[1a] Brother James Air [High key] “The Lord’s My Shepherd”

Title: Brother James Air [High key] [1a]

“The Lord’s My Shepherd” [Psalm 23]

Hymn variations for Choir and Piano [string instruments ad libitum]

Price:

$ 3.00 [High Key] SSATB Choral score (piano-vocal)   [5 pages]

Quantity:  [minimum of 8 copies]

Series: Hymn Variations

Text: “The Lord’s My Shepherd, I’ll not want”, Scottish Psalter, Edinburgh, 1650

[Paraphrase of Psalm 23. The five (5) stanzas correspond to most hymnals.]

Origin: tune: BROTHER JAMES’ AIR, by James Leith Macbeth Bain (ca. 1840-1925)

Setting by: Stephen Mager

Voicing: SSATB Choir [Tenor/Bass in unison]

Accompaniment: Piano

Instrumentation: Ad libitum: Violin, ’Cello, Double Bass. Set of Parts available separately.

Duration: 3:25

Listen: YouTube: [Recording pending.]

Notes:

Original Key of E flat major. Appropriate for chorus. 

Low key version also available.

Available separately:

[b.] [High Key] unison Treble Chorus score (piano-vocal) 

[c.] [High Key] Instrumental parts [Violin, ’Cello, Double Bass ad libitum]

SEE ALSO:  Brother James Air [Low key]

Additional Details

Date of Composition: April, 2017 (completed, April 21, 2017)

Composed for: Masterworks Children’s Chorus of Southern Illinois

Premiere:

April 23, 2017 – Masterworks Children’s Chorus (piano accompaniment) St. Paul UCC, Belleville, Illinois

June 11, 2017 –  Masterworks Children’s Chorus (instrumental version) St. Paul UCC, Belleville, Illinois