SKU: HP.C5561C

UPC: 763628955618. By Rick Founds. Psalms 40:8, John 12:32, Hebrews 7:19, Hebrews 10:1,22.

Popular praise song by Rick Founds The time-honored, Fanny Crosby hymn Close to Thee, is combined here with the popular praise song, Jesus, Draw Me Close by Rick Founds in a fresh, contemporary setting for blended worship. This heart-felt worship medley is a useful prayer, calling each of us to follow and obey. With or without the addition of the tasteful rhythm parts, this accessible anthem is easily learned and a delightful addition to any worship service. The Rhythm packet contains parts for Acoustic Guitar and Electric Bass.

SKU: HP.C5077R

UPC: 763628144548. By Rick Founds. Psalms 9:2, Psalms 18:49, Psalms 29:2, Psalms 34:3, Psalms 47:1-9, Psalms 66:4, Psalms 69:30, Psalms 113:1-3, John 3:16, Acts 1:1-11.

Contemporary Praise song by Rick Founds
Lord, I Lift Your Name on High by Rick Founds continues to hold its position at the top of the CCLI charge. Arranger, Douglas Wagner, has provided a skillful setting for SATB choir with a dynamic and supportive keyboard accompaniment. Don't miss the verse of original music and words Doug has added, heightening the overall impact of the song. The optional rhythm parts and track are a perfect source for bringing the contemporary 'acoustic' sound into your service.

SKU: GI.G-9538INST

UPC: 785147953890.

  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.