Christmas, Part 3
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 twelve well-known hymns, arranged in gradated order. The hymn tunes are GARTAN (Love Came Down on Christmas), ORIENTIS PARTIBUS (Jesus, Our Brother, Kind and Good), UNE JEUNE PUCELLE/HURON CAROL ('Twas in the Moon of Wintertime), WARUM SOLLT ICH (All My Heart This Night Rejoices), STILL, STILL, STILL, W ZLOBIE LEZY (Infant Holy, Infant Lowly), WINCHESTER OLD (While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night), TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM (Good King Wenceslas/Gentle Mary Laid Her Child), ERMUNTRE DICH (Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light), PERSONENT HODIE (On This Day Earth Shall Ring), Bring a Torch, Go, Tell It on the Mountain, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Easy to medium.