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| Hymns for Our Time
Chorale SATB
SATB [Partition]
Hope Publishing Company
By Hal Hopson / Various authors. For Unison choir. Devotion, Hymntune, Sacred. H...(+)
By Hal Hopson / Various
authors. For Unison
choir. Devotion,
Hymntune, Sacred. Hymn
Collection. Author's
Collections. 114 pages
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| The Piano Treasury of Hymns
Piano seul [Partition + CD] - Facile
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Edited by Amy Appleby. Collection and examples CD for easy solo piano. Over 200 ...(+)
Edited by Amy Appleby.
Collection and examples
CD for easy solo piano.
Over 200 best-loved
Christian hymns that have
inspired praise and
worship for over four
centuries. Series: Piano
Treasury Series. 392
pages. Published by Music
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| Prophesies [Conducteur et Parties séparées]
Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114419030 Score...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2
SKU: PR.114419030
Score and Parts.
Composed by Mohammed
Fairouz. Sws. Score and
parts. With Standard
notation. 68 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41903. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114419030). ISBN
9781491114124. UPC:
680160669851. 9 x 12
inches. A
fascination with
polycultural synergy
between diverse literary
textsdrives the
inspiration for much of
Mohammed Fairouz’s
prodigiouscreative
output, including
instrumental music as
well as vocal. Inhis
profound and extensive
essay preceding the
score, Fairouz shedslight
on how Edgar Allen
Poe’s “Israfel”
relates to the
prophetsand prophesies of
the Quran, Old Testament,
and New Testament.The
eight-movement quartet
may be heard as a
dramatic galleryof
portraits and of
story-telling,
flourishing in a
post-traditionallanguage
that is at once
vernacular and spiritual,
Middle Easternand
Western. The complete set
of score and parts is
included in
thispublication.
(See
pages 2-3 of score for
clear distinction of
paragraphs,
etc.)Prophesies, by
Mohammed FairouzEdgar
Allen Poe’s rendition
of Israfel was the point
of departure for the
final movement of my
previous stringquartet
which is titled The Named
Angels. At the opening of
his poem, Poe evokes the
Quran:“And the angel
Israfel, whose
heartstrings are a lute,
and who has the sweetest
voice of all God’s
creatures.”This informs
the first lines of the
poem that, in turn, gave
me the title for the
final movement of The
Named
Angels,“Israfel’s
Spell”:In Heaven a
spirit doth dwell“Whose
heartstrings are a
lute”None sing so
wildly wellAs the angel
Israfel,And the giddy
stars (so legends
tell),Ceasing their
hymns, attend the spellOf
his voice, all mute.It is
the end of that poem,
however, that is the
starting point for the
current quartet,
Prophesies, which
concernsitself with
mortal prophets rather
than eternal Angelic
spirits.If I could
dwellWhere IsrafelHath
dwelt, and he where I,He
might not sing so wildly
wellA mortal melody,While
a bolder note than this
might swellFrom my lyre
within the sky.Islamic
thought has asked us to
look at the example of
the prophets. That’s
significant because of
the fact thatJoseph and
all the prophets were
human beings with the
flaws of human beings. No
prophet was perfect,
andIslamic tradition has
never asked its followers
to aspire to the example
of the Angels, the
perfected ones. Instead
weare given the gift of
our prophets. While The
Named Angels drew on the
motion and energy of
everlasting
spirits,Prophesies is a
depiction of the
movements within our own
mortal coil.This quartet
is a continuation of a
long tradition of Muslim
artists telling their
stories and singing their
songs.Many of these
renditions are, in fact,
figurative and (contrary
to popular belief) the
Quran contains no
“Islamicedict”
prohibiting figurative
renditions of the figures
described in the Old
Testament, New Testament,
or Quran.The majority of
artists, however, have
preferred eternal and
abstract forms such as
words and their
calligraphicrepresentatio
ns, poems (Yusuf and
Zuleikha or the
Conference of Birds come
immediately to mind),
architecture,and many
other non-figurative art
forms to the
representation of man.
These cold, ancient, and
everlasting shapesof
unending time flourished,
and the divine infinity
of representing geometric
forms gained favor over
the placementof the
explicit representation
of mankind and our own
likeness at the center of
the universes.Adding the
string quartet to these
forms which express the
recursive spheres of
heavens and earth
abstractly shouldexplain
why I have chosen to
render higher things
through the use of music
without the addition of
words or anyother
art-form. It is the
abstract art of pure
form, in which all is
form and all is content,
which compels me.
