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Rejoice! Engaging Hymn Settings for Piano.(Book review)
Rejoice! Engaging Hymn Settings for Piano, by Wendy Stevens. Concordia Publishing House (3558 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, MO 63118), 2006. 38 pp. $16.
Of the seven hymn arrangements in this collection, one is for Easter, one is patriotic, and the other five are for general use. All are well-crafted, pianistic and highly original. Characteristics include changing meters, modality, open fifths, pentatonicism, clusters, quartal chords and whole-tone scales. Amid these 20th-century compositional techniques, the tunes are always clearly presented, with some ...
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