Piano - Intermediate

SKU: LO.70-2222L

Composed by Larry Shackley. Sacred, Eastertide, Holy Week, Lent, Palm/Palm-Passion Sunday. Lorenz Publishing Company #70/2222L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.70-2222L).

ISBN 9780787767693.

Larry Shackley crafted ten original pieces that tell the story of Holy Week through musical vignettes. Ranging from celebratory to intensely dramatic and peaceful to tragic, these pieces will provide backgrounds, preludes, and meditations for all of your services between Palm Sunday and Easter.

Early intermediate

SKU: GI.G-10636

For Solo Piano. Composed by Conrad Kocher, Rowland Hugh Prichard, and William Moore. Arranged by Bob Moore. Tune Name: Beach Spring, Bunessan, Dix, Ellacombe, Holy Manna, Hyfrydol, Nettleton, Nicaea, Passion Chorale, St. Columba. Sacred. 32 pages. GIA Publications #10636. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-10636).

UPC: 785147063667.

For these piano pieces, Bob Moore has selected ten of the best-known, most widely-used hymn tunes. His approach, however, helps us encounter and hear them in new ways. Moore gives these pieces an improvisatory feel, yet makes the tunes readily recognizable for the listener. Well within the abilities of intermediate-level pianists, this is a collection you’ll turn to time and again.

(33 Pieces by 23 Composers). By Various. BH Piano. Softcover. 224 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051246601. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

Piano (Piano Solo)

SKU: HL.49047037

Piano Solo. Composed by Vijay Iyer. Piano Solo. Classical. Softcover. 11 pages. Duration 600 seconds. Schott Music #ED30416. Published by Schott Music (HL.49047037).

ISBN 9781705182024. UPC: 842819116998. 9.0x12.0x0.123 inches.

My father, Y. “Raghu” Raghunathan, came from India to the U.S. in 1963, followed soon after by my mother Sita. Dad enjoyed a substantial career as a pharmaceutical chemist, but he drew satisfaction from a simple life among family and friends, never allowing professional demands to overshadow his devotion to loved ones. Modest, compassionate, and ardently egalitarian, he was careful not to take anything too seriously, especially himself. He embraced his own ordinariness because it connected him to everyone else; it made him no better or worse than his neighbor, no more or less deserving of friendship or kindness than any of his fellow human beings. He showed us how to live with dignity, compassion, grace, and boundless love. His last piece of advice to me: “Go slow.” Several weeks after his passing, I happened upon a recording of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, opus 87. I couldn’t understand why at the time, but the sixteenth prelude and fugue took hold of me and would not let go. I completely immersed myself in that piece for ten days, until it became a mystical conduit for something else: in this semi-trance state I produced a prelude and fugue of my own, in prayer (orison) and in praise (upastuti). It shadows Shostakovich’s form, but it somehow expresses my father’s unhurried, loving spirit. I’ve come to believe that he sent me this piece as a blessing. I hope you feel his presence in it as I do. Vijay Iyer.

Composed by Thomas Keesecker. Offertories, Preludes. Passion/Palm Sunday, Lent, Holy Week, 21st Century. MorningStar Music Publishers #MSM-15-847. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers