About Us

The Smurthwaitesong website offers  free-of-charge music and basic music training materials in both Spanish and English, designed to enhance the worship within the homes and ecclesiastical units of the Church Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Also available is a variety of music for general purposes to be enjoyed by any musician or musical group.

Website Offerings:

A)     Simplified hymns and Primary songs in the same key as the original in order to assist emergent piano players to learn to first play and accompany, and later transition into playing from the regular hymnbook and Primary songbook.

B)     Simplified piano and music-conducting lesson manuals in Spanish with lesson plans, developed for use in homes, wards and stakes in countries where music education is not offered routinely to the school children or general public. The music-training presentations are based on the Church music handbook so that stake and ward music committees may use the instructions on how to organize a piano or music-conducting class in each stake.

C)     Hymn arrangements, solos, duets, and quartets music created for the use of stake or ward choirs in both English and Spanish-speaking countries. Arrangements for Spanish-speaking countries are necessarily simplified much more so than for English-speaking countries with more extensive experience in Church music.

D)     Interestingly, for parents of young children, the website also presents  bilingual quiet booklets in English and Spanish created originally by the very experienced Virginia Cazier, which present the basic principles of the Gospel in simplified language.

E)     In addition to Church music, there is other non-church music for general usage, including a section of music sung by the Pioneers, and a variety of  fun songs and assorted arrangements. (When viewing the arrangements or the original songs, we’ve learned by experience that it’s best to listen or play through them a few times before determining how best to utilize them.)