Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1450566
Composed by Robert Lowry. Arranged by Ken Litton. Christian,Instructional,Religious,Sacred,Traditional. Score. 3 pages. Artist of Note, Inc. #1030191. Published by Artist of Note, Inc. (A0.1450566).
Shall We Gather at the River
Robert Lowry, 1864
Easy intermediate PIANO
From the author/composer of How Can I Keep from Singing, Low in The Grave He Lay/Christ Arose, All the Way My Savior Leads Me, We’re Marching to Zion and I Need Thee Every Hour comes this classic hymn of longing for heaven, worship and fellowship by Robert Lowry, 1864.
On a ministry visit to a grieving family he was asked, “Pastor, we have parted at the river of death. Will we meet again by the river of life?” Lowry assured her from Revelation 22:1 they they would. Then, later that afternoon he wrote both the words and the music of Shall We Gather at the River.
The arrangement may serve as well as an early goal for a progressing piano student as for an intermediate to advanced player this coming Sunday.
The intro announces the tune and calls the first line of the chorus to mind. After setting the meditative mood the first stanza is presented in right hand melody with left hand accompaniment that only occasionally
is rhythmically active beyond beat three. Then, the easily playable key change takes the vision to the bank of the “shining river” by way of a brief, flowing left hand figuration. A few easily-managed major seven chords and an expressive dotted eighth note or two later the “melody of peace” concludes with echoes of the intro, bringing both heart and hands to rest.
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