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[1c] Brother James Air [High key] Instrumental [Violin, ’Cello, Double Bass]

$6.00Price

 

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

“The Lord’s My Shepherd” [Psalm 23]

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

 

Price:

$ 6.00 [High Key] Instrumental parts [Violin, ’Cello, Double Bass]

 

Quantity: (complete sets)

 

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 or unison Choir

 

Accompaniment: Piano [with string instruments ad libitum]

 

Instrumentation: Ad libitum: Violin, ’Cello, Double Bass [set of three parts].

 

Duration: 3:25

 

Listen: YouTube: [Recording pending.]

 

Notes: Original Key of E flat major. Parts correspond to this version only.

 

Available separately:

[a.] [High Key] SSATB Chorus score (piano-vocal)

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

 

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

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