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Sunday Morning Pianist, arranged by Gail Smith. Creative Keyboard Publications, a division of Mel Bay Publications (P.O. Box 66, Pacific, MO 63069), 2003. 124 pp. $14.95. Upper-intermediate to advanced.
Sunday Morning Pianist is a collection of arrangements of forty-five hynms and religious songs, most well-known standards. The collection contains four patriotic pieces and a couple Christmas songs. The alphabetical index is at the end of the book.
For the most part, Gall Smith, a church pianist, has written arrangements to match the character and essence of the hymn or song. She uses interesting, and sometimes unusual, harmonies and key progressions. Occasionally, alters rhythms for a more contemporary flavor. Some hymns have a walking bass line, and almost all have arpeggio and broken-chord patterns.
Smith has written six varied arrangements in different keys for "Jesus Loves Me," and "O Worship The King" has ...