Rejoice! Engaging Hymn Settings for Piano.Rejoice! Engaging Hymn Settings for Piano, by Wendy Stevens. Concordia Publishing House Concordia Publishing House (CPH) is the official publisher of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. Headquartered in St Louis, Missouri, CPH publishes the Synod's official magazine, The Lutheran Witness and the Synod's hymnals, including (3558 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, MO 63118), 2006. 38 pp. $16. Of the seven hymn arrangements in this collection, one is for Easter, one is patriotic, and the other five are for general use. All are well-crafted, pianistic pi·a·nis·tic adj. 1. Of or relating to the piano. 2. Well adapted to the piano. pi and highly original. Characteristics include changing meters, modality, open fifths, pentatonicism, clusters, quartal chords and whole-tone scales. Amid these 20th-century compositional techniques, the tunes are always clearly presented, with some sequential or fantasy-like departures. This collection is appropriate for advanced pianists well-grounded in modern classical piano literature. The arrangements are suitable for concert or recital use, as well as for church services of sophisticated musical taste. It would be helpful if the "advanced" level of the collection appeared on the cover. I would also recommend that alternate titles in the table of contents be listed in parentheses See parenthesis. parentheses - See left parenthesis, right parenthesis. to avoid the impression that there are 15 selections rather than seven.--Reviewed by Sigrid Luther, NCTM NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics NCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of Music NCTM North Carolina Transportation Museum NCTM National Capital Trolley Museum NCTM Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage , Dayton, Tennessee Dayton is a city in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,180 at the 2000 census. The Dayton, TN, Urban Cluster, which includes developed areas adjacent to the city and extends south to Graysville, Tennessee, had 9,050 people in 2000. |
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