This setting of the familiar text to the PLAINFIELD tune will be very easy and comforting to your church congregation. The piano opens with a 2-bar intro and voices enter with solo piano until m. 10 on the refrain where the instruments join in. A repeat is then offered for stanza 2, and a refreshing and uplifting key change is scored for the third stanza, where the treble clef instruments handle the first 10 bars, and the bass clef instruments join in for the refrain. Instruments double the piano for a beautiful key change into E-flat for the final (fourth) stanza, and the upper-range instruments play a lovely obbligato line above the melody. Includes a full score, a piano score, and all individual instrumental parts: treble clef C instrument, treble clef B-flat instrument, horn, and bass clef instrument.
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.
