Piano Solo - Intermediate - Digital Download By Brenda Dillon. Arranged by Brenda Dillon. Sheet Music Single. 3 pages. Published by Dillon's Music Group

Arranged by Brenda Dillon. Classical, Standards. Score. 20 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6052633. Published by Dillon's Music Group

Small Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.918294 Arranged by Brenda Dillon. Christmas. Score and parts. 11 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6169497. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918294). Brenda Dillon's arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter for SATB choir, piano accompaniment and flute or another C instrument, is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti. The poem was published in Scribner's Monthly in 1872. It first appeared as a musical setting by Gustav Holst in The English Hymnal in 1906.About the composer: Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement. In addition to her contributions to the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday, she also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S. As well as serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching. She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred Music listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918278 Composed by Brenda Dillon. Sacred. Score. 4 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6053181. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918278). If There Is Love was originally written for choir and was premiered during a service at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas.  Brenda later transcribed it as a piano solo dedicated to the memory of her mother, Dorothy Duncan, who was a living embodiment of humility, grace, mercy and love.About the composer:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement. She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching. She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred Music listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918253 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. Christmas. Score. 3 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013019. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918253). We Three Kings of Orient Are was written by John Henry Hopkins, Jr. in 1857.  He was a church rector and wrote this carol for a Christmas pageant.  Included in Brenda Dillon's Memories of Christmas Collection - Book 1, this arrangement begins with a lilting introduction before establishing the melody at a slower tempo.About the arranger:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918269 Composed by Dillon's Music Group. Sacred. Score. 1 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6015973. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918269). If There Is Love is an original composition by Brenda Dillon and is dedicated to her mother, Dorothy Duncan.  One of Dorothy's favorite scriptures was I Corinthians - Chapter 13.  Dorothy's entire life was influenced by her belief that the greatest of these is love.  She was a living embodiment of humility, grace, mercy and charity.  She brought these words to life by her behaviors and interactions with every path she crossed.About the composer:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM Sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918261 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. African. Score. 3 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013047. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918261). Deep River, perhaps the best known and best-loved of all spirituals, referred to the slaves' yearning for freedom and the rivers that would have to be crossed to get to the Promised Land.  They thought of these mighty waters as rivers flowing into distant horizons.  Campgrounds may refer to secret worship services.  They sang longingly:  Deep River, My home is over Jordan, Deep River, Lord, I want to cross over into campground. (included in Brenda Dillon's African American Collection)About the arranger:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918260 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. Christmas. Score. 4 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013041. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918260). Yuletide Medley includes three beloved carols - O Little Town of Bethlehem, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear and Silent Night.  The text of the first one was written by an Episcopal priest.  The second one may have been influenced by Felix Mendelssohn, a contemporary of the composers.  Silent Night is an Austrian folk-carol originally composed for soloists, choirs and guitar, but was first sung as a duet with guitar accompaniment.  It is one of the most recorded songs in the world. It is included in Memories of Christmas Collection-Book 2- by Brenda Dillon .About the arranger:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918263 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. African. Score. 3 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013063. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918263). There Is a Balm in Gilead is a traditional spiritual which contains a reference from the Old and New Testament.  A balm is a salve for a wound, and figuratively, it means a universal cure.  The lyrics suggest a promising healing to those who suffer:  There is a balm in Gilead, To make the wounded whole, There is a balm in Gilead, To heal the sin-sick soul. (Included in Brenda Dillon's African American Collection)About the arranger:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Small Ensemble - Digital Download SKU: A0.918265 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. Contemporary. Score and parts. 3 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013065. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918265). The Water Is Wide and Wade in the Water suggest a uniting of a folk song and a spiritual.  The Water Is Wide is a folk song of Scottish origin and Wade in the Water is a spiritual that contains explicit instructions to fugitive slaves on how to avoid capture and which routes to take to successfully make their way to freedom.  Escaping in water was a strategy to throw pursuing bloodhounds off one's trail.  They were encouraged to follow these directions:  Wade in the water, Wade in the water children, Wade in the water, God's gonna trouble the water. (included in Brenda Dillon's African American Collection).About the arranger: Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918255 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. Christmas. Score. 3 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013029. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918255). Mary Had a Baby is a 19th century spiritual that reflects experiences and cultures encountered by enslaved Africans. Since spirituals are rarely sung the same way twice, there is an improvisational aspect to them.  Included in Brenda Dillon's Memories of Christmas Collection - Book 2, this arrangement evokes feelings of reverence as well as the comfort that comes from a celebration of joy.About the arranger:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918250 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. Christmas. Score. 3 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013003. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918250). In the Bleak Midwinter is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet, Christian Rossetti, and set to music by the English composer, Gustav Holst in 1906.  Included in Brenda Dillon's Memories of Christmas Collection - Book 1, this arrangement evokes feelings of darkness, bleakness and cold.  It concludes, though, with the joy His birth brought to the world.  It is one of the most beloved Christmas carols in the English world.About the arranger:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918257 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. Christmas. Score. 3 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013035. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918257). Still, Still, Still is an Austrian folk tune from Salzburg.  The words describe the peace of the infant Jesus and his mother as the baby is sung to sleep.  Included in Brenda Dillon's Memories of Christmas Collection - Book 2, this arrangement is both sophisticated and pianistic.About the arranger:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918264 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. African. Score. 3 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013057. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918264). Swing Low, Sweet Chariot refers to the Biblical story of the Prophet Elijah's being taken to Heaven by a chariot.  The lyrics also contain a veiled reference to the Underground Railroad.  Spirituals were often sung as call and response:  Swing low, sweet chariot (Coming for to carry me home), Swing low, sweet chariot (Coming for to carry me home.) I looked over Jordan and what did I see? (Coming for to carry me home), A band of angels coming after me (Coming for to carry me home.) (Included in Brenda Dillon's African American Collection)About the arranger:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.918262 Arranged by Dillon's Music Group. African. Score. 3 pages. Dillon's Music Group #6013055. Published by Dillon's Music Group (A0.918262). Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child is traced back to the era of slavery.  It's an expression of pain and despair as the lyrics describe the hopelessness of a child torn from its parents.  Steal Away is a song with a coded message, not only about having faith in God, but messages about slaves running away to seek their freedom.  Sung softly in the dark of night, it was a signal that the coast was clear and now was the time to escape their bondage.  They sang hopefully:  Steal away, steal away, Steal away to Jesus! Steal away, steal away home, I ain't got long to stay here. (included in Brenda Dillon's African American Collection)About the arranger:  Brenda Dillon is best known for her contributions to the Recreational Music Making movement.  She served on the RMM Committee that designed the RMM Track for MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday.  She also presented group piano and RMM sessions throughout the U.S.  In addition to serving as a teacher trainer, she has written extensive articles on both group piano and RMM teaching.  She has publications with Hal Leonard and Alfred listed on her website (www.brendadillon.com).