Thisquartet should be
seen as no more
programmatic than the
arches of the Great
Mosque at Cordoba.The
first movement, Yāqub
(Jacob), is slow, quiet
and prayerful. It evokes
the patient sorrow of a
slow choraledeveloping
over time as it coaxes
our pulse out of the
ticking of a clock-like
meter that defines our
day-to-day livesand into
a divine eternity.The
second, Saleh, imagines
the spirit of that
desert-prophet through
the use of a Liwa; the
dance-sequence that
hasbeen such a prevalent
form of expression in the
Arabian Peninsula for
much of our recorded
history.The third
movement is titled
Dawoōd, and it is
emblematic of the beloved
Prophet, King, and
Psalmist, David.Though it
has no lyrics, the
movement functions as a
dabkeh (an ancient dance
native to the Levant) and
also “sets”the
opening of Psalm 100
(Make a joyful noise unto
the Lord, all ye lands).
This line is never set to
music or sung inthe
quartet but is evoked
through the rhythmic
shape of the violin part
which imitates the
phonology and rhythmof my
speaking the opening line
in the Hebrew and
develops the contours of
that line incessantly
throughout
themovement.3The fourth
movement is an ode to
Yousef (Joseph) and
relates to the first
movement in tempo and
tone just as
Josephrelates to Jacob,
his father. Together, the
first and fourth
movements provide a sort
of Lamentation and
relief.Joseph had the
appearance of a noble
angel, but he was very
much a human being. And
the story of this
particularprophet had
tragic beginnings many
years before he found
himself in a position of
power in Egypt. Back in
his youth,still among the
Israelites, Joseph
experienced a series of
revelations through his
dreams that spoke of his
impendingcareer in
prophecy. He confided his
dreams to his father, the
Prophet Jacob, who told
his son of the greatness
thatawaited him in his
future only to have his
brothers throw him into a
well and leave him for
dead. Joseph
eventuallyfound his way
from Israel to Egypt and
rose out of slavery into
a position of power.
Meanwhile, famine engulfs
Israel.Forty years pass,
and back in the land of
Jacob and Rachel, of
Joseph’s brothers and
Abraham’s tribe, Israel
wasnot spared the effects
of the famine. They
sorely lacked Joseph’s
prophecy and his vision.
The Qur’an then tells
usthat Jacob, sensing
Joseph, sends the other
brothers to Egypt
instructing them to come
back with food and
grain.Arriving in Egypt,
they unwittingly appear
before Joseph. They
don’t recognize their
little brother who has
risen toa position of
might, dressed in his
Egyptian regalia. They
ask for the food and the
grain.After some
conversation, Joseph is
no longer able to contain
his emotion. Overcome, he
reveals himself to his
nowterrified brothers. He
embraces them. He asks
them eagerly, “How is
our father?” Joseph
gives them the gift of
thefood and the grain
that they came in search
of. He relieves them from
hunger and alleviates
their fear. He sendsthem
back with proof that he
is alive, and it is this
joyful proof from the
miraculous hands of a
prophet that bringsback
the ancient Jacob’s
vision after 40 years of
blindness.In this story,
I am struck by the fact
that Joseph may not have
made the decision to
forgive his brothers on
thespot, but that
something inside the
prophet’s soul found
forgiveness and peace for
the brothers who had so
gravelywronged him at
some point along his
journey. I would suspect
this point to have been
present at Joseph’s
inception,even before he
had ever been
wronged.This is proof, if
we needed it, that
Joseph’s angel-like
beauty was not only
physical and external,
but also internalas well:
Joseph possessed a
profound loveliness of
spirit that bound his
appearance and his soul.
In Joseph, formand soul
are one.Time is to
musicians what light is
to a painter. In this
way, the story of Joseph
also shows us that time
can affectour perception
of even the most tragic
wounds. In fact, the most
common Arabic word for
“human being” is
insaan,which shares its
roots with the word
insaa, “to forget.”
While our ability to
remember is essential to
how we learnabout
ourselves, our capacity
to “forgive and
forget” may also be one
of our great gifts as
human beings.The fifth
movement follows my ode
to Joseph with a
structural memory of
Mūsa (Moses). The
movement consistsentirely
of descending motifs
which I constructed as an
indication of Moses’
descending movement as he
emergedto his people from
the heights of Mt. Sinai.
