Mark Hayes - Contemporary Worship Classics: 10 Richly-Arranged Piano Solos by Mark Hayes

10 RICHLY ARRANGED PIANO SOLOS

By Mark Hayes

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MARK HAYES is an award-winning concert pianist, composer, arranger and conductor of international renown. His personal catalog totals over 1,500 published works of all kinds. Mark received a Bachelor of Music degree (summa cum laude) in Piano Performance from Baylor University in 1975. He has conducted the SWACDA & MCDA Community & Church Honor Choir and has served as a frequent guest conductor at Lincoln Center, the National Cathedral and Carnegie Hall, featuring works such as his Te Deum, Magnificat, Gloria and International Carol Suites .

In 2010, Baylor University Center for Christian Music Studies honored Mark with the Award for Exemplary Leadership in Christian Music. He conducted the world premiere of his Requiem at Lincoln Center in May 2013. In October 2014, Hayes conducted his Requiem at St. Ignatius Basilica in Rome, Italy as part of The Festival Pro Musica E Arte Sacra, sponsored by the Vatican. He was commissioned by St. Paul's Co-educational College in Hong Kong to write a work for treble voices, mixed voices and orchestra for their 100th anniversary and also conducted the world premiere in Hong Kong (December 2015).

Hayes wrote the musical score for Civil War Voices , which won six awards at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York City (July 2010). He orchestrated the hit musical Madame Buttermilk by Ross Carter and arranged the music for We'll Meet Again , a new musical by Jim Harris.

Mark's passion is writing for the piano. He has over 100 piano books in print, spanning a variety of styles such as Gospel, Classical, Jazz and Broadway. In addition to his involvement in the sacred and secular choral music fields, Hayes is an accomplished orchestrator and record producer. Whether concertizing on the other side of the globe or composing at his home in Kansas City, Missouri, Mark is blessed to live out his mission "to create beautiful music for the world."

The contemporary worship scene has a rich canon of songs from which to choose that includes songs from the 1970s to the current day. The talented keyboard editorial team at Hal Leonard chose ten of the most widely sung worship songs of the last decade and invited me to arrange them in my unique style. If you have played my piano solos, you know that I enjoy finding rich chord substitutions and interesting harmonic progressions. My improvisatory style draws from the light jazz tradition as well as contemporary pop music.

The worship songs in this collection were written in the simple, straightforward harmonic language that is especially useful for songwriters who are primarily guitarists. While being mindful that the power of these songs is often in their simplicity, I offer a rich, new way of expressing them in worship. I have re-imagined some of the chord progressions, introduced lush harmonies in places, and added contemporary embellishments and interludes.

You'll notice there are chord labels throughout this book. I find that to be a helpful learning tool. When I was first exposed to jazz harmonies, I wondered how in the world I could replicate them when I improvised. Seeing the chord label and the notes spelled out on the page was the first step in understanding them and being able to use them in my improvisation and arranging. Whether you play by ear or only read music, I hope this additional information will help you expand your harmonic vocabulary and improvisatory skills.

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