Sacrament Music

I’m back..

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I know it’s been a very long time since I last posted.

I set my writing aside when life began to overtake me. I had become a very fatigued working-mom and homeschool parent. I struggled with a general lack of confidence in myself and someone dissed my writing in a comment which had me question my attempts.

I was already so overwhelmed and discouraged, I set my music aside for a bit.

I’m better now. I have a customer service job at home where I wait for calls to come in, during the quiet times I have returned to my first love. 💗🎼

I have found this quiet time very productive. I can feel the music flow through me again and within the past few weeks. I have been able to simplify for organ the first 49 hymns in the green hymnbook. Hymns that at one time seemed complicated are unfolding themselves allowing me to see through the complexity and draw out a simpler design.

What i love about the organ is the sustaining of sound. Other than the melody, it isn’t necessary to play each note in the supportive body, as long as the sustained sounds support the harmonizing vocals.

Because I am an imperfect person/writer/composer and daughter of a couple of awesome heavenly parents, there may be some errors in my notations and spelling, so I will need a few extra pairs of eyes and ears to test drive my compositions.

I am not uploading these hymns until they are good-to-go.

Please drop me a line if you would like to beta-test these simplified hymns for organ.

*Note: These hymns are adapted for the LDS organist and current LDS church organs.

Have a blessed day!

Added Hymn # 175 to the Sacrament sheet music page

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Yep, I have been pretty quiet lately.  Sorry about that.  

I haven’t been writing any organ music lately – mostly because I wrote gobs of Christmas arrangements for last years Christmas program to accommodate our super low bass section.  I am still re-arranging music for them as needed.  I will try to post them on this site before next Christmas.

A few weeks ago I wrote a choir arrangement of ‘O, Come thou King of Kings’ and submitted to the Stake Music Director for consideration for next month’s stake conference.  It was accepted.  🙂

The Stake Choir Director wanted to sing the high soprano descant, so she asked me if I would be willing to trade places with her on that particular hymn – she would sing my soprano part and I would get to direct the stake choir – Cool Beans!  I will upload my arrangement for this hymn after Stake Conference next month. 

Tonight I looked over the pathetic list of sacrament songs, which two years ago, I promised to arrange, but allowed life to get the best of me.  So tonight I sat down and completed ‘O God, the Eternal Father’, Hymn #175.  I know I have said this before, but I will concentrate on trying to complete a hymn a week.  It takes 2-4 hours of time for me to arrange a hymn that I have pre-notated, so hopefully I can find a block of time each week to sit down and get one done.

Here is the link to this new organ arrangement ~ It’s free to download and use for non-commercial and church purposes.  
O_God,_the_Eternal_Father for Organ
You can also find this hymn listed on the Sacrament Hymns and Alphabetical Hymns Pages.

Enjoy!  
Elizabeth   🙂