Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1254594 By Barbra Streisand. By Katherine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward. Arranged by Timothy Stapay. Film/TV,Historic,Holiday,Patriotic,Singer/Songwriter. Score. 4 pages. Timothy Stapay #848195. Published by Timothy Stapay (A0.1254594). This is an arrangement of America The Beautiful, written for upper intermediate level piano.  It contains an introduction using Battle Hymn Of The Republic.America the Beautiful is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. The two never met.In 1893, at the age of 33, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach at Colorado College. Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem.Lyrics:O beautiful for spacious skiesFor amber waves of grainFor purple mountain majestiesAbove the fruited plain!America! America!God shed his grace on theeAnd crown thy good with brotherhoodFrom sea to shining sea!O beautiful for pilgrim feetWhose stern impassioned stressA thoroughfare of freedom beatAcross the wilderness!America! America!God mend thine every flawConfirm thy soul in self-controlThy liberty in law!O beautiful for heroes provedIn liberating strifeWho more than self their country lovedAnd mercy more than life!America! America!May God thy gold refineTill all success be noblenessAnd every gain divine! O beautiful for patriot dreamThat sees beyond the yearsThine alabaster cities gleamUndimmed by human tears!America! America!God shed his grace on theeAnd crown thy good with brotherhoodFrom sea to shining sea!O beautiful for halcyon skiesFor amber waves of grainFor purple mountain majestiesAbove the enameled plain!America! America!God shed his grace on theeTill souls wax fair as earth and airAnd music-hearted sea!O beautiful for pilgrims feetWhose stem impassioned stressA thoroughfare for freedom beatAcross the wilderness!America! America!God shed his grace on theeTill paths be wrought throughWilds of thoughtBy pilgrim foot and knee! O beautiful for glory-taleOf liberating strifeWhen once and twiceFor man's availMen lavished precious life!America! America!God shed his grace on theeTill selfish gain no longer stainThe banner of the free!O beautiful for patriot dreamThat sees beyond the yearsThine alabaster cities gleamUndimmed by human tears!America! America!God shed his grace on theeTill nobler men keep once againThy whiter jubilee!

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.821402 Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Arranged by Judith L. Maggs. Christian,Classical,Easter,Religious,Sacred. Score. 4 pages. Maggs #6332421. Published by Maggs (A0.821402). This stirring hymn dates from the 17th century. It celebrates the victory of Easter morning.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.922829 Composed by Various. Arranged by Jayne Nitz. Christian,Sacred. Score. 19 pages. Jayne Nitz #6327373. Published by Jayne Nitz (A0.922829). The unique aspect of these short hymn-based offertories is their flexible length. When the offertory goes by quickly, as it does in a smaller church or even an efficient larger church, a pianist needs to be able to end a piece quickly, or extend it if there are a few more in attendance. I’ve included directions for doing this written right into the music.Each arrangement takes the tune in a bit of a new direction and could be used as pre-service music, post-service music, and for filling other awkward variable-length silences in a church service (as when the organist/pianist takes communion).Titles by common hymn name: (listening sample has excerpts of titles with * below)Amazing Grace*Beautiful Savior*Behold the Lamb of God (Lent, Good Friday)Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia (Easter)*Lord, Thee I Love With All My HeartOpen Now They Gates of Beauty*Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me*The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came/ Oh, Come, Oh, Come, Emmanuel (Advent, Christmas)*The Strife Is O’er, the Battle Done (Easter)Titles by hymn tune: ECCE AGNUSGABRIEL’S MESSAGE/ VENI, EMMANUELHERZLICH LIEB HAB ICH DICH, O HERRMFURAHINI HALELUYANEW BRITAINSCHÖNSTER HERR JESUTOPLADYUNSER HERRSCHERVICTORYIf you like these flexible-length offertories, I have another volume of ten titled Little Offertories for Little Churches published with Northwestern Publishing House at:www.nph.net.