The Organ Music of Fred Bock - Volume 1

With over 30 years of arranging and composing experience as a church music director arranger composer music editor and performer Fred Bock excels in the ability to add freshness and strength to his settings of traditional hymntunes. Congregations as well as the musicians are sure to value and identify with Mr. Bock's preludes. Includes: Be Thou My Vision • Now Thank We All Our God • Morning Has Broken • and others.

This volume includes 43 of the best-loved gospel songs - all arranged in the sought-after stylings of Fred Bock. It contains such tunes as: Blessed Assurance * Happiness Is the Lord * Ivory Palaces * The Love of God * and many more. Spiral bound.

Madame Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlais and Dr. Fred Tulan have produced this collection to honor the 90th birthday of the composer and the 100th anniversary of the American Guild of Organists. This collection features the finalunpublished organ solo by Jean Langlais 'Pre'lude Gregorien ' as well as ten recently-composed organ solos in tribute to Langlais by such notables composer/organists as Jean Guillou Naji Hakim Antoine Tisne' George Bake JoyceJones Anthony Newman and Frederick Swann. This unique book also contains previously unpublished photographs of Langlais written memories by Langlais' students and colleagues and an essay by Dr. Tulan on Langlais Messiaen andtheir colleagues from L'Ecole de Coloristes. A valuable collection of challenging organ solos with important historical and musicological references. Spiral bound.

14 last verse harmonizations add warmth and excitement to traditional congregational singing in this collection by Fred Bock. Includes: All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name * Holy Holy Holy * Come Thou Almighty King * and more. Also includes several organ interludes.

6 worshipful anthems from top organ arrangers: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (Diane Bish) • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Steve Sturz) • Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee (Mark Thallander) • Now Thank We All Our God(Fred Bock) • Oh God Our Help in Ages Past (Frederick Swann) • Praise to the Lord the Almighty (Craig Phillips).

Serious organists will welcome this new work from one of America's foremost contemporary writers. Recipient of the Fullbright Scholarship for music composition David Carlson adds to several important Operas and other works thisnew composition for the king of instruments - a heroic and challenging piece.

Mark Thallander's second collection of harmonization of hymns for congregational singing has proven to be as popular as his first! Titles include: Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee • A Mighty Fortress Is Our God • and fourothers. As a bonus Mark has also included his famous Toccata on Hymn to Joy. A must have for church organists!

Gordon Young. Church and concert organists will welcome Gordon Young's companion piece to his very popular 'Prelude in a Classic Style' published by Lorenz. This sonata is a very playable composition in three movements and suitable for concert or church prelude. 6:30 minutes. Medium easy level.

Organ Music of Diane Bish-The American Collection contains five fabulous hymn arrangements by American organist extraordinaire Diane Bish. Perhaps most exciting is the long-awaited printed version of “Jacob's Ladder.” This concertfavorite is finally available for others to play. Diane has also penned her concert arrangement of “Peace Perfect Peace” and “The Lord's My Shepherd” – wonderful reflective selections. Thecollection rounds out with “A New Name in Glory” and “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.”

Diane Bish is the host of The Joy of Music television series. By request she has arranged six hymns of faith and comfort for high voice with organ accompaniment: Blessed Assurance * Down at the Cross * It Is Well with My Soul *Joy to the World * There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today * To God Be the Glory.

This collection of seven original compositions is very useful as prelude postlude and offertory music for worship service or even for wedding celebrations and funeral observances. With pedal parts that are relatively easy tomaster on all selections the pieces vary in difficulty level.

Hymn Flourishes for Organ Brass and Timpani-Mark Shepperd's ???Fanfares??? will elevate any service. The brass writing and organ arrangement are festive and brilliant. Each piece in the collection can stand alone in concert or in a service or serve as the introduction to the congreational carol. This collection includes: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; O Come All Ye Faithful; Joy to the World; Angels from the Realms of Glory; Peace Peace with Silent Night. Brass instrumentation is for two trumpets and two trombones (opt. Fr. horn subs for trombone 1).

Volume 3 in the best-selling series of organ hymn arrangements from Carolyn Hamlin. Solid writing of traditional hymns and carols is the hallmark of Carolyn's career and this new collection is no different. New arrangements include: All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name - Give Me Jesus - Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming - Land of Rest - Praise to the Lord the Almighty - Simple Gifts.