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Print: $8.01 Download: $4.99 Quef was a pupil of Dubois, Guilmant and Widor, and succeded Guilmant at La Trinite. This piece is a fantasy for Easter Sunday on "O Filii"
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Print: $8.00 Download: $5.00 Joseph Boulnois was a student of Vierne, and wrote quite a bit of music, most of which was unpublished, as he died in World War 1 at the tender age of 34. These 4 miniatures last 1 and a half to two minutes for a total of 7 minutes for the set. Rich impressionist harmonies and unusual twists of melody make them a refreshing addition to your repertoire.
Please note that while this music is in the Public Domain in the USA, it may not be in other countries. It is YOUR responsibility to determine the legality of purchasing this music if you reside outside of the United States of America - neither Lulu nor the publisher will be held responsible.
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Print: $9.00 Download: $5.00 Although this piece is called "Toccatina", it doesn't really deserve such a diminutive title - it's a substantial 8-page romp.
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Print: $6.49 Download: $4.00 Jonathan Orwig's Fugue in f-minor makes a nice short encore or postlude. The unusual bluesy subject makes listeners sit up and take notice!
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Print: $8.01 Download: $4.99 Randy Runyon's Toccata in d is a wonderful work for church postlude or recital (and it sounds harder than it is!)
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Print: $7.00 Download: $4.99 Henry Eymieu was a student of Charles-Marie Widor. This is his tuneful Carillon, a nice piece for church services or recital.
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Print: $11.56 When in 2006, I had the good fortune of teaching four young organ students, I decided to write pieces for each of them. Using a system used by other composers, I spelled out each of their first names in musical notes, using the following system, in which the top line represents a musical note and the remaining lines indicate alphabet equivalents.
“Timothy’s Tune” was written for twelve year old Timothy Davis
“Mary Kate’s Melody” was written for sixteen year old Mary-Katherine Kraeger.
“Für Annelise” was written for fourteen year old Annelise Driscoll
“Cody’s Carillon” was written for fourteen year old Cody Engstrom.
Each piece is playable by the student for whom it was written, giving ample testimony to the
talent and dedication of this wonderful group of young musicians. Alternate titles have been provided for performers who prefer to use a title which is less personal.
Stephen Best, Utica, New York
January 2007
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Print: $10.03 Organists are sometimes called upon to do the unexpected with little advance notice, and the composer of these four works is often asked for emergency offertories or preludes that can be prepared instantly. Accordingly, he wrote these four short easy pieces to help fulfill that kind of need. They are meant to be learnable in a couple of practice sessions, if not overnight. All are playable with soft accompaniments and gentle solo stops.
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Colinet 2 PiecesColinet 2 Pieces (multimedia download)
Download: $4.99 Colinet's 2 pieces, Toccatina and Communion make great service music for the organist. Please note that while this music is in the Public Domain in the USA, it may not be in other countries. It is YOUR responsibility to determine the legality of purchasing this music if you reside outside of the United States of America - neither Lulu nor the publisher will be held responsible for your actions.
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Print: $8.03 Download: $4.99 4 fresh arrangements on hymn tunes:
- Crucifer
- Terra Beata
- Lobe den Herrn
- Love Divine (Beecher)
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Print: $8.02 Download: $4.99 Trio on Joy to the World, Fughette on Hark the Herald Angels, Adagio "Silent Night" and Toccata-Carillon on a French Carol.
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Print: $15.07 Download: $9.07 David Gotch has written another wonderful set of Variations, this one on the Christmas carol "O Come, All Ye Faithful". The 8 variations may be played separately for preludes, postludes offertories or all together as the performer desires.
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Print: $16.11 Download: $9.91 David Gotch's inventive work is a set of metamorphoses or variations on the Christmas tune "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" While it is most effective if you play all 12 variations in a concert setting (26 pages of music!) some of the movements could also be extracted as Preludes, Offertories or Postludes.
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Print: $9.57 Download: $5.00 Randy Runyon's majestic Processional, suitable for weddings church services or recitals
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Print: $11.67 Download: $6.25 Randy Runyon's Joyful Sortie is a great jig-like piece suitable for festive services, recitals or a rousing postlude.
