This collection of ?Easy String Trios? contains 10 hymns arranged for VIOLIN, VIOLA, and CELLO. These fun-to-learn arrangements are a welcome addition to the repertoire for beginning string students and suitable for recitals and worship services. The theme of each hymn centers around giving thanks and is equally suited for the Thanksgiving season as well as other times of year to encourage a spirit of gratitude.

All notes for each instrument are playable in the first position making these arrangements an excellent choice for early-intermediate string players. For each song, there is a combined score (grand staff) with all three parts on each page plus separate 1-staff scores for the VIOLIN, VIOLA, and CELLO.

Each song is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples.

Song titles included in this collection:
All Creatures of Our God and King
Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Count Your Blessings
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Ode to Joy)
Now Thank We All Our God
Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology)
Praise to the Lord
Rejoice, the Lord Is King
We Gather together

"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.

This popular hymn composed in 1861 is arranged for intermediate string trio (violin, viola, cello). Each player gets a turn at the melody, or part of it. The piece begins as a duet between violin and viola. The second stanza brings in the cello. Lots of nice interplay among the three parts. Suitable for worship services and church concerts. Concert key: G major.

Anthony Giamanco is a member of ASCAP. His many piano, organ, choir, and chamber works are in the catalogs of numerous publishers including GIA, Shawnee Press, Alfred, Augsburg Fortress, Lorenz, and others. His pieces also can be purchased through sheetmusicplus.com, Sheet Music Marketplace, and JW Pepper.