Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.548706 Composed by Adam. Arranged by James M. Guthrie, ASCAP. Christmas,Standards. 18 pages. Jmsgu3 #3411563. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.548706). Cantique de Noël The French composer Adolphe Adam was already famous as a composer of many successful ballets and operas. Then, in the 1840s, he wrote his most famous work - O Holy Night. The original song title was Minuit Chretiens or Cantique de Noël.  Placide Cappeau provided the original song lyrics. The song was first performed in Roquemaure by the opera singer Emily Laurey at midnight mass in 1847. It became trendy among the French, much like Silent Night was famous elsewhere. In 1850, John S. Dwight, a Unitarian minister and music teacher, translated the song into English.   Adolphe Adam Adam studied organ and composition at the Paris Conservatoire in his younger years. He also played the timpani in the Conservatoire orchestra. Adam used his savings and borrowed money to open a new opera house - the fourth opera house in Paris in 1847. Unfortunately, the Revolution of 1848 forced him to close. He taught composition at the Paris Conservatoire from 1849 until he died in 1856. Placide Cappeau The poet Cappeau was an advocate of the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire was renowned for criticizing the Catholic church, religious intolerance, and dogma in general. Consequently, Cappeau made the Redeemer figure in his song a kind of reformer of injustices, particularly the problem of original sin. To begin with, people recognized Cappeau's theology as eccentric, probably even doubtful. Theology In the earlier form of Minuit, the Christ figure descends to intervene with His Father's plan to punish humanity. Traditional doctrine pronounces that Christ came from love, not to intervene. This version also declares that Christ appeared to delete the original sin of Adam. Cappeau removed this part from his poem years later because he didn't believe it. He preferred to portray Christ as the reformer of disparity and unfairness. Before long, the writer/politician Alphonse de Lamartine called the Minuit the Marseillaise of religion. Most French churchmen agreed with this idea but did not consider it a tribute.    

Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.525145 Composed by Lewis H. Redner, Edward MacDowell. Arranged by John A. Dempsey. Christian,Christmas,Holiday,Sacred,Traditional. Score and parts. 21 pages. John A. Dempsey #6623463. Published by John A. Dempsey (A0.525145). Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.  A favorite Christmas carol with its everlasting light, O Little Town of Bethlehem is arranged here as a piano quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano.  The incidental music, composed by Edward MacDowell, is the beautiful To a Wild Rose from his Woodland Sketches.  Recommended for Christmas plays, pageants and programs, holiday recitals and Christmas concerts as well as traditional Christmas church services and other seasonal worship events, as a prelude, postlude, an offertory, interlude, Christmas play overture, silent prayer accompaniment and special music.  17 pages of music (that includes separate two-page parts for violin, viola and cello).  Key: G major

Piano Quartet,String Ensemble Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1104206 Composed by John Henry Hopkins, Jr. and Enrique Granados. Arranged by John A. Dempsey. Christian,Christmas,Holiday,Sacred,Traditional. Score and parts. 22 pages. John A. Dempsey #707422. Published by John A. Dempsey (A0.1104206). This piano quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano of the warm, evocative Christmas carol We Three Kings of Orient Are follows a musical path that merges with the wintry road leading to Enrique Granados' delicately beautiful piece Oriental.  A bit of holiday serendipity!  Recommended for Christmas pageants, plays and programs, holiday recitals and Christmas concerts as well as traditional Christmas church services and other seasonal worship events, as a prelude, postlude, an offertory, interlude, Christmas play overture, silent prayer accompaniment and special music.  18 pages of music (that includes separate two-page parts for violin, viola and cello).  Concert Key: A minor     We three kings of Orient are: bearing gifts we traverse afar     Field and fountain, moor and mountain - following yonder star.     O star of wonder, star of night; star with royal beauty bright,     Westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to Thy perfect light.

Piano Quartet Cello,Piano,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.525137 Composed by Traditional Scottish Melody. Arranged by John A. Dempsey. Celtic,Easter,Irish,Spiritual,Traditional,Wedding. 18 pages. John A. Dempsey #6323387. Published by John A. Dempsey (A0.525137). Give me a boat that can carry two and both shall row, my love and I.  From a rich, vibrant Celtic tradition comes the classic The Water is Wide, lovingly crafted to evoke misty Scottish landscapes with rolling green hills (you can almost smell the heather).  This unabashedly romantic piano quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano is perfect for weddings and  ceilidhs (or any Celtic-themed music event) as well as recitals and concerts.  As wedding music, The Water is Wide stirs the heart as a prelude, unity candle accompaniment, a bridal march or a bridesmaid processional.          Since the melody (O Waly Waly) has been used in multiple hymn settings, including The Gift of Love, Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire and as an alternate melody for When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, this piano quartet is also effective for traditional church services and other worship events, as a prelude, postlude, an offertory, interlude, special music and silent prayer accompaniment.  14 pages of music (that includes separate two-page pullout parts for violin, viola and cello).  Key: G major.