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Print: $9.59 Download: $5.00 Randy Runyon's Trumpet Tune
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Print: $9.59 Download: $5.00 Randy Runyon's jaunty "Air for Trumpet"
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AriaAria (book)
Print: $8.57 Download: $4.37 Randy Runyon's wonderful, lush and soothing Aria for organ.
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Print: $9.00 This is Emma Louise Ashford's "Fanfare" transcribed for organ by Stephen Best from the original publication, by permission of the original publisher.
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Print: $11.54 Stephen Best's First Suite for organ.
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3 in D3 in D (book)
Print: $11.04 Three pieces in D for organ by Stephen Best
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Print: $11.54 Three celebratory and festive pieces for organ by Stephen Best
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Hardcover Print: $26.16 Lazare-Auguste Maquaire was a student of and assistant to Charles-Marie Widor. This is his only published organ composition, a Symphonie for Organ written in the early 1900's. This edition was prepared by Richard White and Jonathan Orwig.
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Print: $21.09 Download: $15.00 Lazare-Auguste Maquaire was a student of and assistant to Charles-Marie Widor. This is his only published organ composition, a Symphonie for Organ written in the early 1900's. This edition was prepared by Richard White and Jonathan Orwig.
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Print: $11.55 Three exciting pieces for the church or concert organist
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Print: $11.04 4 easy but effective pieces for the church organist.
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Print: $11.04 When in the fall of 2004, I found myself in the enviable position of teaching three specially talented organists in their mid-teens, I decided that one way to recognize their abilities was to write pieces in their honor. The goals I set were that (1) each piece must reflect the personality of the student for whom it was written, (2) each piece must be within the technical grasp of the student for whom it was written, and (3) each piece, although written for a young artist, must be of sufficient appeal that it could be used by any organist. Just as it is a joy to teach such outstanding young people, it has been a joy to match compositions to each of their unique personalities. The titles given include the first name of each student. Although alternate titles are included for performers who may prefer more generic names, it is my hope that the original titles be used in special recognition of the remarkable achievements of these young artists.
Stephen Best
Utica, New York
January 3, 2005
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Print: $12.01 Download: $7.99 Toccata and Fugue in G-minor, subtitled "Homage to the great French Organ tradition" is a modern composition for organ. The toccata is reminiscent of Durufle, the double-fugue gives a nod to the spirit of Marcel Dupré. You may hear a recording at:
http://evensongmusic.net/audio/OrwigToccata+FugueGm.mp3
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Print: $12.57 Organ music by Stephen Best
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Print: $37.99 Collected for the first time in one volume, the 5 Symphonies for Organ by Leonardo Ciampa. Here is a wealth if tuneful, beautiful music, suitable for recital and church service use.
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Print: $29.95 This collection is the result of twenty years’ worth of Advent and Christmas services, Masses, concerts and recordings. Most of the twenty-five organ works were directly inspired by whatever organ I was playing at the time. The most distinguished of these was the renowned 1859 E. & G. G. Hook Organ at First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, which I had the honor of playing between 1989 and 2001. Advent and Christmas offered the best opportunities to exploit this instrument’s full palette of tone colors. On 18
January 2005 the organ perished in a fire, a tragedy that I have never gotten over.
For me, a December without organ pipes would be like a framed canvas without paint on it. It is my
sincerest hope that the music in this collection add a few drops of color to your Yuletide celebrations.– L. C.
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Print: $29.95 Most of these works are not too well-known; and at this writing (fall, 2009), almost all are
unavailable anywhere else.
Holst’s CHRISTMAS DAY and Berlioz’s SHEPHERD’S FAREWELL2 are beloved by choirs, but not available
as organ solos.
Although the only thing Christmasy about GRANDE OFFERTOIRE-NOEL is the title, this unabashedly
Romantic work has always been well received by congregations.
In addition, I have shamelessly included two of my carol fantasias which, I warn you, will require quite a bit of
pedal practice!
