Product Description
This
new collection of Thanksgiving and Harvest hymns contains all your favorites,
or at least, most of them. Its probably all youll ever need for thanksgiving
and harvest festivals and the arrangements can be used for virtually any
combination of stringed instruments. This is an essential title for any string
library or for any string ensembles that are called upon to provide music for
schools, Thanksgiving events or churches.
The
arrangements can be used with string quartet, string quintet or string ensemble
or performed as solo pieces. Theres also an optional but useful simplified
keyboard part intended for less experienced keyboard players. The piano part
too means that you can use the arrangements as solos, duets or trios. These
arrangements are intended either as stand-alone pieces that could be used as
interludes in a service, or they could be used to accompany solo, choral or
congregational singing. To make the music accessible to less experienced string
players, the range of the notes has been kept fairly low so that many of the
arrangements can be played in first position. However, to produce a brighter
and richer sound, a few of the more experienced violinists could play an octave
higher. You could also use the arrangements as flute or oboe solo pieces, with the
wind instrument playing the 1st violin part. Each hymn has a four-staff score
and parts are provided for Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello and optional Double
bass. The scores and all the parts are contained in a single PDF file. Because
string-friendly keys are used, these arrangements are NOT compatible with those
in the wind collection of the same name.
The
following 25 hymns are included: All
Creatures of our God and King (Lasst uns Erfreuen); As the Sun doth Daily Rise
(Innocents); All Things Bright and Beautiful (Bright and Beautiful); Bringing
in the Sheaves (Sowing in the Morning); Come Ye Thankful People Come (St
Georges Windsor); Fair Waved the Golden Corn (Holyrood); Fill your Hearts with
Joy and Gladness (Ode to Joy); For the Beauty of the Earth (Dix); For the
Fruits of His Creation (Ar Hyd y Nos); Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
(Austrian Hymn); Immortal, Invisible (St Denio); Let all Things now Living (Ash
Grove); Let us with a Gladsome Mind (Monkland); Now Thank we all Our God (Nun
danket); Praise and Thanksgiving (Bunessan); Praise God for the Harvest
(Stowey); Praise my Soul the King of Heaven (Lauda anima); Praise to the Lord
the Almighty (Lob den herren); Rejoice the Lord is King (Darwalls 148th);
Sing to the Lord of Harvest (Wie lieblich ist der maien); This is my Fathers World
(Terra Beata); To thee, O Lord, our Hearts we Raise (Golden Sheaves); We Gather
Together (Kremser); We Plough the Fields and Scatter (Wir pflügen) and Praise
God from whom all Blessings Flow (Old Hundredth)
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.