SKU: A0.1471049

This simple yet beautiful arrangement of “It Is Well With My Soul” captures this hymn’s comforting, hopeful nature and allows you to establish good habits in your playing.

Difficulty Level and Skills Required: Late-Beginner. The right hand plays a simple melody line using fingers 1-2-3-4 with some overlapping brackets. The left hand consists primarily of two-finger chords and rolled chords, with very few notes per measure.

Type of Harp: For big and small harps, 19 strings and larger.

Range: The lowest note is G below middle C. The highest note is C, two octaves above middle C.

Levers/Pedals: In the key of C major. There are a couple of F lever changes throughout.

TO NOTE: We also have an Early-Intermediate arrangement and a Late-Intermediate arrangement of this song.

SKU: AX.00-PC-0017125_TN2

UPC: 038081300337.

Sousa for jazz ensemble! Jazz trombonist, composer and arranger Wycliffe Gordon has created a tour de force on this traditional march. It has swing, Latin and New Orleans all rolled into one superb chart. Solos are (written) for trumpets 1 and 2. This chart will bring down the house! This title is available in SmartMusic.

SKU: A0.1120562

“He appeared and the soul felt its worth.� Kathleen Ryan's arrangement of the French religious song by Adolphe Adam, performed on her Christmas album, The Rebirth of Light. Kathleen's notes: Again, preferring silence to constant motion. I’ll confess that I was not inclined to record this piece. My husband really wanted it included on The Rebirth of Light, but I resisted because I had first heard it sung by a soprano with super-warbly vibrato. I thought the song was sort of tacky, although I did recognize that the tackiness came from the singing and not from the music itself. When I explained all this to him, he pointed out that any arrangement I created would never be “tacky� and that it wouldn’t have warbly vibrato either! I promised to play with it and just hear what I could create. I started with a sort of American Methodist hymnal 4–part chordal arrangement. And then the rolled chords appeared and away I went! Lyrical, spacious, spiritual. Suitable for use in church.

SKU: A0.1208769

Vagabond Jonathan Williams (b. 1991)

As the title suggests, Vagabond lacks a tonal center, or key (i.e. C major). Some refer to all such music as “atonal,� yet sections of this piece include a variety of chords and chord progressions that hint towards traditional tonality. For example, the first three rolled chords could be labeled B diminished, A major seventh, and F dominant ninth, respectively. Regardless of their possible names, these are chords commonly heard in tonal music, especially classical and jazz works.

While the piece weaves through hinted key areas, the melody wanders as well. The first two measures of the unaccompanied, opening theme include all twelve pitch classes (A, A♯, B, …, G, G♯) exactly once. This is called a “row,� and it is essential to twelve-tone music as first created by Arnold Schönberg (1874 - 1951). The remainder of Vagabond exclusively includes manipulations of the opening row. Various renderings of the row are audibly similar, while the majority obscure their resemblance by splitting the row across the hands, combining adjacent notes into chords, or modifying the rhythm.

After a final reprise of the opening, Vagabond commences with a series of fading chords and a last chord that may sound like a dominant seventh chord in its least common inversion. In this context, the sound and feel of a dominant seventh chord is lost. While this quality is frequently used as a penultimate chord to instill intensity before an anticipated finale, in Vagabond it serves to let the listener imagine an endless wandering.

SKU: A0.865615

A good teaching tool and a popular wedding processional. Rolled chords at the outset make a good announcement of the bridal party and it can be stopped anywhere to suit the length of the processional.

SKU: A0.1231786

An arrangement for solo piano of the breathtaking finale to Mahler's resurrection symphony. The major challenge is to try to recreate something of the grandeur and enormity of the work with just two hands on the piano! There are some significant stretches and rolled chords so performers should feel free to leave out notes they can't comfortably reach.

SKU: A0.1320692

'Stumbling Fingers' is an atonal piano solo approximately 2:17 in duration. 
Sometimes, I like to experiment with nontraditional composing methods. To create this piece, for example, I took the melodic rhythm of a well-known (public domain) work by another composer and changed each pitch using a twelve-sided die. I set the notes and C above middle C (C5) and then went up or down the scale in half-steps based on what I rolled. After a little tweaking, I added the accompaniment from another source (also well-known and in the public domain), 'Stumbling Fingers' is the end result.