Song List: Across a Dark, Autumnal Sky I Saw a Flock of Wild Geese Fly (Honking Hymn) As Everyone Knows, or Thinks They Know from the Book of Genesis (The Tale of a Snake) A Stable Lamp Is Lighted Every Hair upon Your Head Fancy Noah Sailing in the Ark (Rainbow People) For Everyone Born a Place a the Table Gentle God, the Candle Flickers God in the Darkness, God Beyond Our Knowing God of the Bible, God in the Gospel(Fresh as the Morning) God Rest Us, Rest that Part of Us which Is Tired Great and Deep the Spirit's Purpose Here to Celebrate God's Loving How Much Am I Worth? I'm a Fishbowl Christian I'm Gonna Take Another Step Along the Way (Treksong) It All Depends on Where I'm Going Listen to the Voices, Listen to the Voices of the Earth Lord, I Wait for the Tide to Turn Lord Jesus, Look on This We Do Merry Christmas Rag Nothing Is Lost on the Breath of God Now as We Go, Kind Spirit Keep Us O Spring in the Desert, O Shelter from Heat (Prayer for the Presence) Snap Us Out of It, Lord (The Ho-Hum Hymn) Sometimes the Boundless Beauty of the World Strong Word of God, Spoken to All The Grace of God on You Distill The Lord God Walked in Paradise (Callings) There's Straw in the Manger (The Folly of Love Carol) These Hills Where the Hawk Flies Lonely This Tree We Plant in Loving Memory When I Was a Child I Thought as a Child When Our Lives Know Sudden Shadow

The Best Hymns of All Time
Arranged for Strings by Colin Kirkpatrick

Book 3

We?re really excited to present the third and last book of our collection of sixty of the best-loved hymns ever composed. The hymns are scored in four parts and could be used with virtually any combination of stringed instruments: string quartet or quintet or any size string ensemble. They are presented in a set of three books and include full four-part instrumental scores plus four separate parts for 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola and cello (and double bass). The bass part is also optional because it doubles the cello part an octave lower. There?s also an optional but useful simplified keyboard part intended for less experienced keyboard players. The left hand plays only the bass part most of the time, with the right hand part kept as simple as possible. The piano part too means that you can use the arrangements as solos, duets or trios. To make the music accessible to less experienced players, the range of the notes has been kept fairly low so that many of the arrangements can be played in first position. However, to produce a brighter and richer sound, a few of the more experienced violinists could play an octave higher. You can hear this effect in the audio samples.

These arrangements are intended either as stand-alone pieces that could be used as interludes in a service, or they could be used to accompany solo, choral or congregational singing. This is essential music for schools and many churches and contains probably all the hymns you?ll ever need. The scores and all the parts of Book 2 are contained in a single 65-page PDF file.

Book 3 contains the following twenty popular hymns: All Hail the Power of Jesus? Name (Miles Lane); All things Bright and Beautiful (Bright and Beautiful); Alleluia, Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol); Blessed Assurance (Assurance); Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (St George?s Windsor); Father, Hear the Prayer we Offer (Sussex & Gott Will's Machen); For the Beauty of the Earth (Dix); Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken (Austrian hymn); How Firm a Foundation (Foundation); Jesu, Lover of my Soul (Hollingside); Jesus Loves Me, This I Know (Jesus Loves Me); Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Hymn to Joy); Kum Ba Yah (Afro-American folksong); Mine Eyes have Seen the Glory (Battle Hymn of the Republic); O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St. Anne); Morning has Broken (Bunessan); Praise to the Lord the Almighty (Lob den Herren); Shall We Gather at the River? (Hanson Place); The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni); When Peace Like a River (Ville du Havre).

The audio samples include (1) All things Bright and Beautiful, (2) How Firm a Foundation, (3) Kum Ba Yah and (4) Morning has Broken. The music has been set in string-friendly keys so they are not compatible with the brass collection of the same name.