I hope you will enjoy playing these works, as I have for the past 65 years, and will add them to your repertoire.
And a very Merry Christmas to you all.
Victor C. Searle
(a.k.a. Yoshihisa Fujise,
my naturalized Japanese name)
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Print: $6.99 Download: $3.99 Ciampa has written a lovely setting of this folk tune, very suitable for recital and concert use. Lush, romantic harmonies!
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Print: $14.00 Download: $8.75 I COMPOSED this Mass for mezzosoprano
and organ in February and March of 1997.
That Easter the Kyrie and Gloria were
performed in Jamaica Plain by the Mass’s
dedicatee, Clea Nemetz. That summer the
entire Mass was recorded privately by Maren
Montalbano. However, the complete work was
not heard publicly until 26 September 1999.
The mezzo was Sharon Derby Gordon from
Connecticut, and the performance took place at
the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain
(Boston), whose precious 1859 Hook organ
later perished in a fire.
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Print: $7.00 Download: $3.75 Andrea Amici has written this wonderful atmospheric piece as a gift - it was played at the wedding of Leonardo Ciampa and Jeanette McGlamery
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Print: $9.45 Download: $5.67 Dutch composer Roland van den Berg gives us a stunning Carillon, written in the tradition (and having the sounds of)the Romantic/Modern French masters. This piece would make a great recital work or postlude for a church service.
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Print: $10.73 Looking for something different? Vic Searle has provided 3 arrangements of Japanese melodies, all colorfully registered and skillfully produced.
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Print: $19.00 Henry Martin was commissioned by Michael Barone to write these two pieces as a continuation of an earlier commission for the 2008 convention of the American Guild of Organists. Martin writes in a unique synthesis of jazz and Baroque, and these works were warmly received at their premiere, given by Ken Cowan at the Riverside Church in NYC.
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Print: $11.00 Download: $6.25 Order this stunning piece for your choir to perform - it recently won the first prize at the 9th Edition of the Composition Contest on Sacred Text "Musica e Cultura a Piazza dei Martiri" - Comunità Evangelica Luterana di Napoli, in Naples on april 27 2009.
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Print: $9.99 Download: $6.25 This piece is a lovely romantic addition to the repertoire for Violin and Organ, suitable for church and recital use.
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Print: $13.99 Download: $8.75 Leonardo Ciampa's Mass setting for solo Baritone or unison men's choir is a wonderful addition to the repertoire for any parish musician seeking to add something new and beautiful to their repertoire.
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Print: $15.00 Download: $8.75 This is the 4th of Ciampa's cycle of Symphonies for the organ, written in the romantic tradition. Ciampa paints with a broad, colorful brush, and his craftsmanship and devotion to the organ, Gregorian melodies and beautiful music are evident. Recommended for recital and service use.
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Print: $24.99 Download: $15.00 While Orgelbüchlein means, “Little Book for the Organ,” Orgeleinbuch means, “Book for the Little Organ.” Even though I enjoy playing a four-manual E. M. Skinner, I derive no less pleasure playing the historic, one-manual organs of Europe. Sometimes the keyboard offers only 45 notes. What does one play on these instruments? Since Vierne, reams of “manuals only” music has been written. Unfortunately little of it is effective, or even playable, on these historic instruments. I decided to fill this void, creating music not constrained by these limitations but inspired by them. Das Orgeleinbuch runs the gamut of styles – fugues, choralpreludes, Gregorian preludes, dances, etc. The sacred pieces explore all of the important Christian seasons, while the secular ones have no ecclesiastical implications. Certain pieces can be played on organs with divided keyboard. (Such organs offer very interesting registrational possibilities). Each of the pieces can be played on a 45-note keyboard without pedals.
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Print: $8.99 Download: $5.00 Randy Runyon's quirky Toccatina is sure to be a hit, and proof that organ music can be fun. Suitable for a postlude (if your church has a sense of humor) or in recital.
