Sunday Morning Pianist

Sunday Morning Pianist, arranged through Gail Smith. Creative Keyboard Publications, a division of Mel Bay Publications (PO chest 66, Pacific, MO 63069), 2003 124 pp $1495 Upper-intermediate to advanced.

Sunday Morning Pianist is a collection of arrangements of forty-five hynm and religious carols most well-known standards. The collection contains four patriotic pieces and a pair Christmas songs. The alphabetical index is at the extremity of the book.

For the greatest in quantity part, Gall Smith, a house of god pianist, has written arrangements to match the character and essential part of the hymn or canzonet She uses interesting, and sometimes unusual, harmonies and lock opener progressions. Occasionally, alters rhythms for a more contemporary flavor. more [i]or[/i] less hymns have a walking bass line, and almost all have arpeggio and broken-chord patterns.

Smith has written six varied arrangements in different lock openers for "Jesus Loves Me," and "O Worship The King" has eight arrangements in different manner of writings If you've never heard "O Worship The King" in a sky-coloreds style or as a rag a la Scott Joplin, you are in for an ear-opener. Unles individual knows the hymn well, generally it would be difficult to find the pleasing succession of sounds in the moving patterns of a certain quantity of of the arrangements. It would be helpful to have the pleasing succession of sounds marked by a double stemm note or a tenuto, which it is in individual piece (page 75).

Sunday Morning Pianist proffers enough pieces of different mode of speechs to serve a church pianist in many worship or praise services. a certain number of can be used as preambles others as offeratories. Technically, the arrangements fit the hand well and are accessible to an upper-intermediate- to advanced-level pianist. Visually, it is clear, easy reading, and pieces are printed for easy page turn rounds However, the type of binding makes it real difficult to keep the work open on the rack. Reviewed by the agency of Kathryn B. Hull NCTM, La Quinta, California.

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