotation."

This variation has become popular in its own right and is sometimes used at British funerals, memorial services, and other solemn occasions. It is always played at the Cenotaph, Whitehall in London at the National Service of Remembrance. A version was also played during the Hong Kong handover ceremony in 1997 and at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ?Nimrod? variation was the final orchestral composition (before the national anthem) played by the Greek National Orchestra in a televised June 2013 concert, before the 75-year-old Athenian ensemble was dissolved in the wake of severe government cutbacks.

An adaptation of the piece appears at the ending of the 2017 film Dunkirk as part of the score

Solitudeis Oneself: Three piano pieces:

1 NeverUnderestimate the Difficulties of Simple Things

2 Too MuchBut Still Not Enough

3 Waitingfor Perfection is Waiting Forever

Tranquil, relaxing, "chill",minimalist, expressive music for solo piano.

You can "use" this music formeditation, study, learning, sleeping, relax or praying.

The phrase wherethe title (Solitude is Oneself)comes from belongs to Javier Adúriz (1948-2011), Argentine poet, one ofmy best teachers and friends (the original Spanish reads "La soledad es uno mismo").

Don'tsee any negative aspects in Solitude. In Spanish there is only one word forSolitude and Loneliness (namely "Soledad"). Loneliness is a state ofisolation, without dialog, feeling abandoned and without external points ofreference. But I conceive Solitude as a highely creative state, in which one isfaced to what one actually wants to achieve, with one's thoughts, with one'sself.

NeverUnderestimate the Difficulties of Simple Things. Lots of times I have seenthis in several persons - and in myself: when something is simple, easy anduncomplicated, we tend to underestimate it too much and its hidden difficultiesend up tackling us. We leave to the last moment a text that seems easy tolearn, and we do not assimilate it as we could. Or a chess game that is(really) won, but we feel over-confident, we play with superficiality, we makeslight mistakes one after the other and loose control of the situation.

Thistitle can be understood as self-referent: this particular piano piece seems tobe simple... until you try to perform it really well and record it.

About the ArtWork / Cover Art of Solitudeis Oneself:

It shows a human face (concretely the composer's)faced simmetrically to its silhouette, in black. This illustration alludes tothe title: Solitude is Oneself. Is oneself (the person) facing his ownsolitude, his internal misterious being. A real human facing his own shadow. Itis not a negative shadow: is the shadow of which Shamanism speaks, the ownshadow from where one draws strength.

The music is dedicated to Mr. Cadmiel Pérez from República Dominicana.

Solitude isOneself was recorded by the composer and released as single on Friday 17August 2018 on Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, Qobuz, Tidal, Amazon mp3 and nearly all streaming platforms you canimagine.

In Spotify is here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6KffxzDSVYJqZuNEK3Bj0h

In Bandcamp is here:

https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/album/solitude-is-oneself

If you readSpanish you can find more about this music here:

https://es.quora.com/blog/musica-neoclasica/La-soledad-es-uno-mismo-m%C3%BAsica-para-piano

These are 19 arrangements of beloved hymns as heard on Stevens' new piano album to be released on Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, iTunes, and other venues in September 2019. The selections vary from intermediate to moderately advanced and are appropriate for sacred settings, recitals, weddings, funerals, and repertoire. James Michael Stevens is a prolific composer residing in Nashville, TN and serves as the Music Department Chairman of Welch College. The MP3 is of "In the Garden" and the video of "Nearer My God To Thee."

This piano solo arrangement of the familiar hymn tune SPARROW by Charles Gabriel begins in the key of C major and then broadens as it steps up to the key of D major for the final chorus. This peaceful, yet elegant arrangement of this much-loved song of encouragement is suitable for preludes and offertories as well as an ideal selection for memorial services or funerals. Duration 2:50.

This arrangement is one of the 16 piano solos in the collection "Hymn Favorites, Book 3."