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Print: $10.99 Download: $7.50 4 new Hymn arrangements from Jonathan Orwig. Volume 1 has been a resounding success, volume 2 is sure to please as well. These pieces are suitable for church or recital use.
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Print: $35.00 Edith Beaulieu's first Symphonie is a worthy successor to the long tradition of the French organ Symphony. Written in cyclical form, it is a tour-de-force for concert and church.
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Print: $13.00 Download: $11.00 Andrea Amici has written a hauntingly beautiful setting of the Regina Coeli text, set for Soprano soloist, chorus and organ. Purchasing a PDF or physical copy grants you a non-transferable license to make sufficient copies for performance
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Print: $8.15 Download: $5.00 Leonardo Ciampa has written another beautiful meditation for organ, this time a contemplative setting of "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", perfect for Lent and useful during communion.
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Print: $14.00 Download: $12.00 Andrea Amici has written a beautiful Prayer to St. Andrew for choir and organ. Your download or printed copy grants a license to make sufficient copies for your performing group. It is not transferable.
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Print: $12.00 Download: $7.50 Andrea Amici has written 3 very effective and beautiful Gregorian paraphrases for organ. VEry suitable and useful for recital and church service use.
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Print: $10.00 Two more Trumpet tunes from our master of approachable service music, Steve Best!
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Print: $10.78 Steve Best has written a virtuosic set of variations on a theme by his student, Irina Popov. Suitable for recital.
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Print: $9.38 Steve Best's rollicking Carillon-Toccata makes a wonderful postlude or encore!
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Print: $14.00 Steve Best gives us 4 more wonderful pieces for recital, teaching and church use.
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Print: $32.00 Download: $22.00 Andrea Amici's 3 Prayers for organ are stunning symphonic poems in the symphonic style. Eminently suitable for recital or use in church services.
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Print: $12.00 Download: $10.00 Andrea Amici has written a wonderful lush and beautiful setting of the Ave Maria for acapella choir. Your download or printed copy grants a license to make sufficient copies for your performing group. It is not transferable.
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Print: $9.99 Download: $6.25 Randy Runyon gives us 3 variations on the hymn "Holy, Holy, Holy" (with apologies to Widor on the final variation)
Suitable for service and recital use (and it has the value of sounding a LOT harder than it is!)
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Print: $10.75 Download: $7.00 Leonardo Ciampa's wonderful Victorian march is an exciting piece for recital use or a festive postlude.
hear a demo at http://www.evensongmusic.net/ciampaorgan.html
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Print: $8.15 Download: $5.00 Leonardo Ciampa's Advent Emerald is a wonderful, lush arrangement of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", dedicated to his teacher, Yuko Hayashi.
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Print: $27.49 I dedicated my 2nd Symphony in Dm to Margrit Pfister. The 4 movements are periods of her life. The movements, keys and sound colors are outlines that picture her many-sided and varied life path. There are dark, threatening passages alongside comforting, soothing, contemplative, encouraging, even joyful, hopeful and confident stages. These stages are expressed in the many shades of a composition, which originates in the classical organ tradition taking its skill and priorities from the way of using and establishing the means and facilities of this specific instrument in order to realize the composer's aims. Ps. 23 may be read parallel to this symphony. Here are the biblical themes which correspond to the four movements of the symphony:
1 - “in the valley of the shadow of death” – mortal danger
2 - “He leadeth me” – the right path
3 - “the LORD is my shepherd” – my cup runneth over
4 - “in the house of the LORD” – forever
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Print: $12.49 Steve Best gives us 3 more winning organ pieces for church and concert use.
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Print: $14.05 Download: $9.00 René Émile Camille BLIN, born November 13, 1884 in Somsois (Marne Department, France), started a law degree, but then abandoned it to become the pupil of Joseph Jemain, Alexandre Guilmant, and Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum. He wrote masses, motets, Noëls, melodies, as well as music for the piano and for the violin. He succeeded Joseph Boulnois as organist at Ste-Élisabeth-du-Temple (Paris) in 1910. Here are 3 of his works, suitable for church and recital use. Please note this score is Public Domain in the USA. You are responsible for determining the legality of purchase if you reside outside of the United States.
