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Voicing/Instrumentation: SATB
We also have other 14 arrangements of "Dear to the Heart of the Shepherd".
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Comments for this piece:
From Brian Petersen: Connie, this seems to be an excellent arrangement! I hope there will be some time soon when it can be sung by ward choirs and others in the wake of the Covid - 19. I hope you know how much I have loved and respected you and your family my whole life. Some of my most cherished experiences throughout my life started with me taking piano lessons from your darling mother, Joan. Look what she started!
5.0 stars.
More about Connie Stauffer:
I was raised in Thatcher, Utah, a small town west of Tremonton on the north end of the state. Home is where I enjoy being the most. If I leave, it is usually for something very important. To relax or to waste a few minutes, I gravitate to my piano. My favorite thing to do is to turn out the lights when I'm alone and play to my heart's content. This is one way I find ideas for music. Another place where I've gotten more than a few ideas is when I've been exercising, whether it's walking the trails of Alpine, or riding my road bike. I think about my life and the issues of the day while walking, and those moments frequently end with music rattling through my head. I have a husband, five children and fourteen grandchildren - all of whom are the light of my life. I'd rather be with any one of them than just about anything. However, I do enjoy my solitude, which is probably why the hobby of writing music has been so appealing to me. My mother was my music teacher until she said I had outgrown her. I then took from a wonderful lady who helped shape me. Oh how I would love to have a sit-down visit with her. She probably knows me better than anyone, as she was there as I was in the process of becoming. I've been blessed with a husband who is the wind beneath my wings. He's made every possible sacrifice to encourage my music - whether just enjoying playing or writing. Were it not for his support, there is no way I could take it to the level where I can share it. The music on this site is music from my heart over the past 38+ years. It has been my solace through hard times and my joy through the good times. Much of it was "unsolicited" by me; it just came. Some of it has come through assignments or good people trusting me with their lyrics. All of it has been a miracle in my own eyes, as it was not something for which I was trained. My fingers somehow knew how to produce what was rattling through my head and by brute force it has found its way to paper. I hope you will enjoy it and let me know how you are using it. My website has much of what is here plus a lot of songs that do not fall into the "Sacred Music" genre. Feel free to visit it. I love suggestions and comments!
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If you sing/use this song, please contact the composer and say thank you to Connie Stauffer!
Voicing/Instrumentation: SATB
We also have other 14 arrangements of "Dear to the Heart of the Shepherd".
See more from Connie Stauffer.
Visit composer's personal website.
Related song categories are:
Activation/Reactivation
Atonement/Mercy/Grace/Redemption
Charity
Christ
Compassion
Duty
Fellowship
Gathering of Israel
Individual Worth/Self Esteem
Leadership/Shepherd
Love
Missionary Work
Parables
Relief Society/Sisterhood/Women
Savior/Jesus Christ
Service
Activation/Reactivation
Atonement/Mercy/Grace/Redemption
Charity
Christ
Compassion
Duty
Fellowship
Gathering of Israel
Individual Worth/Self Esteem
Leadership/Shepherd
Love
Missionary Work
Parables
Relief Society/Sisterhood/Women
Savior/Jesus Christ
Service
Comments for this piece:
From Brian Petersen: Connie, this seems to be an excellent arrangement! I hope there will be some time soon when it can be sung by ward choirs and others in the wake of the Covid - 19. I hope you know how much I have loved and respected you and your family my whole life. Some of my most cherished experiences throughout my life started with me taking piano lessons from your darling mother, Joan. Look what she started!
5.0 stars.
More about Connie Stauffer:
I was raised in Thatcher, Utah, a small town west of Tremonton on the north end of the state. Home is where I enjoy being the most. If I leave, it is usually for something very important. To relax or to waste a few minutes, I gravitate to my piano. My favorite thing to do is to turn out the lights when I'm alone and play to my heart's content. This is one way I find ideas for music. Another place where I've gotten more than a few ideas is when I've been exercising, whether it's walking the trails of Alpine, or riding my road bike. I think about my life and the issues of the day while walking, and those moments frequently end with music rattling through my head. I have a husband, five children and fourteen grandchildren - all of whom are the light of my life. I'd rather be with any one of them than just about anything. However, I do enjoy my solitude, which is probably why the hobby of writing music has been so appealing to me. My mother was my music teacher until she said I had outgrown her. I then took from a wonderful lady who helped shape me. Oh how I would love to have a sit-down visit with her. She probably knows me better than anyone, as she was there as I was in the process of becoming. I've been blessed with a husband who is the wind beneath my wings. He's made every possible sacrifice to encourage my music - whether just enjoying playing or writing. Were it not for his support, there is no way I could take it to the level where I can share it. The music on this site is music from my heart over the past 38+ years. It has been my solace through hard times and my joy through the good times. Much of it was "unsolicited" by me; it just came. Some of it has come through assignments or good people trusting me with their lyrics. All of it has been a miracle in my own eyes, as it was not something for which I was trained. My fingers somehow knew how to produce what was rattling through my head and by brute force it has found its way to paper. I hope you will enjoy it and let me know how you are using it. My website has much of what is here plus a lot of songs that do not fall into the "Sacred Music" genre. Feel free to visit it. I love suggestions and comments!
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for this piece (opens in a new window).I'll never turn down an opportunity to play with a hymn. Our choir director gave me an assignment. Since I already had been playing with this hymn as an instrumental (see my piano solo with this title), it seemed a natural thing to turn it into a choral number. I now know why it is written in the Hymnal the way it is.
The recording is from Finale, and although not perfect, it is as close as I can get.
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