Amazing Grace
arranged by John Steinmetz
Composer: Traditional
Publisher: CAMco
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(PDF products will be delivered via email within one business day)This edition consists of two duet scores.
From the composer:
"Égide Duo (Joshua Gardner and Stefanie Gardner) commissioned this arrangement to play at two family memorial gatherings in living rooms. I thought of the music as a moment for reflection. It doesn’t get very dramatic, and it’s not for showing off—as a performer or as a composer.
After arranging the song, I looked up its history. John Newton wrote the words of “Amazing Grace” for a sermon on New Year’s Day, 1773. He had left the seafaring slave trade around 1755, later becoming an abolitionist and a minister in the Church of England. The words became especially popular in the U.S., sung to more than twenty different tunes. In 1835, William Walker set the words to a hymn with multiple names; he published it as “New Britain.” In an 1877 hymn collection, those words appeared with that music as “Amazing Grace,” and that is the version that has become so widely familiar and so often recorded, continuing to evolve as it moves through singers’ voices and hearts."
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Pages: 6
Pages (score):
Publisher Code: C2118
UPC: 9790800216275
ISBN:
ISMN: Book: 9790800216275; PDF: 9790800216282
Length: cm
Width: cm
Thickness: cm
Weight: 246 g
