Title: Teach Me Thy Ways

Composer/Arranger/Text
Timothy Shepard

Psalm 25:4,5

Instrumentation
SATB, Piano

Liturgical Use
General

Scores Available
Choral score

Description
If you like triadic harmony, you will love "Teach Me Thy Ways". There are no harmonic surprises in this anthem. When I showed this anthem to Don Hinshaw, he encouraged me to add some rhythmic variation to the accompaniment. So I did. The choral writing is mostly homophonic, with a little bit of "branching out" in the middle section. The piece works better with piano than with organ and the choir does have its moment of a capella glory. This is a fairly effective piece and easy to boot. Watch the pronunciation of all those eeee's, ie Teach, me etc..