Hymns for Congregational Singing

Title	Description by Stanza	Stanzas; Keys; Diff Level	$	Prefix	Cat #
Christ the Lord is Risen Today	Orch. Intro builds harmonically to 1: full w/ fanfare-like motives; 2: exuberant, dance-like, joyous; 3: intrumental colors support harm by Hal Hobson; 4: Celebratory, jubilant.	4 stanzas; C; 4	$45	hyORkoF4	C00002
Christ the Lord is Risen Today	Orch. Intro builds harmonically to 1: full w/ fanfare-like motives; 2: exuberant, dance-like, joyous; 3: intrumental colors support harm by Hal Hobson; 4: Celebratory, jubilant.	4 stanzas; C; 4	$45	hyORkoF4	C00002
Christ the Lord is Risen Today	2 Tpt descant. 1: melody divided between tpts; 2: marked by imitative, antiphonal motives; 3: tacet; 4: motives from stanza 2 are elaborated, building strength and intensity to end.	4 stanzas; C; 4	$8	hyBRko24	C00003
Fairest Lord Jesus	Orch. Intro: violin solo introduces rippling effect; 1: meditative; 2: phrases build to powerful cadences; 3: antiphonal motives, scalar passages build through the stanza and interlude to 4: Return of rippling effect, ending pensively, thoughtful w/ "A-men" cadence.	4 stanzas; Eb; 3	$45	hyORkbF3	F00001
More Love to Thee	Orch. Reflective overall. Intro: intimate, with solo instr.; 1: solid but subdued; trans/modulation: subdued; 2: warm, ornamented ctr mel. Opt ending after 2; 3: to be sung w/ only light organ accompaniment.	2 stanzas; Ab, G; 3	$45	hyORkbF3	M00003
My Jesus, I Love Thee	Orch. Meditative. Intimate into beginning with solo fl; 1: solid, stately; 2: rising motives create forward motives, moving to a climax where a "weeping" melodic line, falls bit by bit and brings the stanza to a close.	2 stanzas; F; 2	$45	hyORkbF2	M00004
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My Jesus, I Love Thee	Orch. Meditative. Intimate into beginning with solo fl; 1: solid, stately; ;unobtrusive modulation; 2: rising motives create forward motives, moving to a climax where a "weeping" melodic line, falls bit by bit and brings the stanza to a close.	2 stanzas; F, G; 2	$45	hyORkbF2	M00005
O Sacred Head Now Wounded	Orch. Intro: dark, somber; 1: alto and tenor instruments, solemn; 2: stark, upper instruments, pensive; 3: full instrumentation but dark, solemn.	3 stanzas; c min; 2	$45	hyORkbF2	O00008
Soldiers of Christ Arise (Easter Hymn)	Tpt descant. 1: melody; 2: stately ctr melody; 4: tacet; 5: solid fanfare lines rising to final cadence.	4 stanzas (1,3,4,5); D; 2	$20	hyBRko12	S00005
Thine is the Glory	Orch. Intro: short, leading directly to 1: strong, bright, festive; 2: gentl but firm, growing through the refrain to 3: exuberant, triumphant. Optional "A-men" codetta.	3 stanzas; Eb; 3	$45	hyORkbF3	T00001
Thou Art Worthy ©	Orch. Intro: gentle. Begins simple gradually becoming exultative before returning to the opening simplicity.	1 stanza; Bb; 2	$45	hyORkbF2	T00002
To God Be the Glory	Orch. Intro: brilliant; 1: strong, straight forward, the refrain is celebratory; 2: begins sweet and grows stronger with each phrase to the refrain which brings a powerful close.	2 stanzas (1,3); G; 3	$45	hyORkbF3	T00003
Were You There?	Orch. Intro: offstage trumpet call; 1 & 2: intimate, personal and somber/sobering.	2 stanzas; Eb; 3	$45	hyORkbF3	W00003
What Wondrous Love is This?	Orch. This arrangement is somber, deep in tone. Each stanza builds to higher degree of intensity. Key words are highlighted in the orchestration. The coda brings the tone down to the opening deep richness. This arrangement is difficult but worthy of the time.	3 stanzas; d dorian; 4	$45	hyORkbF4	W00006
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross	Orch. Intro is deeply personal and private; 1: longing, heavy; 2: dark, lower brass; 3: stark, higher timbres, a long, wanton ctr mel builds to falling scales (tears); 4: quiet, contempletive, simple.	4 stanzas; F; 2+	$45	hyORkbF2	W00007
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Stand Alones
Transcriptions

