Category: Music

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.

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

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.