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Johnstone Creations – HYMN – Nearer, my God, to thee. Ideal for the young Cello Orchestra (use in the Cello class etc.) but suitable for all ages

Download Contents or Instructions:

PDF 1 – All individual cello parts and General Score (10 pages in all)

The tempo indication is – A gente moving 6 (almost in 2)

General difficulty of the music – other brief Information:

EASY

“Nearer, My God, to Thee” is a 19th-century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, which retells the story of Jacob’s dream. Genesis 28:11–12 can be translated as follows:
“So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it…”

The hymn is well known, among other uses, as the alleged last song the band on RMS Titanic played before the ship sank.

The arrangement for four cellos (or larger cello ensembles) is re-set into the superb cello key of C Major, and is very comfortable for cellists in their first years of experience though will be effective for all; the register only proceeds to fourth position and the octave ‘A’ note (which may be played as a harmonic though usually not Johnstone’s first option choice!), and extensions are kept to a minimum (unless one experiments with fluid position change). David Johnstone has utilized two verses and a half, which allows ALL the four voices to share the discreet warm melody line – the music rises up in an arch before resting gently at the end. The signs   ⌐   to   ¬  show where each part has the melodic importance; however this signalled part should never have to force the sound out – rather the other lines must be contained enough to be able to hear this!

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Welcome to Johnstone-Music! A big Anglo-Spanish web for MUSICIANS and especially CELLISTS – original music scores for orchestral instruments and keyboard. Plus articles, audios, videos, resources, catalogues, news etc. Official web of the professional cellist David Johnstone, principal cello Navarre Symphony Orchestra (Spain), chamber musician and soloist in many premieres. Hundreds of cello arrangements in the web for a symbolic charge per download or for free.

The following have taken his work onboard, sometimes with special collaborations as composer-arranger-performer: the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, Orchestre Nouvelle Generation de Montreal, the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon), Orchestra da Camera del Locarnese (Suiza), The Zagreb Soloists, the Saint Petersburg Musical Theatre “Zazerkalye” Chamber Orchestra, the Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum (Poland), Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra (New Zealand), Camerata Cambrensis (Basque country), Ensemble Metamorphosis of Belgrade (Serbia), with Ara Malikian (Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra – Madrid), and a long etc.. Currently, many courses, conservatoires and music schools, university String departments etc. use his repertoire; there are dozens of his arrangements on ‘You Tube’ …

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