Customer Reviews

Sunday Solos for Piano: Preludes, Offertories and Postludes (Piano Solo Songbook)

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This is a great option for any person who needs a last minute piece to place in church on a Sunday morning. The arrangements have their challenges, but the pieces are written to sound absolutely beautiful. It even gives you suggestions as to when during the service a piece would be most appropriate. I have used one of these songs already and cannot wait to use more!

I am always looking for new books of hymn and worship song arrangements to use as offeratories at our church. This book was a pleasant surprise: it has a nice variety of both worship songs and hymns, nice harmonies, not too difficult, but not too simple. I have used one almost every week since I got the book. The book is a good value for the money because of the number of pieces and the excellent selection offered.

I got this book on a Tuesday and used 10 pieces from it for a Saturday funeral. They all fit and were easy to listen to.

WONDERFUL BOOK!....good blended selection of songs and very playable. I find that most of the songs work for all parts of a church service, even though there are suggestions for prelude, offertory and postlude. I actually purchased the second book (More Sunday Solos for Piano) first, so I was very excited to find the first. Hopefully there will be a third? It's hard to find good collections of church music for piano that combine old tradional (with some new harmonies and rhythms) and new contemporary. I highly recommend this book (and the second, "More Sunday Solos for Piano").

I purchased this book for my Sunday worship playing. Each piece seems very well composed. I love calm and soft feeling of works. Easy to play and categorized specific situation ... I think this book is very useful for Sunday worship.

I have not yet found a single arrangement in this book that I dislike. All the pieces that are included may be used nearly any time in the church year. However, they do require a pianist who not any can keep a steady beat, but also one that can add emotion to a piece, otherwise many of the pieces simply sound stupid in some places. This a great resource for the church pianist, in that the book might is pretty much ten services in one book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good book to play around with (as I was when I bought it), but esspeically to the church pianist who is looking for more pieces to play on Sunday.

I found this book to be very simple, repetitive, and a tad boring. I am an intermediate pianist, but this book to me feels as if the melodies have been severely over simplified. The average intermediate pianist will tire of it quickly. There are other books on the market that you will get more use from.

Great songs that are fun to play! Familiar ones, too! Lots of arrangements so that there is a different one for every week!

I am an organist/pianist and I'm always looking for new pieces to play on Sunday morning. To be honost, I was not impressed with this book at all. It has strange harmonies and arrangements to classic, beautiful hymns. Very contemporary, of which I am not a fan. These are not difficult pieces to play, just not very pretty.

This book has many songs, but they are very simple and don't really cut it. Most of the pieces are also very short, and so I really can't play these for an offertory at our church. I also am not a big fan of the odd syncopation, as well as the tunes that the author attempts. There are lots of notes that seem to clash with one another, and I just don't like the style. It may be a very good book, but I just am not a big fan of it.