Product Description
This arrangement of Amazing Grace is from a volume of
traditional Thanksgiving songs. Thanksgiving is one of the most beautiful of
holidays, a holiday filled with joy and music. You can see the entire volume at
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/thanksgiving-medley-for-flute-choir-digital-sheet-music/20526302
The full volume also includes:
We Gather
Together to Ask the Lord's Blessing: Written in 1597 by Dutch composer
Adrianus Varius to celebrate Holland's victory over Spain, the tune was
brought by the early American settlers. Poet Theodore Baker wrote a new version
of the lyrics in 1894, which became the standard Thanksgiving version.
Over the River
and Through the Wood: Lydia Maria Child, an outspoken
abolitionist and advocate for Indian rights, wrote this poem in 1845. It was
set to music by an unknown composer.
Let All Things
Now Living: This traditional Welsh melody (Llwyn Onn or The Ash
Grove in Welsh) has inspired numerous lyricists to write words to the hauntingly
beautiful tune. The poem by Katherine Davis, written in 1939, is the text most
associated with Thanksgiving.
This Land is
Your Land: A traditional American tune, made famous by folksinger Woody
Guthrie in 1940. Guthrie wrote the words as a rebuff to the song God Bless
America, the huge hit by songwriter Irving Berlin. As a counter to Berlin's
forthrightly drum-beating patriotism, Guthrie would occasionally add
politically charged verses expressing his support for communism.
I hope you enjoy playing this as
much as I enjoyed writing it. You can see all my arrangements at my composer
page,
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/yoel-epstein-sheet-music/3001988?ac=1. I
have also arranged three songs from the Holocaust, which I arranged and
distribute for free on IMSLP. You can find them at http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Ravpapa. If
you need arrangements of any of these songs for special combinations of
instruments, feel free to contact me at yoelepst@gmail.com,
and I will try to accommodate.
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