Breathe: Expressions of Praise for Solo Piano (Book) |  | Author: Tom Howard
Publisher: Word Music
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 836316
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 64
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 8.6 x 0.3
ISBN: 1423410882
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9781423410881
ASIN: 1423410882
Publication Date: December 1, 2005
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Product Description
12 songs for piano solo matching the Vineyard Music CD, which also features Tom Howard's playing. Includes: Breathe * Change My Heart, Oh God * Draw Me Close * Hungry * In the Secret * More Love, More Power * Take My Life * and more.
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Calvary, Vineyard, Where are the CDs? January 1, 2007
Gord Wilson (Bellingham, WA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the accompanying piano book to a Tom Howard CD that Amazon seems not to carry and I was lucky to find, odd as it sounds, in a bookstore in Hawaii run by nuns. It was tucked in next to Switchfoot, and all I can say is that the Sisters have some very good taste in music. It's been decades since the Vineyard fellowship began in Larry Norman's living room, and nearly that long since I heard Tom Howard open for Larry Norman. A classically trained graduate of the Juliard School, Tom Howard blew me away with his unadorned and accomplished piano playing and I have been a fan ever since.
I may prefer his jazz work on Beyond the Barriers and the stylish renditions of Solo Piano, both long out of print and being sold used for ridiculous amounts. But if the music publishers have let those classics slip out of print, I thought for sure this CD, featuring as it does the most popular rock praise songs of the day, would surely be climbing the best-sellers chart. The motto of Vineyard Music is "From the Church, For the Church," so you'd think they'd applaud this true talent following his calling and using his gifts with the tiny favor of reissuing his CDs (I also cordially invite Calvary Chapel, the other everywhere fellowship, to reissue his earlier albums).
So before it's gone, you'd probably like to get this piano book of what might be called the Howard method, enabling pianists, from beginner to virtuoso, to play these songs. On the CD, Howard punctuates these nine numbers with three original interludes that sound like movie music, suggesting that he normally plays them all together as a medly, seguing in and out of the various songs, and they are only divided into twelve songs on the CD in order to separate the tracks. This is something like what Jeff Johnson, my other favorite instrumental musician (although both artists also have vocal albums) does with his Selah contemplative music.
In the '60s a renewal movement known as Vatican II swept through the Catholic Church, leaving in its wake, among other things, what was generally known as the folk mass. That led to some great folk praise songs (and some quite bad ones). But it's the same with any age. Apart from the few, well-known classics, hymn books are chock full of pieces best forgotten or, as C.S. Lewis dubbed them, "hymns I have always hated". Larry Norman once said that today's musicians may be writing tomorrow's hymns. The current contemporary praise movement is certainly churning out its share of forgettable numbers (you can't really make praise a business, can you?), but Tom Howard, with canny sense, has ferreted out the keepers. It's as if a great musician not only came to the door offering lessons, but also gave away his own personal arrangements. If this is the prelude to Vatican III, I can hardly wait.
Need some new pre-service music? March 9, 2006
Elisa Grebnrets (Wisconsin, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book makes a great addition to any church accompanist's library. The piano solos include 'More Love, More Power,' and 'Change My Heart, Oh God.'
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