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Count Your Blessings

Count Your Blessings
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Product ID : HP2727
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  • Author/Composer/Arranger: Edwin Excell, Patricia S. Cota, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Use: Sacred
  • Octaves Used - Select One: 2 - 3 Octaves
  • Level: Level 2
  • Topic: General
  • Use Caution with Techniques and/or Tempo: Caution
This cheerful, fun arrangement opens with snatches of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, then quickly moves to Edwin O. Excell's time-honored hymn tune. Repeated eighth notes give the music drive and bounce. In the second verse, syncopated treble patterns above the bass melody continue the happy mood, just as looking at all God's blessings brings continual joy to our lives. Again borrowing from Tchaikovsky, the piece closes with an accelerando of flashy eighth note chords.