300 Sacred Songs

from Schmelli's Hymnal for Voice and Guitar BWV 439-507. Johann Sebastian Bach?s arrangements of the ?69 Sacred Songs? from the Musical Hymnal by Georg Christian Schemelli (Leipzig, 1736) have long been part of the German language vocal concert repertoire and a mainstay in vocal pedagogy. Originally, only these 69 of the 954 hymns in the collection were published with a single bass line as the accompaniment. Bach?s contribution was to specify harmonies to be played over those same bass lines by adding figured bass numbers and symbols beneath each note.A figured bass line can easily be turned into a relatively simple guitar accompaniment or a more elaborate setting, offering a range of possibilities that make working with this music both interesting and rewarding for the guitarist. While other period and modern editions of the ?69 Sacred Songs? offer accompaniments for keyboard instruments, this Mel Bay publication features intermediate to advanced transcriptions exclusively for the guitar.Best suited to college-level players or advanced aficionados, this special Mel Bay Publications edition includes the vocal line with German lyrics and the guitar accompaniment transcribed from Bach?s figured bass lines. Written in guitar-friendly keys, 29 of the transcriptions employ a capo to achieve the original key designed for high voices. Without the capo, these same arrangements would be suitable to be sung by lower voices. The remaining 40 hymns are in their original guitar-friendly keys and so do not require a capo.This volume contains accompaniment settings of all 69 of the sacred songs and arias for which Bach wrote figured bass annotation. For performance variety and convenience, this book includes online access to PDFs of the ?Scores in their Original Keys,? and stand-alone ?Guitar Accompaniment,? and ?Bass Parts".

The Album Of Sacred Songs was first published in 1918 as part of the ever-popular Schirmer's Library Of Musical Classics. Since then it has been re-released and re-printed many times but the original and much-loved collection of songs it contains has remained the same. Hidden within its 100+ pages are 22 sacred works by Bizet Gounod Hiller Mendelssohn Saint-Saens and many others all arranged for High Voice and Piano. This is a volume that will be treasured and re-used many times.

A Suite of songs for unaccompanied choir poems by Thomas Campion. Four Sacred Songs was commissioned by the Essex Baroque Choir conductor Simon Thompson and was given its first London performance at St James Piccadilly in September 1990. It is a setting of poems from Thomas Campion's First Book Of Ayres: Intended chiefly for concert performance it gives choirs the chance to present these beautiful seventeenth-century poems in a new light.

Have even more fun learning to play the ukulele with 14 familiar sacred songs! The arrangements in this book correlate to Alfred's Kid's Ukulele Course, Books 1, 2, and Complete---with handy page references throughout to help you integrate them directly into your lessons. Plus, the accompanying CD contains every song performed by a professional ukulele player for listening and playing along. / Ukulélé

Twelve sacred songs including 'The Lord's Prayer' 'I Wonder As I Wander' and 'The 23rd Psalm'. Accompanying CD contains Piano accompaniments.