Showing 21–30 of 354 results
-
BEACH SPRING – strings
[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/beach_spring-strings-demo.mp3"][/audio]BEACH SPRING is a lovely American folk tune often paired with the text “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus.” (Also “As We Gather at Your Table,” “Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters,” and “Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy.”) This arrangement was written for use in communion, so it is divided into distinct sections that allow it to end or continue depending on how much time is needed. Of course, it would work beautifully as a prelude, etc.
Download includes score and parts for two violins, viola, cello, and bass. Purchase price allows you to print as many copies as needed for your ensemble.
-
Before the Cross / When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (O WALY WALY)
[audio m4a="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/o_waly_waly.m4a"][/audio]
One of my favorite hymn tunes is O WALY WALY, and one of my favorite hymn texts is “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.” This Just Add People arrangement combines them and adds an original refrain. This arrangement could also be used with other texts sung to O WALY WALY, either with or without the refrain.Piano accompaniment for congregational singing, including original refrain.
-
Before Your Manger, Here I Stand / Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier
https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/before_your_manger.mp3
Looking for a Christmas piece that’s a little off the beaten path? This beloved German Christmas carol has been newly translated and arranged. The choir parts are not at all difficult, and the anthem can be accompanied by piano alone. However, if you do have flute, recorder, guitar, or strings available, the music becomes absolutely exquisite.
Anthem for SATB choir, flute, recorder, classical guitar, and strings. Download includes score and parts; purchase price allows you to print as many copies as you need for your ensemble.
-
Behold the Love
https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/behold_the_love.mp3
Barton W. Stone (of Stone-Cambell movement fame) wrote only one hymn: “Behold the Love, the Grace of God.” What struck me about Stone’s text is how effusive it is: “My soul’s on fire, it pants to prove the fullness of redeeming love.” Though I decided to write new lyrics, I tried to retain the original text’s first-person awe and gratefulness for Jesus’ sacrifice. This would be a great song for communion or Good Friday. Think of it as a gospel sibling of “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.”
This leadsheet is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.
-
Behold, a Table Is Spread
http://musicblog.gregscheer.com/behold_a_table_is_spread.mp3
This song draws its inspiration from John S.B. Monsell’s 1866 hymn “I Hunger and I Thirst.” I added a chorus and rewrote the original text. Drawing from the “I AM” titles for Jesus, the three verses of this uptempo communion hymn focus on bread, blood, and water.
This leadsheet is a free download. If you sing this song in your church please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense.
-
Benediction (The Last Word)
Price range: $0.00 through $5.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pagehttp://musicblog.gregscheer.com/benediction-the_last_word.mp3
The song’s genesis began with some phrases scratched on the back of a church bulletin. The phrase that stuck was “from the postlude to the prelude.” (That’s also the title of a book about church music administration by Randall Bradley.) From there I started to flesh out the kinds of things that could, indeed should, be understood as part of a worshipful life. Some of these seem clear: a playground feels like part of God’s world. But what about a prison?
-
BIG OLD TREE
https://archive.gregscheer.com/sounds/big_old_tree.mp3
Hymn tunes shouldn’t only be for the older folks, right? Here’s a common meter tune that would work perfectly for a children’s song. The last phrase is repeated, so you can think of it as 8.6.8.6.8.6.
This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write your own lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please let me know how you’ve used it.
-
Blessed Be!
Price range: $25.00 through $35.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page[audio mp3="https://gregscheer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/blessed_be.mp3"][/audio]The words of Zechariah take on a gospel flavor in this new setting of Luke 1:67-79. Performances can be scaled from an a cappella rendition to a full blown band version which includes rollicking piano, hip hop drum set, sizzling horns (trumpet, alto sax and trombone), and funky bass. For those of you who are more adventurous, it even includes the optional “Blessed Be Rap.” A sure way to get your Advent or Christmas concert smokin’!
-
BLEST BE THOU
https://musicblog.gregscheer.com/blest_are_the_innocents.mp3
This tune was originally written for “Blest Are the Innocents” by Sylvia Dunstan, a text about the Slaughter of the Innocents, when Herod killed every male under two in the hopes of killing Jesus, the prophesied King. Dunstan wrote the text with the 10.10.10.10 tune SLANE (“Be Thou My Vision”) in mind. However, a well-loved tune like SLANE may cause some cognitive dissonance with the grim subject matter of the text, so consider this alternative.
This is an orphan tune, waiting to be adopted by a text to call its own. If you write lyrics for this melody or pair it with an existing text, please report its use to CCLI or OneLicense and let me know how you’ve used it.
-
Born to Die, Born to Rise
http://musicblog.gregscheer.com/born_to_die_born_to_rise.mp3
Christmas can become saccharine when it’s populated only with sweet baby Jesuses, choruses of angels, and mild Marys. Just as the Magis’ myrrh foreshadowed Jesus’ burial, “Ah, Holy Jesus” reminds us of the full meaning of the incarnation. This piece weaves “Lo, How a Rose” and “Ah, Holy Jesus” together in musical counterpoint that thickens both their differences and underlying unity. After focusing on these two sides of Christ, our only response can be praise; the piece ends with a rousing rendition of “All My Heart Again Rejoices.”
Full orchestration for choirs, piano, organ, and brass. Price allows you to make as many copies as you need for your ensemble.