Organ Pieces for Church Use: Organ: Instrumental Work

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

This nondenominational sampler presents well-known organ pieces for use in funeral services. It is aimed primarily at semiprofessional organists who have to play on the usually modest instruments found in cemetery chapels.The volume contains organ pieces both with and without chorale cantus firmus. It has been compiled by two professional church musicians one Catholic and the other Lutheran thereby reflecting present day musical practice at funerals.The volume includes many pieces often requested at funerals such as the ?Pie Jesu? from Fauré?s Requiem Mozart?s ?Ave verum? and Brahms?s ?In Peace and Joy I Now Depart?.The pieces arepresented in simplified form without the use of the pedals. However their compositional quality remains untouched and the stylistic breadth extends to church songs with popular music styles thereby offering organists a very wide selection.Page turns within a given piece have been avoided wherever possible. In addition to a table of contents and thumbnail biographies there is an explanatory preface.- Nondenominational collection of organ pieces frequently played at funerals- Easy level of difficulty- Designed also for small instruments without pedals

Volume 3 in our successful ?Enjoy The Organ? series offers attractive Organ pieces from the 17th to 20th centuries suitable for performance on smaller instruments and capable of producing impressive results with a limited amount of practice time.Among the pieces in Volume 3 are Juan Cabanilles' ?Batalla Imperial I?; Johann Baptist Vanhal's ?Sonatina in F major?; Robert Schumann's ?Adagio? from op. 70; Gabriel Fauré's ?Cantique de Jean Racine? op. 11; and Pietro Yon's ?Humoresque?.These pieces are intended primarily for the amateur organist but will also appeal to professional church musicians whowill find the collection useful as literature for sight reading and as a starting point for improvisation.Contents:Batalla Imperial I [Juan Cabanilles]Andante - Poco vivace [Johann Georg Albrechtsberger]Sonatina F major [Johann Baptist Vanhal] Adagio from op. 70 [Robert Schumann]Offertoire [Antoine-Édouard Batiste]Cantique de Jean Racine op. 11 [Gabriel Fauré] Humoresque Toccatina for flute stops [Pietro Yon]- Geared towards amateur church musicians and organists.- Collection of easy-to-play concert pieces for Organ.- Also effective on smaller instruments.- Already published Enjoy the Organ 1 (BA 11207); Enjoy the Organ 2 (BA 11208).

38 original pieces on hymns and carols-Themed by season the books in the Oxford Hymn Settings For Organists series provide a wealth of new chorale preludes and hymn settings suitable for all church organists. With a host of accessible pieces these volumes are a must for every church organist's library. This volume contains new settings of many traditional Christmas hymns as well as imaginative new pieces written by a range of experienced Organ composers based in the US and the UK. The collection is varied with pieces in a wide range of styles. Practical concise settings for all parts of the church service - preludes postludes fanfares and communion settings - are included. Thepieces in Oxford Hymn Settings For Organists: Advent And Christmas are suitable for busy church musicians at intermediate level working in all major denominations. Some pieces also suitable for recital use and all feature registration suggestions that can readily be adapted to suit most instruments with pedals.

Music for Manuals-As publishers and church musicians ourselves we understand the financial restraints faced by many organists.So here's our contribution to the solution: several pieces for the price of one. Even if you use just one of thepieces in the set you are paying only the usual price of a single Organ piece. If you use two you're getting double value and if you use three four five or more you're quids in!Music For Manuals: Joyful Music -Set 2 includes 11 well-known pieces for the Organ repertoire: Gavotte (William Boyce) Gavotte from Suite No. 3 (Johann Sebastian Bach) Jubilato Deo (Norman Warren) Little Toccata(Elizabeth Hill) March (Richard Lloyd) March from the Occasional Oratorio (George Frideric Handel) Sortie (Robert Jones) Trumpet Voluntary (Jeremiah Clarke) Trumpeting Tune (JuneNixon) Two Trumpet Tunes and Air (Henry Purcell) and Use the Reeds (Colin Mawby).

There exists already and abundant supply of original compositions and arrangements suitable for performance on large and comprehensive organs but many organists who have only a small instrument at their disposal in country churches often have some difficulty in finding short and easy voluntaries suitable for their own use and the instruction of their pupils. It is hoped that The Village Organist may supply this want so much felt by that valuable and zealous class of church-workers to whom the work is inscribed. The editors have endeavoured to bring together a collection of pieces which they trust will prove to be at once simple without being uninteresting and effective where the instrumental resources are limited.

There exists already and abundant supply of original compositions and arrangements suitable for performance on large and comprehensive organs but many organists who have only a small instrument at their disposal in country churches often have some difficulty in finding short and easy voluntaries suitable for their own use and the instruction of their pupils. It is hoped that The Village Organist may supply this want so much felt by that valuable and zealous class of church-workers to whom the work is inscribed. The editors have endeavoured to bring together a collection of pieces which they trust will prove to be at once simple without being uninteresting and effective where the instrumental resources are limited.

There exists already and abundant supply of original compositions and arrangements suitable for performance on large and comprehensive organs but many organists who have only a small instrument at their disposal in country churches often have some difficulty in finding short and easy voluntaries suitable for their own use and the instruction of their pupils. It is hoped that The Village Organist may supply this want so much felt by that valuable and zealous class of church-workers to whom the work is inscribed. The editors have endeavoured to bring together a collection of pieces which they trust will prove to be at once simple without being uninteresting and effective where the instrumental resources are limited.