In one year’s time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s first vision. Daniel Carter’s miniature cantata, a setting of “Joseph Smith’s First Prayer,” is a perfect addition to any sacrament meeting. It is short, relatively easy to work up, and contains solos for the feel of a full-fledged cantata. Each
2018 was a good year for Melkim Publishing. I thought I’d share some stats like I did for 2017 a year ago. Here are the top four sellers from 2018: It Is Well with My Soul 30% We Three Kings 22% He Who Built the Starry Skies 21% Ding Dong! Merrily on High 13% If you include the free downloads
Daniel Carter’s recently revamped setting of “Silent Night” for high voice, piano, and flute marks his third Christmas piece to appear here at Melkim Publishing. An earlier version of this appeared in the no-longer available collection “Hymn Duets” published in 2001. A month ago, when Dan asked me what I wanted to publish for our last piece of the year, this one
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” a piano solo, is the second of Daniel Carter’s pieces of music to appear here at Melkim Publishing. It first appeared 2008 in Daniel’s collection “Hymns for Keyboard Performers II,” which is no longer available, but he has decided to resurrect this piece, and I didn’t hesitate to begin preparing it for publication. It’s a good
I am happy to announce that Daniel Carter has agreed to let Melkim Publishing a few of his pieces — some currently out of print, and some new pieces on the way. Daniel is mostly known for his hymn “As Now We Take the Sacrament” (LDS, #169) and his Christmas anthem “Shine for Me Again: Star of Bethlehem.” He also
As of today, free previews are fully available for all choral selections (except for pieces that are already free). This will allow choir directors to preview the choral parts before making a final decision to buy the actual product. Watermarks help to remind that these free copies are not to be used for performances. To obtain a free preview, you can look for
Are you ready for an epic story–my personal struggles, inspirations, and achievements as I composed and had performed this arrangement of “It Is Well with My Soul”? It’s a long story, but I feel it needs to be told. If you don’t have time to read it now, I suggest finding some time over the next week to come back
Starting now, Melkim Publishing will start providing free previews by request on all of our choral selections. These previews will allow you to peruse the product before buying. Each preview will also contain a watermark to ensure the copies aren’t used for performances. Why are we doing this? Because the customers have spoken and they want to be able to
For some reason to be revealed in the next few months, I wanted to do an arrangement of “Come, Come, Ye Saints” (buy). Since there are so many arrangements available, I knew it had to be a piece good enough to warrant its creation. It had to capture the words of the hymn and match the appropriate moods. As such,
As I mentioned earlier, I’m taking the current time to do some minor restructuring of some of the behind-the-scene aspects of Melkim Publishing. Part of this is learning how to automate. In particular, I’ve learned how to work with MySQL to collect all kinds of stats, which will help me to handle accounting concerns much more quickly and leave more