The music is constructed
in five phrases which
function as a
formalreference to the
five books of Moses, the
Pentateuch. The movement
is placed as the fifth of
the quartet for the
samereason.While Joseph
is always evoked as
supremely beautiful in
the Books of Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam,
Suleiman(Solomon) is
described as surpassing
in his quicksilver
intelligence. This
movement is composed of a
seven-partriddle which
passes by in an instant
but can be caught by the
attentive listener. From
Solomon, we work our
wayback to Yishak (Isaac)
in a seventh movement
that evokes Isaac’s
literal meaning in Arabic
and Hebrew: laughter.The
eighth and final movement
of this quartet is named
for the Patriarch of the
entire Book: Ibrahim
(Abraham). Itrelates to
Isaac just as Joseph
relates to Jacob; they
are father and son. The
lines are prayerful and
contemplative;the form of
the music evolves from a
fugue joining together
many different forms of
prayer into a single
tapestry ofcounterpoint,
to the cyclical form of
this entire quartet which
is rendered through the
motion of pilgrims
circling theKaaba (cube)
in Mecca — a structure
which was built by
Abraham for Hagaar and
their son Ismail.These
are just some of the
figures that are
cherished by all three of
the Middle Eastern
monotheisms
(Judaism,Christianity,
and Islam) that the
Qur’an refers to
collectively as Ahl
Al-Kitab. This Arabic
phrase is most
commonlytranslated as
“The People of the
Book,” but here the
most common translation
is a flawed one: the
Arabic word“ahl”
means “family” and
not just “people.” A
better translation would
be “Family of the
Book.” Each of the
eightmovements of
Prophesies grows from a
single musical cell.This
quartet is a family
album.—Mohammed Fairouz
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| America's All-Time Favorite Songs for God and Country
Piano, Voix et Guitare [Partition]
Music Sales
(P/V/G). By Various. Songbooks and Methods. Music Sales America. Patriotic, Sacr...(+)
(P/V/G). By Various.
Songbooks and Methods.
Music Sales America.
Patriotic, Sacred.
Softcover. 320 pages
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| New Hymns Inspired by General Conference Addresses, Oct 2018 & Apr 2019
Jackman Music Corporation
Choir - Medium / medium acc. SKU: JK.19970 Composed by Janice Kapp Perry....(+)
Choir - Medium / medium
acc. SKU: JK.19970
Composed by Janice Kapp
Perry. Difficulty Medium.
Christian, Inspirational.
Jackman Music Corporation
#19970. Published by
Jackman Music Corporation
(JK.19970).
Hymn singing is
an important part of our
heritage as members of
The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Elder Boyd K.
Packer, in October 1991
General Conference, said:
If we will listen,
[hymns] are teaching the
gospel, for the hymns of
the Restoration are, in
fact, a course in
doctrine! In his landmark
speech entitled The Arts
and the Spirit of the
Lord, Elder Packer
stated:
Our hymns
speak the truth as far as
they go. They could speak
more of it if we had more
of them specifically
teaching the principles
of the restored gospel of
Jesus Christ. If I had my
way there would be many
new hymns with lyrics
near scriptural in their
power, bonded to music
that would inspire people
to worship. Think about
how much we could be
helped by another
inspired anthem or hymn
of the Restoration. (BYU,
February 1,
1976)
In response
to Elder Packer's
invitation, we have been
writing new hymns during
the past decade based on
favorite general
conference sermons. Our
hope was that once the
central theme of each
address was set to music
it might serve as another
witness of the inspired
message, and would be
sung in homes, in choirs,
and in conjunction with
the Teachings For Our
Time lessons in Relief
Society and Priesthood
meetings.
Janice
Kapp Perry
David B.
Larsen
This
songbook contains a
Topical Index
The
hymns offered by Prime
Recordings Inc. are
neither made, provided,
approved nor endorsed by
Intellectual Reserve,
Inc., The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day
Saints or its leaders.
Any content or opinions
expressed, implied or
included in, or with this
book from Prime
Recordings Inc., are
solely those of David B.
Larsen and Janice Kapp
Perry, and not those of
Intellectual Reserve,
Inc., The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day
Saints or its
leaders.
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| 100 Gospel Songs and Hymns for Violin and Guitar
Violon, Guitare (duo) - Intermédiaire
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With Suggested Chordal
Accompaniment. Composed
by
Craig Duncan.
