I call One Day an “eternity hymn”. It looks across all of time and proclaims the Lord’s great works, and with each chorus brings it all back to how it matters to my hope in Christ. One day when Heaven Was filled with His praises / One day when sin was As black as could …
Category: Handbells
Jan 03
O Worship the King!
There are many hymns whose words are sung with multiple hymn tunes (just take a look at your metrical index!). Some time ago we put out an arrangement of the LYONS hymn tune which is commonly used for O Worship the King… and today we’ve added an eight-bell score for HANOVER, one of the other …
O Worship the King (HANOVER) – Eight handbells
There are a number of times a text is fitted to more than one hymn tune. This arrangement is the alternate tune for LYONS … or if you like, the tune for which LYONS is an alternate. O worship the King all-glorious above, O gratefully sing His power and his love: Our shield and defender, …
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (ST. DENIO) – Eight handbells
Hymns have long been a means of trying to understand the unfathomable nature and Person of God. Immortal, Invisible God Only Wise, to the tune ST. DENIO, speaks of how God is beyond our comprehension who reaches to us from His throne. Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most …
Jan 01
Welcome to 2016!
Happy New Year! We hope your 2016 will be wonderful! We’ll be back in the swing of things on January 6th (because that’s how far the Twelve Days of Christmas extend), and then we’ll be working on putting out new music for eight and twelve bells (maybe sixteen bells, too… but we have to write …
Dec 12
Deal with the Christmas Rush
It’s getting into the middle of December, and that means the Christmas Rush (whatever that happens to mean to you) is in full surge. For most of us musicians, it probably means surviving the last couple of rehearsals and performances. But… sometimes that very, very late request comes in. Maybe someone’s had their musicians cancel …
Dec 05
Advent’s in Full Swing!
This coming Sunday will be “Advent 2” (imaginative, yes? 😀 ). It’s the second of the four Sundays before Christmas. It’s a season of preparation for the coming of the Christ Child, and many churches put a lot of effort into making it something to remember. If you participate in the music ministry at your …
Nov 26
We Gather Together
It’s Thanksgiving Day, possibly one of the highest-caloric-content dates on the American calendar. There’ll be turkey, potatoes/rice, candied yams, stuffing, cranberry sauce, ham, mulled cider, and pies, pies, and pies for many of us today (perhaps to carbo-fat-protein-load for Black Friday?). Anyway, we’ve just added our eight-bell arrangement of We Gather Together (hymn tune KREMSER) …
We Gather Together/We Praise Thee, O God Our Redeemer (KREMSER) – Eight handbells
The hymn We Praise Thee, O God Our Redeemer, also sung as We Gather Together, was adapted from a sixteenth-century Dutch folk song, and endures in our hymnody as a glorious way for us to turn our hearts to God. We praise you, O God, our Redeemer, Creator; in grateful devotion our tribute we bring; …
Nov 25
We Three Kings
We had such a huge response to our freebie offer last week that we’ve decided to offer one more free download this season. It’s our recently-revised “standard” eight-bell arrangement of We Three Kings. If you already have it (and get the new version, of course), you’ll notice that the changes are all in the first …
