Good King Wenceslas
The bells ring loud and freely as this famous Christmas carol is introduced. The melody is further embellished with a canon-style chase between both hands and chordal arpeggiations. The ringing bells theme (by the left hand crossing over the right) returns during the last section, giving height to the song and a final recapitulation of the opening. Your audience will be captivated by your performance of this work at your next worship service or music gathering.
Guided by the Stars
Inspired by video games set in outer space, this driving work with catch your audience’s attention and proceed to motivate them to find what they are looking for. Opening with the tuplet pattern mimicking the stars, a grand motif cuts through and gives gravitas to the work. The accompaniment becomes a repetitive syncopation that continually drives the energy throughout, all the while the lyrical melody soars above. With a recapitulation of the opening theme, you and your audience will be transported and feel like you are flying freely in space!
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
This perennial Christmas favorite gets an updated feel with this arrangement for solo piano. First heard in the 1944 MGM movie Meet Me in St. Louis, triplet figures accompany the lyrical melody. Polyrhythms and hemiolas make this piece a worthwhile challenge to perform. As the song progresses, countervoices add in to make the work more complex, launching into a short bridge that becomes a true highlight for this song. You will hear the piano practically sing this timeless holiday standard, and audiences will be enthralled at your next performance.
He is Born (Il est né, le divin Enfant)
With a march feel in the left hand and bell-like feel in the ring, this new arrangement of the French carol will bring an historic setting to your Christmas celebrations!
Healing Waters
This spiritual by Leander Lycurgus Pickett invokes a very calm feeling and hopeful message. With hemiola passages throughout the work, this piece will not be easy as its message is to understand.
The Hearth
Back in ancient times, the hearth was usually a warming spot (like a fireplace nowadays) where members of a house or township (or even passersby travelling through) would gather. Besides staying warm from the freezing weather, people would share stories about their travels and families to the delight and entertainment of their listeners. That idea of kinship and warmth is the basis for this musical work. This ballad features the melody interwoven among the persistent sixteenth notes traded between both hands, creating an airy harmonic atmosphere that mimics the heat of the fire.
Here, O My Lord, I See Thee
The music of Edward Dearle has a lyrical quality that deems it to always be placed in a lyrical setting. With a gentle, arpeggiated accompaniment and folk-like harmonizations, this arrangement will be a great addition for Communion but can also used for other general worship themes.
Holy, Holy, Holy
This wonderful tune by John B. Dykes has been played by many performers all over the world, and this arrangement will allow the piano player to create a wonderful soundscape for the audience. The melody and everflowing eighth-note countermelody are played both by the right hand throughout the work, with rhythms from the bass to accent the driving nature of this work. You will be enthralled to play this piece at your next worship service or concert.
Hosanna, Loud Hosanna
with Hornpipe from ‘Water Music’
The reverence of the timeless Easter hymn is equally paired with the royal statute of George Frederic Handel’s Water Music. The Hornpipe movement, originally marked by trumpets and horns playing in waltz time, create interludes between phrasings of the Baroquean-treated hymn melody. Give your audience at your worship service a renewed musical experience with this classic arrangement.
How Firm a Foundation
A driving, syncopated rhythm helps support the melody in this enlivened new arrangement of this hymn standard. The energy does not fade as the music swells toward a final exclamation of the melody.