Tag: SATB
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Still, Still, Still
Congregational Accompaniment with organ and piano
My enjoyment of music multiplies the moment I participate in making that music, and it is for this reason that I love writing congregational accompaniments! In a congregation’s Christmas or Easter program, a dressed up accompaniment allows the congregation to actively participate in the festive music making rather than just be passive listeners! Sally DeFord
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Be Still and Know
SATB
Serving a mission for my church in Berlin, Germany, I became especially fond of Isaiah 49:15-16, wherein the Lord promises his people: “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven
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Nearer, My Savior, To Thee
SATB
The words to Joseph L. Townsend’s ” Nearer my Savior, to Thee” stir my heart, but the standard melody by William Clayton tends to lull me to sleep a little. In arranging this, I tried changing up the meter while keeping Clayton’s melody. I think the result is a song with a lot more energy
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Holy is the Lord
SATB Choral arrangement of the German Hymn “Heilig ist der Herr”
While on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Berlin Germany, I learned to love the German people. One of their hymns, “Heilig ist der Herr,” (literally “Holy is the Lord” in English) struck me with the profound reverence the music conveyed. Returning home, I often played it as a