Ideal for semi-professional church musicians and organists.Collection of easy to moderately difficult Organ arrangements.Also playable on smaller instruments.Suitable for teaching purposes.The Easy Handel Organ Album presents a wide overview of the composer’s sacred and secular works forming an ideal basis for lessons and for introducing Baroque Organ music.This selection comprises easy to moderately difficult Handel pieces for semi-professional church musicians and organists. All the pieces are also suitable for performance on smaller instruments.Contents:From Music for the Royal Fireworks:Grave Allegro two minuets / From the Water Music: Air Alla Hornpipe Minuet Coro / From Berenice: Minuet / From Serse: Largo / Further movements from Judas Maccabaeus and Messiah / Movements from Organ Concerto Op.4 No.6 (arranged for solo organ by John Walsh) / From Six Fugues or Voluntaries: Fuga VI.

The Oxford Book of Organ Music by Women Composers presents a comprehensive survey of historical organ pieces by women composers alongside six newly commissioned works. The music is stylistically varied and encompasses secular and sacred repertoire from a range of periods. In addition to original organ repertoire, the collection also contains several organ transcriptions in new arrangements for the instrument. ? 42 pieces for manuals and pedals, in a variety of musical forms, suitable for use at church services or as recital repertoire ? Original music for the instrument, spanning the sixteenth century to the present day, including compositions by Amy Beach, Clementine de Bourges, Nadia Boulanger, Jeanne Demessieux, Cecilia McDowall, Clara Schumann, and Ethyl Smyth, plus commissions from Kristina Arakelyan, Miriam Carpinetti, Ghislaine Reece-Trapp, Isabelle Ryder, Amy Summers, and Rebecca Groom te Velde ? Standalone miniatures, movements from organ sonatas and symphonies, transcriptions of piano, harpsichord, and flute pieces, and an orchestral opera overture ? A variety of difficulty levels, from ABRSM Grades 2-3 through to Diploma standard, with a graded index provided

Cantata for Easter Sunday-Christ lag in Todes Banden (Christ lay by death enshrouded / Christ lay in grim death's prison ) BWV 4Cantata for Easter Sunday - Urtext of the New Bach Edition. - Original German text with English singing translation. - Idiomatic and easy-to-play piano reduction. - Performance material (BA10004) vocal score (BA10004-90) & study score (TP1004) available for sale These editions of Bach Cantatas offer the authoritative text of the New Bach Edition meeting Bärenreiter Urtext standards. No group of works in Johann Sebastian Bach’s output is as wide-ranging as the cantatas. This is hardly surprising considering that forover five years Bach was required to compose a work or at least re-work an existing one for every Sunday and festival of the church year as well as for numerous secular occasions such as council inaugurations school and university celebrations and royal birthdays. Unfortunately not all cantatas have survived. However over 200 sacred and secular works exist and form a corpus of works suitable for all possible occasions. This rich musical heritage is still as relevant today as it was then.

Cantata No.211: Schweigt Stille Plaudert Nicht (Be quiet chatter not) BWV 211.The Coffee Cantata (BA 10211) and the Peasant Cantata (BA 10212) both on librettos by Picander are among the best-known and most frequently performed of Bach?s secular cantatas.Written in or around 1733 the Coffee Cantata deals humorously with the importance of the newly fashionable beverage. This is demonstrated in the Soprano aria ?Ah how sweet the coffee tastes lovelier than a thousand kisses milder than Muscatel?.Both cantatas reveal Bach?s mastery in their unusual subject-matter formal design and musicalworkmanship. Now they appear in separate editions based on the ?New Bach Edition? with straightforward and easy-to-play Piano reductions by Andreas Köhs.- Urtext of the ?New Bach Edition?.- Straightforward and easy-to-play Piano reduction.- Vocal score (BA10211-90) performance material (BA10211) and study score (TP1211) available for sale.

Listening CD-This collection contains something for everyone...a bluesy spiritual gentle lullabies concert pieces lush settings of old favorites and even a medley of secular titles. Mark Hayes's style is unlike any other. Given to mood and style shifts one moment the carol is traditional the next it's in the style of Mozart and the next it's in the style of Chopin. Some easy some not so easy but all are exciting. Contents include: We Three Kings: I Wonder as I Wander: Rise Up Shepherds and Follow: O Little Town of Bethlehem: Masters in this Hall: Manger Medley and four more. Highly recommended!