Violin,Guitar:
Gospel and
Sacred,Style,Gospel/Sacre
d,Du
ets and
Ensembles,Solos,Duets
and Ensemble,Solos. 100
Hymns. Book. 120 pages.
Published by Mel Bay
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| 100 Gospel Songs and Hymns for Cello and Guitar
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With Suggested Chordal
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by
Craig Duncan.
Cello,Guitar:
Gospel and
Sacred,Style,Gospel/Sacre
d,Du
et/Ensemble,Solos,Duets
and
Ensemble,Solos. 100
Hymns.
Book. 120 pages.
Published by
Mel Bay Publications, Inc
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| FunTime Piano Hymns (NFMC)
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Arranged by Nancy &
Randall Faber. For Piano.
PreTime to BigTime Piano
Supplementary Lib Sacred.
Hymns. Level: 3A-3B.
Book. Published by The
FJH Music Company Inc.
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| For the Mystic Harmony
Theodore Presser Co.
Band Bass Clarinet, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Clar...(+)
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Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Piccolo,
alto Saxophone, soprano
Saxophone, tenor
Saxophone SKU:
PR.165001000 Hymns
for Wind Ensemble.
Composed by Dan Welcher.
Folio. Set of Score and
Parts.
4+24+24+16+8+4+4+24+12+12
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8+4+8+8+4+4+4+48 pages.
Duration 10 minutes, 41
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #165-00100.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.165001000). ISBN
9781491129241. UPC:
680160669776. 9 x 12
inches. Commissione
d for a consortium of
high school and college
bands in the north Dallas
region, FOR THEMYSTIC
HARMONY is a 10-minute
inspirational work in
homage to Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon,patrons
of the Fort Worth
Symphony and the Van
Cliburn Competition.
Welcher draws melodic
flavorfrom five American
hymns, spirituals, and
folk tunes of the 19th
century. The last of
these sources toappear is
the hymn tune For the
Beauty of the Earth,
whose third stanza is the
quatrain: “For the
joy of earand eye, For
the heart and
mind’s delight,
For the mystic harmony,
Linking sense to sound
and sight,â€giving
rise to the work’s
title.
This work,
commissioned for a
consortium of high school
bands in the north Dallas
area, is my fifteenth
maturework for wind
ensemble (not counting
transcriptions). When I
asked Todd Dixon, the
band director
whospearheaded this
project, what kind of a
work he most wanted, he
first said
“something
that’s basically
slow,†butwanted to
leave the details to me.
During a long subsequent
conversation, he
mentioned that his
grandparents,Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon, were
prime supporters of the
Fort Worth Symphony,
going so far as to
purchase anumber of high
quality instruments for
that orchestra. This
intrigued me, so I asked
more about his
grandparentsand was
provided an 80-page
biographical sketch.
Reading that article,
including a long section
about theirdevotion to
supporting a young man
through the rigors of the
Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition fora
number of years, moved me
very much. Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon
weren’t just
supporters of the arts;
theywere passionate
lovers of music and
musicians. I determined
to make this work a
testament to that love,
and tothe religious faith
that sustained them both.
The idea of using extant
hymns was also suggested
by Todd Dixon,and this
10-minute work is the
result.I have employed
existing melodies in
several works, delving
into certain kinds of
religious music more than
a fewtimes. In seeking
new sounds, new ways of
harmonizing old tunes,
and the contrapuntal
overlaying of one
tunewith another, I was
able to make works like
ZION (using 19th-century
Revivalist hymns) and
LABORING SONGS(using
Shaker melodies) reflect
the spirit of the
composers who created
these melodies, without
sounding likepastiches or
medleys. I determined to
do the same with this new
work, with the added
problem of
employingmelodies that
were more familiar. I
chose five tunes from the
19th century: hymns,
spirituals, and
folk-tunes.Some of these
are known by differing
titles, but they all
appear in hymnals of
various Christian
denominations(with
various titles and
texts). My idea was to
employ the tunes without
altering their notes,
instead using aconstantly
modulating sense of
harmony —
sometimes leading to
polytonal harmonizations
of what are
normallysimple four-chord
hymns.The work begins and
ends with a repeated
chime on the note C: a
reminder of steeples,
white clapboard
churchesin the country,
and small church organs.
