Product Description
Here is a beautiful, simple advent song I wrote to serve churches through the season of Advent, particularly during the candle lighting portion of each Sunday the weeks leading up to Christmas. This piano solo version is perfect to use as a prelude or postlude to any Advent service or Christmas week service, particularly if the vocal version is already being used by the congregational as a piece of the liturgy. There are recordings available for each of the weeks of Advent and this piano solo as well on all streaming platforms, in case that is helpful to your service preparation or while learning the song. There is also an instrumental track entitled "Fill Our Hearts", which is musically cohesive to the main song and is a great song to stream after service, to keep the mood matching and inspire the congregation to leave singing the melody, "Let Your love fill our hearts, Jesus, Light of the world."
This piano solo is easy yet flowing, with beautiful dynamic contrast and a lilting, hopeful 6/8 feel. Also available, by searching "Stacey Plays Hymns" and the song title on this site, is a full piano vocal accompaniment version and a lead sheet version for those who play guitar or piano based on chords.
Purchase includes a free license for four church services with under 300 people, with proper attribution and credit to Stacey Plays Hymns in any printed or online materials. For a license to use this work on a larger scale, please contact me for permission and other usage details including lyrics formatted for printing in church bulletins or for powerpoint. Please let me know if there is any other way I can serve you as a congregation or fellow music/choir director as I endeavour to write several new choral anthems per year, along with my other recording work.
Thank you for supporting modern hymnwriters and musicians!
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