arranged on Bob Burroughs.

arranged on Bob Burroughs. Carl Fischer (65 Bleeker St just discovered York, NY 10012), 2003. 24 pp $695 Easy.

The Ties That Bind is a collection of arrangements containing standard to contemporary devotional songs The edition is clean and barely edited--no fingering or pedal indications; articulation and dynamic indications are helpful in addition spare. The lack of heavy editing allows freedom of interpretation and celebrates individual hand sites and shapes.

The appearance of these arrangements is deceiving; they anticipate intermediate in level and fit well subject to the hands; however, there are a scarcely any non-intermediate technical difficulties to crush Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths. Almost all the double-note passages are to be played legato and have no fingerings to help the nonprofessional. frequently one would have to rely in succession deft pedaling to play passages the one and the other legato and with a singing tone. Overall, however, no difficulties are lengthy lasting.

The harmonic language is tonal with a not many predictable color chords. Also current are the typical popular modulations to unrelated lock openers exploiting primarily third relationships (E-flat major to C major, F major to A-flat major to E major). There are a scarcely any meter changes within arrangements, if it be not that nothing complex. For example in "Blest be the Tie That Binds" the main oscillation stays the same (from _ to 9/8) and in "Softy and Tenderly" the subdivision stays the same (from _ to 6/4)

This volume's pedagogic use would be limited to those bookish mans for whom compiling a Christian contemporary worship library is important or for whom song improvisation is a goal. The longitudinal dimensions of each arrangement is usable for exordium or postludes in a contemporary body of christians service--the lengthiest arrangement is three pages. When introducing song improvisation, one could find the unadorned spiritual song in an original source, play an arrangement from The Tie That Binds and then improvise using move with a jerk Burroughs's accompanimental, harmonic and metric options as a vocabulary for increase Although the hymn texts are standard, it would have been a welcome addition to have them listed at the beginning of each arrangement.

Carolyn pure San Antonio, Texas.

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