Your Favorite Thanksgiving and Harvest Hymns for Strings

This collection of Thanksgiving and Harvest hymns contains all your favorites, or at least, most of them. It is probably all you will ever need for thanksgiving and harvest festivals and the arrangements can be used for virtually any combination of stringed instruments. This is an essential title for any string library or for any string ensembles that are called upon to provide music for schools, Thanksgiving events or churches. The arrangements can be used with string quartet, string quintet or string ensemble or performed as solo pieces. There is also an optional but useful simplified keyboard part intended for less experienced keyboard players. The piano part too means that you can use the arrangements as solos, duets or trios. These arrangements are intended either as stand-alone pieces that could be used as interludes in a service, or they could be used to accompany solo, choral or congregational singing. To make the music accessible to less experienced string players, the range of the notes has been kept fairly low so that many of the arrangements can be played in first position. However, to produce a brighter and richer sound, a few of the more experienced violinists could play an octave higher. You could also use the arrangements as flute or oboe solo pieces, with the wind instrument playing the 1st violin part. Each hymn has a four-staff score and parts are provided for Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello and optional Double bass. Because string-friendly keys are used, these arrangements are NOT compatible with those in the wind collection of the same name.