Sleeper's Awake
Twenty Traditional Hymns, Sixty Arrangements by Kenneth Michael Davidson
Hymns, including Greek and Latin, the psalter or book of psalms, ancient chant, early canticles, spirituals, and contemporary gospel, have created a hymnody, which over many centuries has become the most profound vehicle for praise and worship in the Christian Church. It has once been said that the Church "Has come singing down through the ages". Through this beautiful medium of song, worshipers over many generations have privately and collectively aspired to give praise and proclaim their faith while expressing the higher emotion of the soul.
The Sleeper's Awake series contains twenty popular hymns carefully and creatively arranged in three versions for the classical guitar. Each hymn is arranged at two solo technical levels along with twenty duet arrangements for voice and guitar. These sixty arrangements serve as an excellent resource for both study and performance. Although the harmonic structure of these pieces respects the four-part vocal writing found in traditional hymnody, guitarists will enjoy some of the contemporary and innovative harmonic ideas used. Left hand fingering is provided.
Brief Biography
Kenneth Michael Davidson first began playing publicly as a classical guitarist in the mid 1960s at Canadian Martyrs Parish
Church in Ottawa. Following classical guitar studies with Stephen Fentock of McGill University, Kenneth continued his studies
at Dalhousie University under Carol van Feggelen. For more than a decade Kenneth performed with a small chamber group at
Saint John Vianney Church in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, has written and performed for CBC and the NFB, and performed at
the National Arts Centre and with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.
Currently Kenneth is a regular speaker and clinician for the Nova Scotia Music Educators Association, guitar curriculum writer
for the Nova Scotia Department of Education, and a writer and teacher for the Nova Scotia Community College,and has decades
of music teaching experience in the public schools in three provinces, two universities and two conservatories. Kenneth is a
fifty-year member of the Canadian Federation of Musicians, a member of the Writer'sFederation of Nova Scotia and the Writer's
Council for Nova Scotia. And as a diversified artist and writer Kenneth, along with four books of hymn arrangements, has just
released the first in a series of children's books called The Elf Child,The Blue Dark, published by FriesenPress, BC.
Kenneth Michael Davidson first began playing publicly as a classical guitarist in the mid 1960s at Canadian Martyrs Parish
Church in Ottawa. Following classical guitar studies with Stephen Fentock of McGill University, Kenneth continued his studies
at Dalhousie University under Carol van Feggelen. For more than a decade Kenneth performed with a small chamber group at
Saint John Vianney Church in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, has written and performed for CBC and the NFB, and performed at
the National Arts Centre and with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.
Currently Kenneth is a regular speaker and clinician for the Nova Scotia Music Educators Association, guitar curriculum writer
for the Nova Scotia Department of Education, and a writer and teacher for the Nova Scotia Community College,and has decades
of music teaching experience in the public schools in three provinces, two universities and two conservatories. Kenneth is a
fifty-year member of the Canadian Federation of Musicians, a member of the Writer'sFederation of Nova Scotia and the Writer's
Council for Nova Scotia. And as a diversified artist and writer Kenneth, along with four books of hymn arrangements, has just
released the first in a series of children's books called The Elf Child,The Blue Dark, published by FriesenPress, BC.
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Cover Design for Sleeper's Awake, Donna Moore, Illustrator for The Elf Child, The Blue Dark.
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