16 Easy to Play Easter Hymns for Piano is a collection of your favourite Easter Hymns arranged simply for elementary pianists.

We all know that tricky period when beginner pianists struggle to coordinate both hands. I have always found that playing simple melodic hymns is a big motivation to students. Now, with this collection of Easter hymns, students can join in with Easter music-making and develop those two-handed skills at the same time.

These 16 hymns are arranged with the melody in the right hand, a harmony line in the left and just a few easily fingered chords here and there. There are suggested fingerings throughout.

The hymns are in alphabetical order and are as follows?

· All Creatures of Our God and King, (Lasst Uns Erfreuen)

· All Hail the Power of Jesus Name, (Coronation)

· Before the Throne of God Above, (Before the Throne)

· Blessed Assurance, (Blessed Assurance)

· Christ the Lord is Risen Today, (Easter Hymn)

· Crown Him with Many Crowns, (Diademata)

· The Day of Resurrection, (Ellacombe)

· Just as I Am, (Woodworth)

· I Know that My Redeemer Lives, (Bradford)

· It is Well with My Soul, (Ville du Havre)

· A Mighty Fortress is Our God, (Ein Feste Burg)

· Nothing But the Blood of Jesus, (What Can Wash Away My Sin)

· There is a Green Hill Far Away, (The Green Hill)

· Thine Be the Glory, (Judas Maccabeus)

· Were You There? (Were You There?)

· When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, (Hamburg)

This arrangement is not in the original key to make it easier to play. A version in the original key is available here: S0.373007.



The Czech composer Antonín Dvoand#345;ák became the director of theNational Conservatory of Music in New York City in 1892 (a post he helduntil 1895). Whilst in North America, he became fascinated by Native Americanmusic and the African-American spirituals that he heard. After a commission in1893 from the New York Philharmonic, he wrote the Symphony No. 9 in E minor,"From the New World", also known as the ?New World? Symphony ? not onlyhis most famous symphony but one of the most popular symphonies of all time.



The second movement (Largo) features the famous cor anglaissolo, arranged here for solo piano. It was famously used in a British advert for the bread-brandHovis and was adapted into the spiritual-like song ?Goin? Home? by one ofDvoand#345;ák's pupils in 1922.



Dvoand#345;ák explained the Native-American influences in the symphonyin an article published by the New York Herald: ?I have not actually used anyof the [Native American] melodies. I have simply written original themesembodying the peculiarities of the Indian music, and, using these themes assubjects, have developed them with all the resources of modern rhythms,counterpoint, and orchestral colour.?



A recording of the ?New World? Symphony was taken along on theApollo 11 mission by Neil Armstrong in 1969.