Back in 2012 I wrote this arrangement as a solo. Link to that post. Since then I have had a few requests to make it a choir arrangement. Well, I finially did it! This is a bright and joyful Christmas song and those are my favorite!
Once in Royal David’s City SATB (PDF)
Hear the four parts with the MIDI playback:
Here’s an old recording of my quite voice (just the solo):
Here is a jubilant arrangement of Hymn 291 in Hymnplicity style. I’ve even created a paper to give to choir members to use with their hymn books. Or, just print out the 4 pages and give that to choir members 🙂
When our stake choir director asked if I could arrange the song “Turn Your Hearts”, I was so excited. Whenever I’m working on a project to help a chorister, I always finish it quickly and it usually turns out pretty good. This time was no exception.
The cool thing was that our stake conference was in the Alpine Tabernacle. It is a grand and beautiful place. It was so fun to perform the song there!
I was grateful to work on a song about family history. The lyrics have gone through my mind since I’ve been working on it and it has inspired me to focus more on it.
I’m in the middle of writing a choir arrangement to this song. I decided to publish just the parts to this early because I’m thinking of entering it for the new Hymn book. If you like this melody and these parts, please suggest it to the church here. Feel free to copy and paste this in the second box for new hymn to be included: Weary Not/arranged by: Danielle Isaacson/www.alloverthepiano.com
This is one of President Monson’s favorite hymns. I heard him quote it in a general conference talk, so I looked it up. I love the lyrics but I thought the music could be updated, so, that’s what I did.
Just wait until the choir arrangement comes out! I think it is turning out beautiful so far.
Our stake choir director asked if I could arrange an easy version of this song for a youth stake choir. K. Newell Dayley’s SSAATTBB arrangement is beautiful with a capital B, but way too hard for a beginning choir. So, I tried to make an easier arrangement with a very similar feel as Dayley’s. I almost feel bad saying it’s my arrangement because I imitated his so closely. I just hope this helps some choirs with fewer choir members or more inexperienced members.
I decided to add an SATB for choirs who are lucky enough to have more people and experience.
Faith in Every Footstep (SAB)
Faith in Every Footstep (SAB & piano)
Faith in Every Footstep (SATB)
Faith in Every Footstep (SATB & piano)
Faith in Every Footstep (Piano only)
Choir tips: Here’s something I’ve never done before because until recently I knew nothing about singing. Luckily, I worked with an amazing choir director whose notes these are. This pdf is her marked-up notes for the youth choir. It is the notes for the SAB version but you can use them as reference for the SATB version as well.
Our director gave the youth this music when they were first learning their parts, then she gave them the above music afterward. NB=no breath. Commas=breath. And it is easy to hold out the last note. Choir members can breath whenever they want as long as it’s not the same time as the person next to them and they keep their mouth looking like they are still singing. Our choir director always said, “Breath anywhere you want except where there’s a slur!”
I hope this all helps! I know working with this piece helped me learn a lot!
Faith in Every Footstep parts with choir notes
Forgive my voice and I promise it sounds amazing with a full choir!
My ward wanted a women’s group to sing this song so I put an arrangement together! The music is SATB but our ward will either do SA or SAT (yes we have some awesome women than can sing tenor when we need it).
Be careful to keep the last chorus slow. Triplets have a tendency to make you want to play faster but slow it down especially as it gets toward the last 4-5 measures.
Before I arranged Rejoice! The Lord is King, I noticed An Angel from on High could be sung with the same music. When I sang it out loud that way, the music went perfectly with the lyrics to this song. It really motivated me to arrange Rejoice! The Lord is King because An Angel from on High is one that isn’t sung very much and I think if you’ll sing it this way, you’ll want to sing it all the time! It is awesome.
Because Rejoice! The Lord is King only has three verses I chose the 1st, 2nd and 4th verse of An Angel from on High. I think it’s very complete that way. I’m excited to see what other people think of this.
Here’s another SATB song, great for a small or big choir! I love this song because of the energy of the music and lyrics. Enjoy!
I noticed that my arrangement of Behold! A Royal Army was missing the last page! So, it now has all pages, go here to get the music!
Also, I just finished an arrangement of Come Thou Fount. I am working on writing it all out into my music software. Look forward to it!
I showed my arrangement of this song to our ward’s choir director and she asked if I would write a cello part for it. Ironically, the choir director who originally asked me to arrange this piece played the cello. I agreed adding cello was a good idea and now that the part is done I wonder how I ever performed the song without it. The cello adds so much to this piece. Enjoy!
That Easter Morn for SATB, piano and cello
That Easter Morn, SATB and piano
Photo by: SLV’s
I just love bold hymns and this is one I’ve wanted to do a choral arrangement for a long time now. I felt like I chose to write this song at a good time because it was one of those songs I just sat down and wrote it all out within a little over a week. I never had any “stumped” moments, which was so nice!
I wrote a piano solo for this song (below) as well. I recorded myself playing that. It is almost the same as the choir version so you can get a feel for the song.
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (PDF)–for choir pianist and conductor
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (PDF)–for choir members
As I said above, I took my choir version and made a piano solo out of it. Because I wanted it to sound a lot like the choir piece, it isn’t my best piano arrangement. I promise you will love the transitions though, I get addicted to playing them!
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (PDF)–piano solo