Category: Hymns

Same guy, same baggy yellow shirt, same fuzzy hair, same morning, same piano, recorded with same iPhone with no external microphone…different piece in my recent group of piano arrangements: “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Sheet music available at SheetMusicDirect and SheetMusicPlus sometime after September 5th…check here back for links after that date. Yes…the familiar tune you know is in there, it’s just hidden in an inner voice all the time. This was my dad’s favorite Christmas song.

Another one in my series of Christmas carol arrangements for solo piano. The sheet music will be available on at SheetMusicDirect and SheetMusicPlus by September 5th or so. Check back here for links anytime after that.

Another in this series of mine of Advent and Christmas songs arranged for solo piano. The treatment is jazz harmonization with pianistic, classical textures and counterpoint. If you or your students are interested in playing them, the sheet music is available at either of these sites:

• https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1374118/Product.aspx
• https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/lo-how-a-rose-solo-piano-digital-sheet-music/22567282

You folks with your pumpkins and Halloween in August, that’s nothin’! In the music publishing biz, it’s Christmas! I’m trying to get a few of my solo piano Christmas arrangements out there. Here’s the first. The others will follow in quick succession.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mV1D7aeldyI%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

If you or your student would like a copy of the sheet music, it’s available at either of the following links.

• https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/what-child-is-this-greensleeves-solo-piano-digital-sheet-music/22566356
• https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1373713/Product.aspx

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gnpCwDCvn7Q%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

This arrangement of mine is a musical reflections on the hymn tune, Resignation, a melody of anonymous authorship from William Walker’s “Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion” (1835).

The second “verse” of the arrangement is a minor key treatment of the melody. It returns to a more upbeat character on the “third” verse, and an even more positive statement on the “fourth” verse.

The sheet music is available at https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/resignation-for-solo-piano-digital-sheet-music/22511247 and https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1330431/Product.aspx.

I don’t have videos of me playing a lot of these solo piano arrangements. I recorded them before I got into the practice of making videos. When there’s no video, I’m using a score synchronized with my audio recording.