Advent
By: Robin Dinda
A significant and versatile composer of organ and choral music. Studied at Davidson College, The University of Cincinnati, and The University of Michigan, FAGO. Coordinator of Music at First Parish (Unitarian Universalist) in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and Associate Professor of Humanities at Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA.
A collection of easy chorale preludes on fifteen well-known Advent hymns, arranged in gradated order. The hymn tunes are STUTTGART (Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus), CONSOLATION/MORNING SONG (The King Shall Come), VENI, EMMANUEL (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel), ABERYSTWYTH (Watchman, Tell Us of the Night), CONDITE ALMA SIDERUM (Creator of the Stars of Night), TRURO (Lift Up Your Heads), RICHMOND/CHESTERFIELD (Hark! The Glad Sound!), FRANCONIA (The Advent of Our God), AVE, AVE (Ave, Ave, the Angel Sang), WINCHESTER NEW (On Jordan's Banks the Baptist's Cry), NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND (Savior of the Nations, Come), PSALM 42 (Comfort, Comfort Ye My People), HELMSLEY (Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending), and WACHET AUF (Wake, Awake). Easy to Medium.