Here is an arrangement of a familiar, well-loved hymn from ChurchWorksMedia. The congregation will sing the first stanza with piano only, and then advance to the second stanza with all instrumentation. The third and fourth stanzas are divided into ladies (omitting the refrain) and men (with the refrain), and instruments and piano join in on a glorious key change for the final (fifth) stanza, and refrain to declare, “O love divine, O matchless grace, that God should die for men!” A repeated tag is offered at the very end, “With joyful grief I lift my praise, abhorring all my sin, adoring only Him.” Includes a full score, a piano score, and all individual instrumental parts: treble clef C instrument, treble clef B-flat instrument, horn, bass clef instrument, and guitar.
Real Responses from Congregations
Molly plays for the church my mother-in-law attends. The congregation becomes like a big choir with her arrangements. I’ve enjoyed the music when we’ve visited!
The beautiful accompaniment and the unison congregation could be used both congregationally and chorally (as we did)… For small to medium-sized choirs on low attendance Sundays these could be effective choral pieces or as a way to develop choir and orchestra when (as is our case) some choir members are also instrumentalists. We used three pieces as part of our Easter celebration. All were very well received. We were able to include our developing orchestra with all of it. So, thank you!
We love using these arrangements at Valley Community Baptist Church in our worship setting, regardless if we are using just piano and organ on a particular Sunday, or our full orchestra with choir and congregation. As the organist, the conductors score offers a great organ score option as an asset for churches using organ with these settings without revamping the piano score, making it quite easy… Thank you, Molly!
Molly’s congregational accompaniments add a freshness to treasured hymns of the past that enables a cross-generational congregation to join together in passionate worship of a great God.