Beginning with a
Mixolydian folk tune of
Caribbean origin
presentedtwice with
layered entrances, the
work starts with a
feeling of mystery and
gentle sorrow. It
proceeds, after along
transition, into a second
hymn that is sometimes
connected to the sea
(hence the sensation of
water andwaves throughout
it). This tune, by John
B. Dykes (1823-1876), is
a bit more chromatic and
“shifty†than
mosthymn-tunes, so I
chose to play with the
constant sensation of
modulation even more than
the original does. Atthe
climax, the familiar
spiritual “Were you
there?†takes over,
with a double-time
polytonal feeling
propelling itforward at
“Sometimes it
causes me to
tremble.â€Trumpets
in counterpoint raise the
temperature, and the
tempo as well, leading
the music into a third
tune (ofunknown
provenance, though it
appears with different
texts in various hymnals)
that is presented in a
sprightlymanner. Bassoons
introduce the melody, but
it is quickly taken up by
other instruments over
three
“verses,â€cons
tantly growing in
orchestration and volume.
A mysterious second tune,
unrelated to this one,
interrupts it inall three
verses, sending the
melody into unknown
regions.The final melody
is “For the Beauty
of the Earth.†This
tune by Conrad Kocher
(1786-1872) is commonly
sung atThanksgiving
— the perfect
choice to end this work
celebrating two people
known for their
generosity.Keeping the
sense of constant
modulation that has been
present throughout, I
chose to present this
hymn in threegrowing
verses, but with a twist:
every four bars, the
“key†of the
hymn seems to shift
— until the
“Lord of all,
toThee we praiseâ€
melody bursts out in a
surprising compound
meter. This, as it turns
out, was the
“mystery
tuneâ€heard earlier
in the piece. After an
Ivesian, almost polytonal
climax, the Coda begins
over a long B( pedal. At
first,it seems to be a
restatement of the first
two phrases of “For
the Beauty†with
long spaces between them,
but it soonchanges to a
series of
“Amenâ€
cadences, widely
separated by range and
color. These, too, do not
conform to anykey, but
instead overlay each
other in ways that are
unpredictable but
strangely comforting.The
third verse of “For
the Beauty of the
Earth†contains
this quatrain:“For
the joy of ear and eye,
–For the heart and
mind’s delightFor
the mystic harmonyLinking
sense to sound and
sightâ€and it was
from this poetry that I
drew the title for the
present work. It is my
hope that audiences and
performerswill find
within it a sense of
grace: more than a little
familiar, but also quite
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| For the Mystic Harmony [Conducteur]
Theodore Presser Co.
Band Bass Clarinet, Bass Drum, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Bongos, Castanets, Celesta,...(+)
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Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2,
Clarinet 3, Contrabass
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English Horn, Euphonium,
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Flute 2, Horn 1, Horn 2,
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PR.16500100F Hymns
for Wind Ensemble.
Composed by Dan Welcher.
Sws. Full score. 48
pages. Duration 10
minutes, 41 seconds.
Theodore Presser Company
#165-00100F. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.16500100F). ISBN
9781491114421. UPC:
680160669783. 9 x 12
inches. Commissione
d for a consortium of
high school and college
bands in the north Dallas
region, FOR THEMYSTIC
HARMONY is a 10-minute
inspirational work in
homage to Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon,patrons
of the Fort Worth
Symphony and the Van
Cliburn Competition.
Welcher draws melodic
flavorfrom five American
hymns, spirituals, and
folk tunes of the 19th
century. The last of
these sources toappear is
the hymn tune For the
Beauty of the Earth,
whose third stanza is the
quatrain: “For the
joy of earand eye, For
the heart and
mind’s delight,
For the mystic harmony,
Linking sense to sound
and sight,â€giving
rise to the work’s
title.
This work,
commissioned for a
consortium of high school
bands in the north Dallas
area, is my fifteenth
maturework for wind
ensemble (not counting
transcriptions). When I
asked Todd Dixon, the
band director
whospearheaded this
project, what kind of a
work he most wanted, he
first said
“something
that’s basically
slow,†butwanted to
leave the details to me.
During a long subsequent
conversation, he
mentioned that his
grandparents,Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon, were
prime supporters of the
Fort Worth Symphony,
going so far as to
purchase anumber of high
quality instruments for
that orchestra. This
intrigued me, so I asked
more about his
grandparentsand was
provided an 80-page
biographical sketch.
Reading that article,
including a long section
about theirdevotion to
supporting a young man
through the rigors of the
Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition fora
number of years, moved me
very much. Norwood and
Elizabeth Dixon
weren’t just
supporters of the arts;
theywere passionate
lovers of music and
musicians. I determined
to make this work a
testament to that love,
and tothe religious faith
that sustained them both.
The idea of using extant
hymns was also suggested
by Todd Dixon,and this
10-minute work is the
result.I have employed
existing melodies in
several works, delving
into certain kinds of
religious music more than
a fewtimes. In seeking
new sounds, new ways of
harmonizing old tunes,
and the contrapuntal
overlaying of one
tunewith another, I was
able to make works like
ZION (using 19th-century
Revivalist hymns) and
LABORING SONGS(using
Shaker melodies) reflect
the spirit of the
composers who created
these melodies, without
sounding likepastiches or
medleys. I determined to
do the same with this new
work, with the added
problem of
employingmelodies that
were more familiar. I
chose five tunes from the
19th century: hymns,
spirituals, and
folk-tunes.Some of these
are known by differing
titles, but they all
appear in hymnals of
various Christian
denominations(with
various titles and
texts). My idea was to
employ the tunes without
altering their notes,
instead using aconstantly
modulating sense of
harmony —
sometimes leading to
polytonal harmonizations
of what are
normallysimple four-chord
hymns.The work begins and
ends with a repeated
chime on the note C: a
reminder of steeples,
white clapboard
churchesin the country,
and small church organs.
Beginning with a
Mixolydian folk tune of
Caribbean origin
presentedtwice with
layered entrances, the
work starts with a
feeling of mystery and
gentle sorrow. It
proceeds, after along
transition, into a second
hymn that is sometimes
connected to the sea
(hence the sensation of
water andwaves throughout
it). This tune, by John
B. Dykes (1823-1876), is
a bit more chromatic and
“shifty†than
mosthymn-tunes, so I
chose to play with the
constant sensation of
modulation even more than
the original does. Atthe
climax, the familiar
spiritual “Were you
there?†takes over,
with a double-time
polytonal feeling
propelling itforward at
“Sometimes it
causes me to
tremble.â€Trumpets
in counterpoint raise the
temperature, and the
tempo as well, leading
the music into a third
tune (ofunknown
provenance, though it
appears with different
texts in various hymnals)
that is presented in a
sprightlymanner. Bassoons
introduce the melody, but
it is quickly taken up by
other instruments over
three
“verses,â€cons
tantly growing in
orchestration and volume.
A mysterious second tune,
unrelated to this one,
interrupts it inall three
verses, sending the
melody into unknown
regions.The final melody
is “For the Beauty
of the Earth.†This
tune by Conrad Kocher
(1786-1872) is commonly
sung atThanksgiving
— the perfect
choice to end this work
celebrating two people
known for their
generosity.Keeping the
sense of constant
modulation that has been
present throughout, I
chose to present this
hymn in threegrowing
verses, but with a twist:
every four bars, the
“key†of the
hymn seems to shift
— until the
“Lord of all,
toThee we praiseâ€
melody bursts out in a
surprising compound
meter. This, as it turns
out, was the
“mystery
tuneâ€heard earlier
in the piece. After an
Ivesian, almost polytonal
climax, the Coda begins
over a long B( pedal. At
first,it seems to be a
restatement of the first
two phrases of “For
the Beauty†with
long spaces between them,
but it soonchanges to a
series of
“Amenâ€
cadences, widely
separated by range and
color. These, too, do not
conform to anykey, but
instead overlay each
other in ways that are
unpredictable but
strangely comforting.The
third verse of “For
the Beauty of the
Earth†contains
this quatrain:“For
the joy of ear and eye,
–For the heart and
mind’s delightFor
the mystic harmonyLinking
sense to sound and
sightâ€and it was
from this poetry that I
drew the title for the
present work. It is my
hope that audiences and
performerswill find
within it a sense of
grace: more than a little
familiar, but also quite
new and unexpected. $25.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | | |
| Volume 123 - Now's the Time - Standards with the Joey DeFrancesco Trio
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| All Creatures of Our God and King
Chorale SATB
Shawnee Press
Choral (SATB) SKU: HL.1243447 Arranged by Michael Ware. Shawnee Sacred. G...(+)
Choral (SATB) SKU:
HL.1243447 Arranged
by Michael Ware. Shawnee
Sacred. General Worship,
Hymn. Octavo. Duration
215 seconds. Published by
Shawnee Press
(HL.1243447). UPC:
196288151760.
6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.
