Welcome to Volume 2 of 50 Favorite Hymns for Solo and DuetInstruments. This collection is for the student or church musician?anyone who loves to play hymns. All books in thisseries are written so that instruments can be mixed and matched. One or twoverses are provided with optional duet parts. Arranged at the earlyintermediate level, these selections are suitable for worship or as anaccompaniment to congregational singing. Hymns may vary slightly from their originalhymnal keys. However, since they are written in comfortable instrumental ranges,this makes them easy to sing. The hymns with their concert keys are as follows:



Alas and Did My Savior Bleed, E-flat

Break Thou the Bread of life, E-flat

Brethren We Have Met to Worship, A-flat

Bring Them In, A-flat

Burdens Rolled Away, F

Deeper, Deeper in the Love of Jesus, A-flat

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken, E-flat

Face to Face with Christ My Savior, B-flat

Have Thine Own Way Lord, E-flat

God Will Take Care of You, B-flat

Grace Greater Than Our Sin, F

Holy God We Praise Thy Name, F

I am Resolved, B-flat

I am Thine Oh Lord, A-flat

I Gave My Life for Thee, B-flat

I need Thee Every Hour, F

I Will Sing of My Redeemer, A-flat

I Will Sing the Wondrous Story, E-flat

Ive Got Peace Like a River, F

Jesus Calls Us O?er the Tumult, A-flat

Jesus is All the World to Me, A-flat

Jesus is Tenderly Calling, B-flat

Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross, F

Jesus Loves Even Me, A-flat

Jesus Paid it All, E-flat

Let All Things Now Living, F

Let Us Break Bread Together, E-flat

Lily of the Valley, the, F

Living for Jesus, F

Lord I Want to Be a Christian in My Heart, E-flat

May the Grace of Christ Our Savior, F

More Love to Thee, F

Near to the Heart of God, E-flat

Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, G-minor

Open My Eyes That I May See, A-flat

Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart, F

Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior, A-flat

Rise Up Oh Men of God, F

Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us 1, F

Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us2, D-flat

Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart, C

Take the Name of Jesus With You, A-flat

Take Time to Be Holy, F

The Church?s One Foundation, E-flat

There?s a Wideness in God?s Mercy, G

There?s a New Name Written Down in Glory, B-flat

Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, F

Were Marching to Zion, F

We?ve a Story to Tell to the Nations, E-flat

Why Do I Sing About Jesus? A-flat

Thisnew collection of Thanksgiving and Harvest hymns contains all your favorites,or at least, most of them. It?s probably all you?ll ever need for thanksgivingand harvest festivals and the arrangements can be used for virtually anycombination of stringed instruments. This is an essential title for any stringlibrary or for any string ensembles that are called upon to provide music forschools, Thanksgiving events or churches.

Thearrangements can be used with string quartet, string quintet or string ensembleor performed as solo pieces. There?s also an optional but useful simplifiedkeyboard part intended for less experienced keyboard players. The piano parttoo means that you can use the arrangements as solos, duets or trios. Thesearrangements are intended either as stand-alone pieces that could be used asinterludes in a service, or they could be used to accompany solo, choral orcongregational singing. To make the music accessible to less experienced stringplayers, the range of the notes has been kept fairly low so that many of thearrangements can be played in first position. However, to produce a brighterand richer sound, a few of the more experienced violinists could play an octavehigher. You could also use the arrangements as flute or oboe solo pieces, with thewind instrument playing the 1st violin part. Each hymn has a four-staff scoreand parts are provided for Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello and optional Doublebass. The scores and all the parts are contained in a single PDF file. Becausestring-friendly keys are used, these arrangements are NOT compatible with thosein the wind collection of the same name.

Thefollowing 25 hymns are included: AllCreatures of our God and King (Lasst uns Erfreuen); As the Sun doth Daily Rise(Innocents); All Things Bright and Beautiful (Bright and Beautiful); Bringingin the Sheaves (Sowing in the Morning); Come Ye Thankful People Come (StGeorge?s Windsor); Fair Waved the Golden Corn (Holyrood); Fill your Hearts withJoy and Gladness (Ode to Joy); For the Beauty of the Earth (Dix); For theFruits of His Creation (Ar Hyd y Nos); Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken(Austrian Hymn); Immortal, Invisible (St Denio); Let all Things now Living (AshGrove); Let us with a Gladsome Mind (Monkland); Now Thank we all Our God (Nundanket); Praise and Thanksgiving (Bunessan); Praise God for the Harvest(Stowey); Praise my Soul the King of Heaven (Lauda anima); Praise to the Lordthe Almighty (Lob den herren); Rejoice the Lord is King (Darwall?s 148th);Sing to the Lord of Harvest (Wie lieblich ist der maien); This is my Father?s World(Terra Beata); To thee, O Lord, our Hearts we Raise (Golden Sheaves); We GatherTogether (Kremser); We Plough the Fields and Scatter (Wir pfl�gen) and PraiseGod from whom all Blessings Flow (Old Hundredth)