SKU: GI.G-9538G

UPC: 785147953876.

  Revival is a long overdue resource that provides fresh accessible arrangements of classic hymns for contemporary ensembles. Each arrangement is scored for SAB choir, piano, guitar, and optional instrumental parts. For added texture, the final stanza of each hymn includes an alternate harmonization of the accompaniment with a soprano descant. These fourteen arrangements will open a whole new set of treasured hymns to piano and guitar based ensembles. Compatible with the versions founds in GIA’s most recent hymnals, each of these arrangements is intended to support and inspire the sung prayer of the assembly. Every one will find a comfortable home in your repertoire throughout the liturgical year! A special spiral bound edition of Revival is also available. This edition is perfect for accompanists who would also like to use these hymn arrangements as preludes, interludes, or postludes. Collections like Revival are not simply a way for contemporary ensembles to plant deeper roots and tap into more traditional repertoires. It is a way for all of us to hear old hymns with new ears, in a new way. --Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, Associate Professor of Theology at St. John's Abbey Quote from Pray Tell Blog. Click here to read full article Tony Alonso’s Revival offers us fourteen wonderfully arranged familiar hymns—musically accessible and a delight to sing. Flexibly crafted for voices, piano and guitar with lovely optional descants, this is an ecumenical gift and bridge-builder between classical and contemporary approaches to hymns in the liturgy. It should be in every parish’s working library. --Don Saliers, Professor of Theology and Worship at the Candler School of Theology In his new collection, Revival, Tony Alonso marks the 500th anniversary of a great divide in the church by bridging the chasm between Catholic and Protestant, contemporary and traditional, Appalachian and European. His arrangements for voices, piano, and guitar—with options for using other instruments as well—allow for improvisation and adaptation while remaining accessible for a wide range of musicians. Although these hymns are designed to be used by contemporary ensembles, they lend themselves to use in a variety of worshiping contexts. Alonso's arrangements will entice you to sing along--Revival is a great gift to the whole church! --Kimberly Bracken Long, Editor of Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching, & the Arts Tony Alonso’s, Revival, is an invaluable resource to help find common ground among “contemporary” and “traditional” choirs and ensembles by making hymnody approachable to those who may have shied away from it for stylistic reasons. It is also a great educational tool for organists and pianists who are seeking ways to improve their improvisatory keyboard skills by modeling accompaniment styles and improvisatory patterns that support and enhance the singing of traditional hymns. ​--​Dominic Trumfio, Associate Director of Worship Music at Old St. Patrick's Church, Chicago.

SKU: GI.G-9900G

UPC: 785147990079.

OUR BEST SELLING RESOURCE AT NPM 2019! Following the successful release of Revival in 2017, Tony Alonso has arranged an additional 14 hymns for use throughout the liturgical year. Keeping true to the previous form, these editions exhibit the same careful SAB vocal scoring, accompaniment suitable for piano- and guitar-based ensembles, and fine part-writing for additional instruments. Also included is an alternate final stanza with reharmonization and descant. These beloved congregational hymns will find new life through these fresh arrangements for contemporary ensembles. CONTENTS: All Creatures of Our God and King • All People That on Earth Do Dwell / Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow • Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life • For All The Saints • Holy God, We Praise Thy Name • I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say • I Know That My Redeemer Lives! • In Christ There Is No East or West • I Sing The Mighty Power of God • Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You / Sing With All the Saints In Glory • My Shepherd Will Supply My Need • On Jordan’s Bank • The Glory of These Forty Days • There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy.