Product Description
The unique aspect of these short hymn-based offertories is their flexible length. When the offertory goes by quickly, as it does in a smaller church or even an efficient larger church, a pianist needs to be able to end a piece quickly, or extend it if there are a few more in attendance. Ive included directions for doing this written right into the music.
Each arrangement takes the tune in a bit of a new direction and could be used as pre-service music, post-service music, and for filling other awkward variable-length silences in a church service (as when the organist/pianist takes communion).
Titles by common hymn name: (listening sample has excerpts of titles with * below)
Amazing Grace
*Beautiful Savior
*Behold the Lamb of God (Lent, Good Friday)
Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia (Easter)
*Lord, Thee I Love With All My Heart
Open Now They Gates of Beauty
*Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
*The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came/ Oh, Come, Oh, Come, Emmanuel (Advent, Christmas)
*The Strife Is Oer, the Battle Done (Easter)
Titles by hymn tune:
ECCE AGNUS
GABRIELS MESSAGE/ VENI, EMMANUEL
HERZLICH LIEB HAB ICH DICH, O HERR
MFURAHINI HALELUYA
NEW BRITAIN
SCHÖNSTER HERR JESU
TOPLADY
UNSER HERRSCHER
VICTORY
If you like these flexible-length offertories, I have another volume of ten titled Little Offertories for Little Churches published with Northwestern Publishing House at:
www.nph.net
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