Title or name	Instrumentation	Difficulty/Description	Length	$	Prefix	Cat #
G. F. Handel: Hallelujah! Amen from Judas Maccabaeus	2 tpt, 2 bone, tuba, timp, org	The brass play the chorus parts and the organ, the accompaniment. Optional timps. Composed as a postlude for Resurrection Sunday.	1'20"	$20	saMIko63	H00013
G. F. Handel: I Know that My Redeemer Liveth from Messiah	Solo Violin, orchestra	Transposed to Eb, soprano solo is taken 8va by the violin. Works well with incomplete instrumentation. A continuo part may be played on the organ, piano or with a harpsichord setting if the number of accompanying instruments is small.	5'50"	$40	soSTorO3	I00007
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Original Works

Title or name	Instrumentation	Difficulty/Description	Length	$	Prefix	Cat #
Dialogues in the Shadows	Orchestra	Soloists (fl, cl, sx, tpt, bone, tuba, pno, org, vln, vc) "speak out" phrases from hymns assoc.w/Good Friday to create "dialogues". Musical aspect is more difficult than technical. Composed to open a Tenebrae Service.	4'25"	$35	saORkbF4	D00003
Overture: Soldiers of Christ Arise	Orchestra, pno	A jubilant setting on Diademata (usable for Resurrection Sunday), in ABA form. The B section merges back and forth with Holy, Holy, Holy (Nicaea), ends triumphantly.	4 min	$50	saORkpF4	O00010
Resurrection Day Overture	2 tpt, 2 bone, tuba, timp, org	Composed for Resurrection Sunday. Begins soft with expectation and builds to "Great Is the Lord", moves through "Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise" and builds again to explode into "Christ the Lord is Risen Today."	3'15"	$30	saMIko64	R00004
Tenebrae	Orchestra	What does sin sound like? This was the driving impulse - to depict in sound why Jesus had to die. Composed for the opening of a Tenebrae Service on Good Friday. Intense whispers build to a powerful dissonance through the tune: O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus (Ebenezer). A second climax melts into an elongate version of O Sacred Head Now Wounded as motives wash down with growing intensity underneath There is a Redeemer. Peaking at the final climax, a codetta quietly closes the work in a somber, silent tone.	5'30"	$65	saORkbF5	T00008
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Choir Selections

Title or name	Composer/Publisher	Description	Length	$	Prefix	Cat #
Lift Up Your Heads ©	Lloyd Larson BMG Songs/Birdwing Muisc (Admin. EMI Christian Music Publishing)	2 tpt, 2 hn, 3 bone, tuba, pno	4'20"	$35	otCHbr83	L00004
My Soul Praises the Lord ©	John E. Coates Lorenz Publishing Co.	Orchestra, pno	3 min	$45	otCHorF3	M00007
Surely He Has Borne Our Grief ©	Mark Hayes Hal Leonard Corporation	Orchestra, pno	4 min	$60	otCHorF3	S00010
The King of Love My Savior Is ©	Dan Forrest Beckenhorst Press, Inc.	Picc, Fl, Cl, Vln, VC, pno	4'15"	$20	otCHch53	T00011
This Joyful Eastertide, Vers. 1 ©	William H. Harris Novello & Company, Limited	Orchestra	2'30"	$45	otCHorF3	T00009
This Joyful Eastertide, Vers. 2 ©	William H. Harris Novello & Company, Limited	Orchestra, pno	2'30"	$25	otCHbr33	T00010
Without His Cross ©	Joseph M. Martin Malcolm Music, a division of Shawnee Press, Inc	Orchestra, pno	3 min	$45	otCHorF3	W00009
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