SKU: A0.518084

Written December 27, 2021, this is an original English horn & piano composition in a minimalist style with shades of A minor and D minor. There is a separate English horn part in the score and the piano part as seen can serve as an independent solo. The piano accompaniment as heard is available under Night Visions No. 5 - Musings Piano Track at Sheet Music Plus. James Michael Stevens is a prolific composer residing in Nashville, TN and serves as the Music Department Chairman of Welch College.

SKU: A0.592568

18 Easy Gospel Hymns Vol.1 for Solo English Horn and Piano is a beautiful collection of your best-loved Gospel Hymns and Spirituals. They are arranged simply in the most suitable range and key for the solo instrument. The preview only shows a few pages of the piano score, but this is followed by a separate solo instrumental part, adding up to 49 pages of quality music.

The standard is early intermediate. Players with a year or two’s experience will enjoy playing these Gospel hymns, with plenty of interest in both the solo and the piano parts. These hymns are ideal for use in concerts or worship, formal or informal. The hymns are in alphabetical order and are as follows

·    Abide with Me, 

·    Amazing Grace, 

·    Blessed Assurance, 

·    Deep River, 

·    Down by the Riverside, 

·    Go Down Moses, 

·    Go Tell It on the Mountain, 

·    He’s Got the Whole World in HIs Hands, 

·    Higher Ground, 

·    Jesus on the Mainline, 

·    Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho, 

·    Just a Closer Walk with Thee, 

·    Just as I Am, 

·    Just Over in the Glory Land, 

·    Kumbaya My Lord, 

·    Love Lifted Me, 

·    Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, 

·    Nothing but the Blood of Jesus. 

If you like these Gospel Hymns, then there are another eighteen just like them in Volume 2. To find them copy and paste 18 Easy Gospel Hymns Vol.2 for Solo English Horn and Piano in the Search Bar above. There are also duet versions of these Gospel hymns available on Sheet Music Plus, and more advanced duet arrangements of your Gospel favourites in the 10 Gospel Duets series.

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SKU: A0.517957

Written December 25, 2021, this is an original English horn and piano composition in an introspective style. There is a separate English horn part in the score and the piano part as seen can serve as an independent solo. The piano accompaniment as heard is available under Night Visions No. 4 - Enigmas Piano Track at Sheet Music Plus. James Michael Stevens is a prolific composer residing in Nashville, TN.

SKU: A0.549496

ENGLISH HORN & PIANO - Score: 11 pages, solo part: 3 pages, piano part: 5 pages. Duration: 4:20. This is a popular recital piece that would work well also in church or school programs.

Mendelssohn Background

Felix Mendelssohn (1809 –1847) was, by all means, a German mastermind composer, musician, and orchestra conductor of the Romantic period. Consequently, Mendelssohn composed in the usual forms of the time - symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music, and chamber music. To summarize, his most famous works include his music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, The Hebrides Overture, his later Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, and his Octet for Strings. His most well-known piano pieces, by and large, are the Songs Without Words. 

Artistic Standing

 Musical tastes change from time to time. Moreover, just such a change occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This plus rampant antisemitism brought a corresponding amount of undue criticism. Fortunately, however, his artistic inventiveness has indeed been critically re-evaluated. As a result, Mendelssohn is once again among the most prevalent composers of the Romantic era.

Early Family Life

Mendelssohn was, in fact, born into a prominent Jewish family. His grandfather was, notably, the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Felix was, in fact, raised without religion. At the age of seven, he was suddenly baptized as a Reformed Christian. He was, moreover, a child musical prodigy. Nevertheless, his parents did not attempt to exploit his talent.

Early Adulthood

Mendelssohn was, in general, successful in Germany. He conducted, in particular, a revival of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, specifically with his presentation of the St Matthew Passion in 1829. Felix was truly in demand throughout Europe as a composer, conductor, and soloist. For example, he visited Britain ten times. There, he premiered, namely, many of his significant works. His taste in music was. To be sure, inventive and well-crafted yet markedly conservative. This conservatism separated him by all means from more audacious musical colleagues like Liszt, Wagner, and Berlioz. Mendelssohn founded the Leipzig Conservatoire which, to clarify, became a defender of this conservative viewpoint.

Mature Adulthood

Schumann notably wrote that Mendelssohn was the Mozart of the nineteenth century, the most brilliant musician, the one who most clearly sees through the contradictions of the age and for the first time reconciles them. This observation points to a couple of features in particular that illustrate Mendelssohn's works and his artistic procedure.

Musical Features

In the first place, his musical style was fixed in his systematic mastery of the style of preceding masters. This being said, he certainly recognized and even developed early romanticism from the music of Beethoven and Weber. Secondly, it indicates that Mendelssohn sought to strengthen his inherited musical legacy rather than to exchange it with new forms and styles or replace it with exotic orchestration. Consequently, he diverged his contemporaries in the romantic period, such as Wagner, Berlioz, and Liszt. Mendelssohn revered Liszt's virtuosity at the keyboard but found his music rather insubstantial.