Product Description
This
is an essential collection of twenty-two favorite Easter hymns arranged
for
string quartet, string quintet or string orchestra. Designed for school,
college or church this useful collection should be in your library! The
double bass is optional, because it
doubles the cello part throughout. Theres a piano part too, so you can
also use the
arrangements as string solos, duets or trios. They are intended either
as stand-alone
pieces that could be used as interludes in an Easter service, or they
could be
used to accompany solo, choral or congregational singing. The music has
been
set in string-friendly keys and leans towards G major, D major and C
major. The
piano part has been written for with the early intermediate pianist in
mind,
though some hymns are actually quite easy. In a string orchestra, you
can
brighten the sound by instructing a few of the more advanced violin
players to play
an octave higher in both 1st and 2nd violin parts. You
can also use the arrangements as flute or oboe solo pieces, the wind
instrument
playing the 1st violin part.
Skillfully arranged by Colin
Kirkpatrick, the 22 hymns include: Amazing Grace; And Can it Be?
(Sagina); At the Lambs High Feast We Sing
(Salzburg); Christ the Lord is Risen Again! (Würtemburg); Crown Him with
Many
Crowns (Diademata); Jesus Christ is Risen Today (Easter Hymn); Jesus
Lives!
(St. Albinus); Loves Redeeming Work is Done (Savannah); Low in the
Grave He
Lay (Lowry); There is a Green Hill Far Away (Horsley); Near the Cross
(Doane); O
Sacred Head Now Wounded (Passion Chorale); The Day of Resurrection
(Ellacombe);
The Strife is O'er, the Battle Won (Victory); Rock of Ages (Toplady);
Thine be
the Glory (Maccabæus); This Joyful Eastertide (Easter-tide); To God be
the
Glory! (Doane); When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Hamburg); When I
Survey the
Wondrous Cross (Rockingham); Were You There When They Crucified my Lord?
and
Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem (St. Fulbert).
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.