The fifth of a series of five volumes that are geared toward smaller lever harps with a bass range that goes to the G which is one and ½ octaves below middle C. Volume five includes songs for Lent, Easter and Pentecost. These tunes have the added benefit of being arranged in keys that are accessible to most vocal ranges, which is especially helpful when playing along with congregational singing. Lever changes are indicated with diamond shaped notes. Some tunes have no lever changes, some have a lot. The left hand in a few of the tunes is quite active. 75 tunes, in all.
Table of Contents:
In the Hour of Trial, We Give Immortal Praise, Soldiers of Christ, Arise, How Firm a Foundation, Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone, Lord Jesus Christ, My Life, My Light, Near to the Heart of God, Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken, Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee, Lenten Hymn, Break Thou the Bread of Life, O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High, Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face, Tell Me the Story of Jesus, Forty Days and Forty Nights, Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus, O Day of Rest and Gladness, Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above, Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying, The Lord Jehovah Reigns, Come, Thou Almighty King, Day by Day and with Each Passing Moment, I'll Praise My Maker While I've Breath, Ah, Holy Jesus, According to Thy Gracious Word, All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name, Jesus, Priceless Treasure, Before Jehovah's Awful Throne, There Is a Balm in Gilead, O Love That Will Not Let Me Go, Bread of Heaven, on Thee We Feed, Awake, My Soul, and With the Sun, The Heavens Declare Thy Glory, Lord, O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, Come, Christians, Join to Sing, A Wonderful Savior Is Jesus My Lord, I Am Thine, O Lord, I Am His, and He Is Mine, Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, Amazing Grace!, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross, Jesus Paid It All, There Is a Green Hill Far Away, Were You There?, Behold the Savior of Mankind, At Calvary, Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain, The Old Rugged Cross, In the Cross of Christ I Glory, All Glory, Laud and Honor, O Sacred Head, Now Wounded, And Can It Be That I Should Gain?, The Day of Resurrection, Go To Dark Gethsemane, Hosanna, Loud Hosanna, Jesus Lives, and So Shall I, Christ, the Lord Is Risen Today, Bread of the World, in Mercy Broken, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Cross of Jesus, Cross of Sorrow, The Head That Once Was Crowned, My Savior's Love, The Strife Is O'er, The Battle Done, Christ Arose!, Never Further than Thy Cross, Beneath the Cross of Jesus, Let Us Break Bread Together, Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?, Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands, What Wondrous Love Is This?, Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, Loved With Everlasting Love, Low in the Grave He Lay, O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing, Welcome, Happy Morning

The national anthem of the USA arranged for full orchestra. There are also versions for Brass Quintet & String Orchestra in my stores.


"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the Defence of Fort M'Henry, a poem written on September 14, 1814, by the then 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the large U.S. flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes, known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort during the U.S. victory.

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The Anacreontic Song"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", it soon became a well-known U.S. patriotic song. With a range of 19 semitones, it is known for being very difficult to sing. Although the poem has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today.

"The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the United States Navy in 1889, and by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1508, codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301), which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.

Before 1931, other songs served as the hymns of U.S. officialdom. "Hail, Columbia" served this purpose at official functions for most of the 19th century. "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen", the United Kingdom's national anthem, also served as a de facto national anthem. Following the War of 1812 and subsequent U.S. wars, other songs emerged to compete for popularity at public events, among them "America the Beautiful", which itself was being considered before 1931, as a candidate to become the national anthem of the United States.

John Stafford Smith (30 March 1750 ? 21 September 1836) was a British composer, church organist, and early musicologist. He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Stafford Smith is best known for writing the music for "The Anacreontic Song", which became the tune for the US patriotic song "The Star-Spangled Banner" following the War of 1812, and in 1931 was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.

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Arranged for Solo Bb Brass & Piano "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.

The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro. The Stan Getz recording featuring the vocal debut of Astrud Gilberto became an international hit. This version had been shortened from the version on the album Getz/Gilberto (recorded in March 1963, released in March 1964) which had also included the Portuguese lyrics sung by Astrud's then husband João Gilberto. In the US, the single peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and went to number one for two weeks on the Easy Listening chart. Overseas it peaked at number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charted highly throughout the world.

Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché. It is believed to be the second most recorded pop song in history, after "Yesterday" by The Beatles. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2009, the song was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 27th greatest Brazilian song.

Ipanema is a fashionable seaside neighborhood located in the southern region of the city of Rio de Janeiro.


