Large Ensemble Piano,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.818341

By Stephen R Dalrymple. By English Folk Tune, lyrics att Alexander Means, Edwin O Excell, John Newton. Arranged by Stephen R Dalrymple (Dalrymple Designs). Sacred. 45 pages. Stephen R Dalrymple #6233919. Published by Stephen R Dalrymple (A0.818341).

What Wondrous Love is This!

arranged for violin and piano by Stephen R Dalrymple

transcribed for flute, clarinet, trumpet, euphonium (or trombone), viola, and cello

recording performed by Jim Jansen and Stephen R Dalrymple

   The lyrics were first published in Lynchburg, Virginia in the 1811 camp meeting songbook A General Selection of the Newest and Most Admired Hymns and Spiritual Songs Now in Use. In most early printings, no author is listed for the text. The 1848 hymnal The Hesperian Harp attributes the text to Alexander means, a Methodist pastor from Oxford

   Most sources attribute the hymn's melody to the 1701 English song The Ballad of Captain Kidd, but the melody predates the Kidd tune, however, possibly by more than a century. Camp meeting attendees during the Second Great Awakening would sing the hymns from text only hymnals to a variety of popular melodies. The text and melody were first published together in The Southern Harmony, a book of shape note hymns compiled by William Walker. (excerpted from Wikipedia)

   What Wondrous Love is This! is set in the Dorian mode. The mode gives the song a poignant, evocative mood.

   What Wondrous Love is This?

text attributed to Alexander Means

tune attributed to William Walker in The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (1835)

   Amazing Grace

text - John Newton 1779

tune - Virginia Harmony 1831 arranged by Edwin O. Excell 1900

   This .pdf file includes 16 score choices ♫ Full Score for violin and piano letter size ♫ Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet, Euphonium (or trombone), Violin, Viola and Cello solo parts, ♫ Full Score for violin and small page format for performing from a 10 inch tablet and ♫ the same solo parts for 10 inch tablet. tablet

   (Tell your computer which pages you want to print. There are programs online that will allow you to split pdf files so that you can choose the correct part of the pdf for your tablet.).