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Category Archives: Finale demo
Soft Rains of Spring (Korea)
I am neck deep in the Holy Week flood of services and feeling pretty overwhelmed. What does Greg do when he’s feeling burned out and cranky? He writes music. Today I was reading through a packet of Korean songs given … Continue reading
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A Gluttonous Feast of Rejection, Fourth Course
Update 3/22/22: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Our fourth course, a dessert of dismissal and dejection, is a tune for Stephen Starke’s text, “Jesus, Greatest at the Table.” ThisĀ 8.7.8.7.8.7 Maundy Thursday text was the last … Continue reading
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A Gluttonous Feast of Rejection, Third Course
Our third course of anticipated rejection is a new tune for “Blest are the Innocents” by Sylvia Dunstan. This text is about the Slaughter of the Innocents, when Herod killed every male under two in the hopes of killing Jesus, … Continue reading
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The God of Abraham Praise
In December I blogged about an arrangement of mine that we used in this year’s Lessons & Carols service at Church of the Servant. The hymn “The God of Abraham Praise” fits beautifully with the reading about the calling of … Continue reading
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A Humble Mass
A while back NPM (National Pastoral Musicians) held a contestĀ for new musical settings of the English Mass which was recently approved by the US Roman Catholic bishops. For those of you who aren’t Catholic, even small changes in the … Continue reading
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Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed
I was reading Bruce Benedict’s very excellent Cardophonia blog today, and he had a post with four different musical renditions of Isaac Watt’s text “Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed.” That reminded me that I have never uploaded my choral … Continue reading
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ALLITERATION: a new hymn tune in 8787D
Update: Sheet music for this tune (still waiting for a text to call its own) is now available at gregscheer.com. Hymn tunes are funny things. They are compact little musical expositions that are given a few dozen measures to introduce … Continue reading
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Before the Cross
One of my favorite hymn tunes is O WALY WALY (often associated with the song “The Water Is Wide”) and one of my favorite hymn texts is “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.” I often put them together, to the … Continue reading
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Oh Holy Night
On Christmas Eve we’ll sing my brand spanking new arrangement of “O Holy Night.” To help the musicians prepare, here’s an MP3, score and parts (choir/piano, strings, brass, percussion). Strings–get cracking on that high part in the refrain!
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Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Here’s a little something I whipped up this afternoon: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing. Okay, “whipped up” and “this afternoon” makes it sound too easy. I’ve actually been carrying around a rough draft of this in my backpack for … Continue reading
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