About The Music This book contains a few of my favourite Lenten and Easter Hymns. I grew up in the church and started playing flute at the age of 12. From the very beginning I was playing all the hymns I loved on flute. Over the years I developed a particular way of playing these hymns and bit by bit I have written these arrangements down. In this book I have tried to cover the whole story of Holy Week: thus a series of readings interspersed with these hymns or simply a program of these hymns for flute alone (as I have done many times) makes for a Peaceful Lenten Musical Meditation. All the music in this book has been performed a number of times in concerts as well as in church services. If you like the music in this book you might also enjoy the following books which are also filled with music I ve arranged for flute alone. Hymn Tunes for Solo Flute Sacred Music for Flute Alone Sacred Christmas Carols for Flute Alone Christmas Carols for Solo Flute The difficulty level is Grade 8 - Diploma Lent and Easter Hymns for Solo Flute (music arranged for solo flute by Colleen Muriel) Index Ah! Holy Jesus (version 1) (melody - Johann Crueger) Ah! Holy Jesus (version 2) (melody - Johann Crueger) Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed (18th century Scottish melody, adapted by Hugh Wilson) All Through The Night and Whispering Hope (version 1) (a medley) (traditional Welsh melody and Alice Hawthorne) All Through The Night and Whispering Hope (version 2) (a medley) (traditional Welsh melody and Alice Hawthorne) Alleluia (melody - W. A. Mozart) Amazing Grace (version 1) (melody New Britian) Amazing Grace (version 2) (melody New Britian) Beneath The Cross of Jesus (melody - St. Christopher) Hallelujah! What A Saviour (melody Philip P. Bliss) His Eye Is On The Sparrow (version 1) (melody - Charles H. Gabriel) His Eye Is On The Sparrow (version 2) (melody - Charles H. Gabriel) Jesus Christ Is Risen Today and Christ The Lord Is Risen Today (melodies by Robert Williams and from Lyrica Davidica) Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross (melody William H. Doane) Just As I Am (melody - William B. Bradbury) Lead Me To Calvary (melody - William J. Kirkpatrick) Low In The Grave He Lay/Christ Arose (melody Robert Lowry) Morning Has Broken (version 1) (Gaelic melody) Morning Has Broken (version 2) (Gaelic melody) Morning Has Broken (version 3) (Gaelic melody) O Sacred Head Now Wounded (version 1) (melody - Hans Leo Hassler) O Sacred Head Now Wounded (version 2) (melody - Hans Leo Hassler) Steal Away (version 1) (traditional spiritual) Steal Away (version 2) (traditional spiritual) Take My Life and Let It Be (version 1) (melody attributed to W. A. Mozart) Take My Life and Let It Be (version 3) (melody attributed to W. A. Mozart) The Lords My Shepherd (version 1) (melody - Jesse S. Irvine) The Lords My Shepherd (version 2) (melody - Jesse S. Irvine) There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood (early American melody) There Is A Green Hill Far Away (melody - C. Stebbins) Were You There (spiritual) What Wondrous Love Is This (melody - William Walkers Southern Harmony, 1835) When I Survey The Wondrous Cross (version 1) (melody Rockingham) When I Survey The Wondrous Cross (version 2) (melody Rockingham) Colleen Muriel (M.A. music, B. Music, FRSM, FTCL, ARCT) is a Canadian composer living in London, England. The first two concerts of Colleen s compositions were given in 1997 and 1998 in Vancouver, Canada. Since then her music has been performed and recorded in Canada, the USA, UK, Western Europe, Bulgaria, Australia, Asia (including Vietnam and Japan), and Brazil. Her music has been featured on a number of radio stations and also been performed at The 15th London New Wind Festival; Sonic Boom (Vancouver Pro Musica); Women Composers Festival of Hartford, USA; Diamond Jubilee Concert (in honour of Queen Elizabeth's 50 year reign - London); and Music Fest Aberystwyth, Wales. She is listed in The European Yearbook of Contemporary Women Composers, The Encyclopedia of Women Composers Worldwide and the Online Encyclopedia of Living Women Composers, Songwriters and Creators of Music In addition her music is included in the Contemporary Showcase Syllabus of the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects (ACNMP); and the Compendium Musicae Flauta (the first international catalogue of flute music by women composers). She has written and/or arranged well over 600 pieces of music for various instruments and ensembles ranging in style from simple folk melodies to the avant-garde. These works include chamber music (instrumental), a chamber opera, orchestra and choir music, string quartets, solo music for piano, flute, singers as well as hymn tunes. She has published (El Flauto Records) a large number of sheet music books and CDs, all containing original compositions and/or arrangements.