Pachelbel, Johann : Organ Works Vol.1

This highly regarded selection of Pachelbel's organ works provides organists with a wide-ranging selection of easy to moderately difficult organ pieces both based on chorales and freely composed. They are equally suitable as service music or concert pieces. Many of these pieces can also be played on small organs or the harpsichord.

Sing, Choirs! is a library in miniature. It contains many of the Christian church's popular traditional anthems, including at least one example that will be suitable for each of the major services of the year. A number of Anglican chants (Psalms, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) are included, set out in a way that should enable those who are unfamiliar with the style to perform them easily. The selection of movements from the Mass can be used to enrich the music of the liturgy in services. Many of the works in Sing, Choirs! are presented in their original form, such as Bruckner's Locus Iste and Mozart's Laudate Dominum . Others are arrangements, adaptations or longer pieces, abridged to bring them into the scope of a useable anthem, including choral arrangements of Handel's Largo , the Ave Marias by Schubert and by Bach and Gounod, and Franck's Panis Angelicus amongst many others. This collection has practicability as a priority. The Organ parts can be played on either the Piano or the Keyboard. Much of the music in Sing, Choirs! will be suitable for special occasions, making this an indispensable volume for choirs singing at weekly church services, weddings, funerals and in the concert hall. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue

Par PACHELBEL JOHANN. Bien que le Canon en ré majeur pour trois violons et basse continue lui a valu la renommée pratiquement partout dans le monde, le oeuvre de Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) sans aucun doute se concentre sur le domaine de la musique d'orgue. Son oeuvre a influencé des générations ultérieures des organistes u/ Répertoire / Orgue ou Clavecin et Clavicorde

The Oxford Book of Christmas Music for Organ, Bk 2. The second Oxford Book of Christmas Organ Music comprises a diverse collection of seasonal organ music, covering the Church's year from Advent to Epiphany. The music is stylistically varied, and the pieces are drawn internationally from across the centuries with a mixture of established repertoire set alongside newly commissioned works.

While Pachelbel has been most admired as a composer of organ works and Lutheran church music his Canon in D has long been one of his most celebrated compositions. It combines two time-honored compositional devices. The first of these is of course the canon a procedure whereby a melody in one part is strictly imitated by one or more other parts; a round (such as for example Frère Jacques) is a type of canon. The second device involves a short bass line (refeered to as a ground bass) that is repeated constandly over which the composer writes continuous variations. In its original form the work consists of an initial statement of an eight note ground bass followed by27 variations in strict canonic style for three violins above that bass. In addition to these four essential parts an appropriate harmonic background would have been improvised on harpsichord lute or organ. In the present arrangement Pachelbel's note values have been doubled for greater ease of reading and the work's canonic structure has been somewhat modified in order to make it more readily playable by violinists and pianists at an intermediate level. Since dynamics bowing indications articulations and slurs were not customarily provided by composer of the Baroque era the arranger and the editor have added them here as well as a metronome indication and a few cadential trills. Obviously these editorial additions should be regarded only as suggestions.

Most commonly known for his famous Canon in D Johann Pachelbel was an organ virtuoso and composed many works including several toccatas. This toccata has been carefully adapted for strings into the key of D with someadded dynamics but with the original tempo variations and ornamentation preserved. An ideal teaching and performance piece from master arranger Lloyd Conley. Dur: 2:15

Instrumentation : Orgue / Editions : Baerenreiter Verlag Descriptif : Praeludium, Fantasie, Toccaten, Fugen, Ricercar, Ciaconnen

Johann Pachelbel born in Nuremberg in 1653 a generation before Bach is one of Southern Germany?s most important post-Reformation organ composers. His compositions were already widely known at the time. The most popular worktoday is probably the canon with ensuing gigue in D major. The canon - according to the source ?a 3 Violinis con Basso c.? - is built up over an ostinato bass whose two bar fi gure is repeated a total of 28 times. The followingshort gigue is also in a strict contrapuntal style. It is not known when the work was composed. As with most of his other chamber music works Pachelbel might have composed it during his time in Thuringia between 1677 and 1695.This pleasing work is also popular with amateur ensembles.

Instrumentation : Orgue / Descriptif : 12 Präludien, Toccaten, Ricercar und Fugen / Contenu : Präludien, 5 Toccaten, Ricercar und 5 Fugen