"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is a 19th-century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, which retells the story of Jacob's dream. Genesis 28:11?12 can be translated as follows: "So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it..."The hymn is well known, among other uses, as the alleged last song the band on RMS Titanic played before the ship sank and was sung by the crew and passengers of the SS Valencia as it sank off the Canadian coast in 1906.

"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, and was originally released in 1984. It has grown in popularity over the years and is now widely used in both secular and sacred settings. It was also featured in the film Shrek in 2001.

This arrangement is for String Trio, and as with most Zene Strings arrangements, gives each player an opportunity to play the melody.

There is a violin II part (treble clef) as well as a viola part (alto clef) included, so this trio can be played with either two violins and a cello, or a violin, viola and cello.

Enjoy -- from your friends at Zene Strings!