Description
Dark Night of the Soul – PDF Songbook $16. This is the companion songbook for the album. This 107 page songbook includes the sheet music for every song on the album you see listed on this page. When purchased, you will be emailed a link where you can download the songbook. You will also receive this link on the thank you page after you have placed your order.
Dark Night of the Soul – Printed Songbook $26. This is the companion songbook for the album. This 107 page songbook includes the sheet music for every song on the album. The songbook has a spiral bound spine, allowing the book to lay flat and makes page turning easy! This item ships within 24-48 hours of purchase. All shipping is free anywhere in the US! Shipping charges only apply to international orders.
Mainly Piano
Dark Night of the Soul is the companion sheet music book to Philip Wesley’s best-selling CD by the same name. The recording was named as one of the “50 Greatest New Age Albums of All Time” by Reviews New Age in Spain, reached #1 on Amazon and iTunes in the New Age category, and made it to #12 on the Billboard charts. The music is an allegory for a journey through darkness and coming into the light and a new day. Obviously very emotional in nature, the sheet music book is a lot of fun to play, a great vehicle for letting off steam, and is an excellent teaching tool for getting piano students to play with expression. Some of the pieces are quite long (see below), but none of them are very difficult. Most of the timing is straight-forward and none of the key signatures are complex. Pianists at an upper-intermediate and early-advanced playing level should be able to master these pieces without much difficulty. More advanced pianists should be able to just sit down and play most of these pieces, making for a very enjoyable hour or so of playing pleasure.
The front and back covers are full color reproductions of the CD cover artwork. The notation is clear, clean and easy to read and the music is printed on a medium-weight paper stock that should last through many years of play. The book is spiral-bound – always a big plus for staying open on the piano and making the book more durable. Pedaling suggestions, metronome settings, expression and dynamics are all included. There is also a short biography, discography, and photo of Philip on the last page. All twelve piano solos from the recording are included. Philip Wesley’s sheet music books and individual song downloads are currently available exclusively from PhilipWesley.com. I thoroughly enjoyed playing through this book and highly recommend it.
The song titles, the keys they are in, and the number of pages are:
Tears of the East – Key of A minor (0 sharps or flats) – 8 pages
Racing Against the Sunset – Key of B minor (2 sharps)/ C minor (3 flats) – 9 pages
The Approaching Night – Key of E minor (1 sharp) – 7 pages
Darkness Falls – Key of D minor (1 flat) – 9 pages
Dark Night of the Soul – Key of E minor (1 sharp) – 9 pages
Soul’s Lament – Key of F minor (4 flats) – 12 pages
Far and Away – Key of G minor (2 flats) – 15 pages
Lamentations of the Heart – Key of E minor (1 sharp) – 7 pages
Light and Shadow – Key of Ab major / F minor (4 flats) – 7 pages
Into the Light – Key of E (4 sharps) – 10 pages
New Day – Key of A (3 sharps) – 7 pages
Two Souls – Key of C (0 sharps or flats) – 5 pages
Reviewed by Mainly Piano
Lew Roberts
My favorites: Tears of the East, Dark Night of the Soul, Lamentations of the Heart, and New Day. All twelve songs are fine. I have played for many years now (started at age 8 now 67). My skill level seemed adequate enough to sight read and play all songs with relative ease. Refinements with practice will come. My family really enjoys the New Age piano music. Probably a welcome change from the Classical pieces I play.
Lila Cooper
One of my favorite piano books of all time. Dark night really speaks to me, emotionally. Thank you for making this available. Playing these songs on the piano is my favorite thing to do when I’m having a hard day.