Helô Pinheiro, the woman who inspired the song, in 2006.
The song was composed for a musical comedy titled Dirigível (Blimp), then a work-in-progress of Vinicius de Moraes. The original title was "Menina que Passa" ("The Girl Who Passes By"); the first verse was different. Jobim composed the melody on his piano in his new house in Rua Barão da Torre, in Ipanema. In turn, Moraes had written the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro, as he had done with "Chega de Saudade" ("No More Blues") six years earlier.

During a recording session in New York with João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz, the idea of cutting an English-language version came up. Norman Gimbel wrote the English lyrics. João's wife, Astrud Gilberto, was the only one of the Brazilians who could speak English well and was chosen to sing. Her voice, without trained singer mannerisms, proved a perfect fit for the song. Ethel Ennis and Nat King Cole have also both recorded the song.

The song was inspired by Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now known as Helô Pinheiro), a seventeen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in Ipanema. Daily, she would stroll past the Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ("each day when she walks to the sea"), but in the everyday course of her life. She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound of wolf-whistles. In the winter of 1962, the composers saw the girl pass by the bar. Since the song became popular, she has become a celebrity.

In Revelação: a verdadeira Garôta de Ipanema ("Revealed: The Real Girl from Ipanema") Moraes wrote that she was "the paradigm of the young Carioca: a golden teenage girl, a mixture of flower and mermaid, full of light and grace, the sight of whom is also sad, in that she carries with her, on her route to the sea, the feeling of youth that fades, of the beauty that is not ours alone?it is a gift of life in its beautiful and melancholic constant ebb and flow."

Ella Fitzgerald recorded this song on her two-disc set of Brazilian music Ella Abraca Jobim, released on the label [[Pablo today}] in 1981.

The legacy of "The Girl from Ipanema" was acknowledged by multiple aspects of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro: the Olympic and Paralympic mascots were respectively named Vinicius and Tom after the song's co-writers by a public vote, while the Olympics' opening ceremony featured a segment themed around the song and the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. Jobim's grandson Daniel performed the song during the segment, which also featured an appearance by Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen. Spotify reported that the song had been streamed on its service 40,000 times per-day in the days following the ceremony (a 1200% increase), while in the U.S., the song reached #5 on Billboard's World Digital Songs chart the following week.

Song List: Asleep on the Hay Christ is Born Today Here Within the Stable Tidings of Joy Silent Night, Holy Night Christmas Day In the Morning

Happy Birthday arranged for flute choir: piccolo and 3 flutes.

Happy Birthday arranged for solo cello.

Happy Birthday arranged for solo cello with optional piano accompaniment.

According to Grandma, Palm Sunday was always a special day at her church. The little children came into the sanctuary waving palms and shouting "Hosanna!" This piano version of the hymn "Hosanna, Loud Hosanna" (tune ELLACOMBE) was written a little before Grandma's time, and it's still a favorite today. Perfect for a regal entrance for the palm-waving little ones or a majestic offertory for Palm Sunday or Easter. Key of Bb, four pages, performance time: 2:10, no key changes. Intermediate level.

From Palm Sunday to the Resurrection, this collection of hymns are specially arranged for unaccompanied solo instruments.

Song list:


Behold, the Lord to Zion Rides 27. Low in the Grave He Lay

Hosanna, Loud Hosanna 28. God So Loved the World

Palm Sunday 29. Crown Him With Many Crowns

Triumphal Entry 30. Alive Again

Lift Up Your Heads 31. Alle Meschen Mussen Sterben

All Glory, Laud, and Honor 32. Thine Is the Glory

How Great Thou Art 33. At Eastertime

Come, Faithful People 34. The Day of Resurrection

So Lowly Doth the Savior Ride 35. Beautiful Easter

There Was a Time When Children Sang 36. Easter People, Raise Your Voices

Go To Dark Gethsemane 37. Ascension Hymn

Let Us Break Bread Together 38. Brighter Are the Sunbeams

Jesus Paid It All 39. Resurrexit

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross 40. He Is Risen

Down at the Cross 41. The Bell of Easter

There is a Fountain 42. Easter Carol

Near the Cross 43. Cristo Vive

What Wondrous Love Is This 44. The Easter Dawn

Alas and Did My Savior Bleed 45. Easter, Joyous Easter

And Can It Be 46. We Welcome Glad Easter

Blessed Redeemer 47. Easter Visits Earth Again

The Way of the Cross Leads Home 48. Glad Easter Morn

They Led My Lord Away 49. Hark, the Springtide Breezes

Crucifixion Spiritual 50. Sweet Easter-Time

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today 51. Look, Ye Saints!