This collection contains something for everyone ... a bluesy spiritual gentle lullabies concert pieces lush settings of old favorites and even a medley of secular titles. Mark Hayes' style is unlike any other. Given to mood andstyle shifts one moment the carol is traditional the next it's in the style of Mozart and the next it's in the style of Chopin. Some easy some not so easy but all are exciting. Songs include: We Three Kings ? I Wonder asI Wander ? Rise Up Shepherd and Follow ? O Little Town of Bethlehem ? Masters in this Hall ? Manger Medley ? and four more. Highly recommended!

Coffee Cantata-Cantata No.211: Schweigt stille plaudert nicht (Be quiet chatter not) BWV 211.The Coffee Cantata (BA 10211) and the Peasant Cantata (BA 10212) both on librettos by Picander are among the best-known and most frequently performed of Bach’s secular cantatas.Written in or around 1733 the Coffee Cantata deals humorously with the importance of the newly fashionable beverage. This is demonstrated in the soprano aria “Ah how sweet the coffee tastes lovelier than a thousand kisses milder than Muscatel”.Both cantatas reveal Bach’s mastery in their unusual subject-matter formal design andmusical workmanship. Now they appear in separate editions based on the “New Bach Edition” with straightforward and easy-to-play piano reductions by Andreas Köhs.- Urtext of the “New Bach Edition”.- Straightforward and easy-to-play piano reduction.- Vocal score (BA10211-90) performance material (BA10211) and study score (TP1211) available for sale

This secular work has a wonderful gospel flavored harmonic treatment and a powerful message of unity and peace. With easy call and response style harmonies and a final building chorus of “over and over and over andover ” your singers will add their voices to the imagining of the world as “a new symphony.” Duration: ca. 3:15.

35 Favorite Christmas Songs and Carols In Easy Arrangements-CD-Rom including MP3 Piano accompaniments and lyric sheets in PDF format.It's no wonder that Play a Song of Christmas has been everyone's favourite holiday collection for generations. Part-books for each instrument provide the melody line plus 'Part B C or D ' so anyone can play the tune and any combination of instruments can play in 2- 3- or 4-part harmony. This collection of 35 favourite sacred and secular Christmas songs is wonderfully practical for school church parties and professional gigs. **Please note: The CD included with this title can only be played through an MP3 compatible program.**

35 Favorite Christmas Songs and Carols In Easy Arrangements-It's no wonder that Play a Song of Christmas has been everyone's favourite holiday collection for generations. Part-books for each instrument provide the melody line plus 'Part B C or D ' so anyone can play the tune and any combination of instruments can play in 2- 3- or 4-part harmony. This collection of 35 favourite sacred and secular Christmas songs is wonderfully practical for school church parties and professional gigs.

35 Favorite Christmas Songs and Carols In Easy Arrangements-It's no wonder that Play a Song of Christmas has been everyone's favourite holiday collection for generations. Part-books for each instrument provide the melody line plus 'Part B C or D ' so anyone can play the tune and any combination of instruments can play in 2- 3- or 4-part harmony. This collection of 35 favourite sacred and secular Christmas songs is wonderfully practical for school church parties and professional gigs.

These words of this carol, full of colours and rich in symbolism, are from the Cherry Tree Carol , a popular folk carol telling a legend which goes back at least as far as the Coventry Mystery Plays. The piece received its first two performances on the same day, by Robinson College Choir and Clare College Choir, in Cambridge, and was later recorded by Robinson College Choir, conducted by Timothy Brown. The main tune should have an easy-going lilt, which turns into light, sprightly dancing for the refrain. An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, the Novello New Choral Series offers pieces for all types of choirs, including sacred and secular works from simple, four-part settings to more expansive, yet accessible, repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. Jeremy Thurlow is a composer, writer and pianist. His music has been described as 'seductive, innovative, full of freshness' by Henri Dutilleux. It has been performed by the BBC Philharmonic, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Rolf Hind, the BBC Singers, Endymion, Carmen Elektra, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Matthew Schellhorn and Sequitur (New York), among others. In 2007 he won the George Butterworth Award for new composition. As a musicologist he writes on French music in the twentieth century. His book on composer Henri Dutilleux is published in French by Millénaire III, and he has written and broadcast on the music of Messiaen and many other 20th-century composers, frequently appearing on Radio 3's CD Review. / Choeur SATB

This delicate setting of an American folk hymn is readily adaptable to sacred or secular contexts. Moderately easy for both choir and accompanist.