Arise, My Soul, Arise--Piano/Organ Duet edition
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Instruments
Organ-Piano Duet
Organ Solo
Piano
Genres
Christian
Series
ArrangeMe
ArrangeMe
Leatherman Music Services
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Score and Parts
Set of Parts
Item Types
Digital
Levels
Late Intermediate
Usages
Sacred
Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Organ,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.829322

Composed by Text: Charles Wesley / Music by Lewis Edson and Lyndell Leatherman. Arranged by Lyndell Leatherman. Christian,Sacred. Score and parts. 19 pages. Leatherman Music Services #5742273. Published by Leatherman Music Services (A0.829322).

This is the piano/organ duet edition of this arrangement. It is compatible with the orchestration listed separately on SMP, and could be performed with the full orchestra or any of the sections: brass, woodwinds, or strings. The words of the hymn are included between the piano and organ systems, to aid the tech team in tracking with the music if displaying the lyrics during performance (a great idea since the arrangement is–in effect–a tone poem illustrating the narrative of the hymn).

Here are some program notes:

Charles Wesley (1707-1788) and his brother John (1703-1791), sons of an Anglican minister (Samuel), both trained for ministry at Oxford University. While there, they were labeled (somewhat derisively) "methodists" because of the strict regimen of spiritual exercises and scholarship that they developed. After a short unsuccessful stint as missionaries to the Colonies–Georgia, specifically–they returned home to England, frustrated in their spiritual lives. In an interesting parallel to John Newton’s life, it was during the sea voyage that seeds were planted, as they watched a group of Moravians experiencing amazing peace during rough seas. Shortly thereafter they experienced spiritual rebirth, and the rest is history–with John’s preaching and Charles’ hymn-writing becoming the catalyst for a great revival that swept across England. John wrote a few hymns himself, but mainly translated Moravian hymns from German and edited hymnbooks. Charles, on the other hand, wrote almost 9,000 poems, of which some 6,500 were hymn texts. This prodigious output earned him the posthumous title: "sweet bard of Methodism." His many hymns still in use today include "A Charge to Keep I Have," "Arise, My Soul, Arise," "Soldiers of Christ, Arise," "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today," "Rejoice, the Lord Is King," "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing," "Celebrate Immanuel’s Name," "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," "Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus," and "Ye Servants of God."

Days before his death at the age of 81, Charles preached in the City Road Chapel, London. The hymn preceding his sermon was Isaac Watts’ "I’ll Praise My Maker While I’ve Breath." Falling critically ill the next day, he amazed those around him by singing that entire hymn with a strong voice. Later that week he died, with that same hymn forming his last words.

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If you are curious about other resources that I am making available as I am "sheltering in place" here in May, 2020, please do a search of my name here on SMP...or go to my Facebook site <https://www.facebook.com/leathermanmusicservices>; where you can see and hear more of my published works. Thanks for your interest!

Lyndell Leatherman, ASCAP






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