Rock of Ages 52. The Song of the Morning

From Palm Sunday to the Resurrection, this collection of hymns are specially arranged for unaccompanied solo instruments.

Song list:


Behold, the Lord to Zion Rides 27. Low in the Grave He Lay

Hosanna, Loud Hosanna 28. God So Loved the World

Palm Sunday 29. Crown Him With Many Crowns

Triumphal Entry 30. Alive Again

Lift Up Your Heads 31. Alle Meschen Mussen Sterben

All Glory, Laud, and Honor 32. Thine Is the Glory

How Great Thou Art 33. At Eastertime

Come, Faithful People 34. The Day of Resurrection

So Lowly Doth the Savior Ride 35. Beautiful Easter

There Was a Time When Children Sang 36. Easter People, Raise Your Voices

Go To Dark Gethsemane 37. Ascension Hymn

Let Us Break Bread Together 38. Brighter Are the Sunbeams

Jesus Paid It All 39. Resurrexit

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross 40. He Is Risen

Down at the Cross 41. The Bell of Easter

There is a Fountain 42. Easter Carol

Near the Cross 43. Cristo Vive

What Wondrous Love Is This 44. The Easter Dawn

Alas and Did My Savior Bleed 45. Easter, Joyous Easter

And Can It Be 46. We Welcome Glad Easter

Blessed Redeemer 47. Easter Visits Earth Again

The Way of the Cross Leads Home 48. Glad Easter Morn

They Led My Lord Away 49. Hark, the Springtide Breezes

Crucifixion Spiritual 50. Sweet Easter-Time

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today 51. Look, Ye Saints!

Rock of Ages 52. The Song of the Morning

From Palm Sunday to the Resurrection, this collection of hymns are specially arranged for unaccompanied solo instruments.

Song list:


Behold, the Lord to Zion Rides 27. Low in the Grave He Lay

Hosanna, Loud Hosanna 28. God So Loved the World

Palm Sunday 29. Crown Him With Many Crowns

Triumphal Entry 30. Alive Again

Lift Up Your Heads 31. Alle Meschen Mussen Sterben

All Glory, Laud, and Honor 32. Thine Is the Glory

How Great Thou Art 33. At Eastertime

Come, Faithful People 34. The Day of Resurrection

So Lowly Doth the Savior Ride 35. Beautiful Easter

There Was a Time When Children Sang 36. Easter People, Raise Your Voices

Go To Dark Gethsemane 37. Ascension Hymn

Let Us Break Bread Together 38. Brighter Are the Sunbeams

Jesus Paid It All 39. Resurrexit

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross 40. He Is Risen

Down at the Cross 41. The Bell of Easter

There is a Fountain 42. Easter Carol

Near the Cross 43. Cristo Vive

What Wondrous Love Is This 44. The Easter Dawn

Alas and Did My Savior Bleed 45. Easter, Joyous Easter

And Can It Be 46. We Welcome Glad Easter

Blessed Redeemer 47. Easter Visits Earth Again

The Way of the Cross Leads Home 48. Glad Easter Morn

They Led My Lord Away 49. Hark, the Springtide Breezes

Crucifixion Spiritual 50. Sweet Easter-Time

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today 51. Look, Ye Saints!

Rock of Ages 52. The Song of the Morning

Taken from the film The Holiday this wonder score by Hans Zimmer has been reduced for string quartet. Please note this is an advanced arrangement.

The 11 songs in this collection of mixed-level piano duets (for 1 piano, 4 hands) are arranged for a beginning student to play the PRIMO while the teacher, parent, or an intermediate student plays the SECONDO. All notes in the PRIMO are played singly with the hands in one position centered around middle C and then played one octave higher.

Each song is presented in two formats: on a grand staff (a combined score with both piano parts on each page) plus the alternate format with the PRIMO and SECONDO on separate pages.

Most of the songs are written in the key of C major and do not require using flats or sharps. However, there are a few songs in the key of G major (1 sharp) or F major (1 flat). These songs provide practice playing notes on the black keys (either an F-sharp for the key of G major or a B-flat for the key of F major).

These fun-to-learn arrangements are a welcome addition to the piano repertoire for beginning students and suitable for recitals or just some family fun around the piano during the holiday season. Selections include classics associated with the winter holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year?s. Each song is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples.

Song titles included in this collection:
Auld Lang Syne
Good King Wenceslas
Hallelujah Chorus
Jingle Bells
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
O Christmas Tree
Over the River and Through the Woods
Patapan
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Up On the Housetop
We Wish You a Merry Christmas