Job 12:7-10, Psalm
104:24, Psalm
148:7-8. In this
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is decorated with
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Designed for church
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| Divine Hymns for Accordion
Accordéon
Santorella Publications
Published by Santorella Publications. Divine Hymns for Accordion represents the ...(+)
Published by Santorella
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Hymns for Accordion
represents the most
cherished and beloved
hymns of all time. Each
piece has been arranged
to allow most
accordionists immediate
gratification, however
the songs will sound very
orchestral and rhythmic
when necessary. This
Santorella Publication
arranged by Helene
Criscio and edited by
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confident that the
beautiful melodies
contained within will
strengthen and encourage
you on your life's
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congregation to its feet
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| Great Hymns for Guitar
Guitare notes et tablatures [Partition] - Facile
Mel Bay
by William Bay. For all guitars. Sacred, strum/sing. Level: Beginning-Intermedia...(+)
by William Bay. For all
guitars. Sacred,
strum/sing. Level:
Beginning-Intermediate.
Book. Songbook. Size
8.75x11.75. 112 pages.
Published by Mel Bay
Pub., Inc.
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| Hymns for Harmonica
Harmonica - Intermédiaire
Mel Bay
Harmonica (diatonic, cross-harp, or chromatic) - Intermediate SKU: MB.93861(+)
Harmonica (diatonic,
cross-harp, or chromatic)
- Intermediate SKU:
MB.93861 Diatonic
- Cross-Harp -
Chromatic. Composed
by Phil Duncan. Arranged
by Phil Duncan.
Harmonica: Chromatic,
Squareback saddle stitch,
Style, Harmonica:
Diatonic, Gospel/Sacred,
Solos, Christian. Sacred.
Instrumental solo book.
With standard notation,
chord names and
introductory text. 111
pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc #93861.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
(MB.93861). ISBN
9780871666918. UPC:
796279004428. 8.75x11.75
inches. 98 favorite
hymns, gospel songs, and
spirituals arranged in
several different keys
for diatonic, cross harp,
or chromatic harmonica
solo. In notation only.
The book will give many
hours of playing pleasure
to the beginner as well
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| Hymns for a Caring World
Weinberger
Choral; Chorus; Piano (Vocal Score) SKU: HL.48000012 Composed by Peter Ro...(+)
Choral; Chorus; Piano
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HL.48000012 Composed
by Peter Rose. This
edition: M570054862.
Boosey & Hawkes Sacred
Choral. Classical,
Collection, Contemporary.
44 pages. Josef
Weinberger #M570054862.
Published by Josef
Weinberger (HL.48000012).
UPC: 073999719956.
7.0x9.8x0.128
inches. Contents:
Care for Your World *
Care for Our World *
Jesus Chose a Donkey *
There'll be Time * Use
the Swords * You Know the
World * Lord, I am Blind
* A Voice in the
Wilderness * Lead Us, O
Lord * O Lord, Protect
Your Servants * When the
Words I Speak * We are
Your Children * News is
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| BigTime Piano Hymns
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FJH
Arranged by Nancy and Randall Faber. For Piano. PreTime to BigTime Piano Supplem...(+)
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Randall Faber. For Piano.
PreTime to BigTime Piano
Supplementary Lib Sacred.
Hymns. Level:
Intermediate. Book.
Published by The FJH
Music Company Inc.
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| 4-Chord Hymns for Guitar
Paroles et Accords - Facile
Hal Leonard
(Play 30 Hymns with Four Easy Chords: G-C-D-Em). Composed by Various. For Guitar...(+)
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Easy Chords: G-C-D-Em).
Composed by Various. For
Guitar. Guitar
Collection. Softcover.
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| Gathered for Worship
Hope Publishing Company
SKU: HP.8287 Composed by Carl Daw, Jr. This edition: Complete. Author Col...(+)
SKU: HP.8287
Composed by Carl Daw, Jr.
This edition: Complete.
Author Collections. Carl
Daw Hymn Collection.
General Worship, Sacred.
Book. 86 pages. Hope
Publishing Company #8287.
Published by Hope
Publishing Company
(HP.8287). UPC:
763628182878. Carl P.
Daw, Jr. Fifty new
psalms & hymns written by
the past-Executive
Director of The Hymn
Society in the United
States and Canada, Carl
P. Daw, Jr. The book
contains texts only and
can be viewed on our
website under Online
Hymnody. Suggested tunes
will be posted soon as
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