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Print: $26.26 Symphony No 1, op.4 “Jewish”
The question why there are specific symphonies called by the names of countries and nations has been on my mind ever since I was in my teens. There are Italian, Scottish and other symphonies. Why is there no Jewish one? – or maybe there is one, however I may not know this music. Therefore I have thought a lot about composing Jewish music for organ. After the deep upset at the assassination of our Israeli Prime Minister Jitzhak Rabin In the year 1995, I started composing “Mourning Jitzhak Rabin”. Encouraged by my friends and my public's response I continued my composing activities. The present organ symphony in E-flat minor is a “symphony-question”, that is the question about the uncertain, incomprehensible, inscrutable, undetermined position of the Jews in our world. This uncertainty is expressed by the practically missing endings of the first, third and fourth movements. These movements end with a question.
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Print: $12.03 Patrick Davis has written 3 very convincing tone poems, interpretations of 3 Bible passages, here transcribed for organ by Stephen Best. Effective and suitable for worship services and concerts.
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Print: $19.13 Henry Martin was commissioned by Michael Barone to write these two pieces for the 2008 convention of the American Guild of Organists. Martin writes in a unique synthesis of jazz and Baroque, and these works were warmly received by the premiere audience of over 2000.
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Print: $8.52 Download: $5.00 Horace Wadham Nicholl wrote a number of preludes and fugues. This piece is suitable for service and recital use.
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Print: $11.01 Download: $7.50 A reprint of Eugene Thayer's wonderful Variations on the Sicilian Carol. Suitable for recital or service music.
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Print: $16.11 The Nigerian Organ Symphony was composed between November 30 and December 3, 2007, at Talladega, Alabama State. The music is influenced by the compositional techniques of nineteenth century French organ symphonies, in particular, Louis Vierne and Charles-Marie Widor’s works. Even though the character, style, and registrations of the five movements of this work is influenced by French music, the Nigerian Organ Symphony is infused with distinct African music creative and performance procedures such as scales, ostinati, call-and-response, interlocking rhythms, dance nuances, folk melodies, bell patterns, drum patterns, foot stamping and hand clapping rhythms. The five pieces are suitable for various occasions within the church calendar, such as preludes and postludes, processions, weddings, concerts, communion, as well as other contemplative aspects of services in the church.
Godwin Sadoh
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Print: $11.03 2 unusual modern Trumpet tunes for organ by Stephen Best.
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Print: $6.99 Download: $3.99 Toccata Nervosa (a toccata on "Good King Wenceslas") is a satisfying musical romp for the organ. Give your congregation something different this year for a Christmas postlude!
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Print: $9.01 Download: $5.99 Jonathan Orwig's exciting work incorporates the melody of the chorale tune "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" in both the Toccata and the Fugue. Suitable for Advent use in church or as a recital piece.
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Print: $5.98 Download: $2.99 Blanche Rozan's "Communion" makes a perfect soft piece for offertory, communion, prelude or any other time you need soft, beautiful organ music.
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Print: $11.07 Download: $8.00 Robert Lind's 3 Preludes and fugues are a fresh, modern take on an old form (without being too shocking for use in church!) Recommended for recital and service use.
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Print: $16.11 The 5 African Dances was composed between June 11 and 23, 2007, in Memphis, Tennessee. It is a collection of 5 pieces based on distinct Nigerian folk melodies and traditional rhythmic patterns, with the exception of “Tribute to Highlife,” “Ijo Faaji,” and “Palongo,” which are original in conception and realization. African music could be conceptualize from various parameters: dance, communication, social, political, economical, ritual, utilitarian, organology, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, theoretical framework, creative and performance procedures, religious, and linguistic perspectives. The 5 African Dances celebrate and demonstrate significant aspects of African music through the use of tuneful melodies, repetitions, simplicity, call-and-response technique, harmonic organization, scale system, traditional creative procedures and irresistible dance rhythms. In addition, this work is a true summation of intercultural creativity–the amalgamation of Western idioms with African idioms.
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