Organ Course 3

A Practical Guide To Playing The Organ-A Graded Anthology For Organ - Book One: A Practical Guide To Playing The Organ contains detailed guidance and dissection of the organ its componenets sounds and of course technique and playing all of which supports the repertoire pieces in the later books. This first book in the series by renowned organist Anne Marsden Thomas covers the four main areas of concern to organisits of all levels: registration musical expression technique and the art of practising. Together with the graded anthologies in books 2-5 it is intended to be a complete training system for orgainsts of all standards.

A collection of useful service music that is rewarding to the pianist-turned organist as well as the more technically proficient and of course to those who worship. Written on the two-stave format.Contents:1. Morning Song2. In Heavenly Love Abiding3. Jesus Thou Joy Of Loving Hearts ('Rockingham')4. I Will Sing Unto The Lord5. Berceuse6. Cortege Nuptial7. Arietta8. Fanfare9. Meditation10. The Lord My Pasture Will Prepare ('St. Petersburg')11. The Faithful Shepherd12. Elegy13. Upon The Cross Of Calvary ('Marian')14. Alleluia15. What A Friend We Have In Jesus ('Friend')16. Rise Up O Men Of God ('Festal Song')17. On Wings Of Hope18. Postlude For A Festive Occasion19. Great God To Thee My Evening Song ('Hazel')20. Eventide

Teaches you everything you need to know to play modern style organ. Specially written for the benefit of students who are teaching themselves. No previous knowledge of the organ is needed as the course starts at the very beginningand progresses right up to professional standard. Book 3 moves on to the bosa nova/modern pop style and 20 more songs including 'Never On A Sunday' 'My Way' and 'What I Did For Love'.

Commissioned for the 26th International Organ Festival at St Albans 2011 and funded by the RVW Trust.Duration: 7.45 Performance notes Registration: the performer is free to determine the entire registration scheme except at bar 60 where a solo reed is mandatory.Pitch: manual passages at bars 25 32 38 are written for a solo 4' stop (s). The Pedal is at 16' (ad lib 32') unless otherwise indicated (bars 31 37 where a solo 8' is required).III - Sw.II - Gt.I - Pos/Ch Composer's note Esperanza is named after Camp Esperanza (Camp Hope) the location of the mission to rescue the thirty-three miners trappedunderground for seventy days in 2010 at the San Jose Mine in Chile a rescue that was televised live and was one of the most moving and inspiring things I have ever seen. By the most extraordinary coincidence I had already done a good deal of sketching for this Organ piece before this all happened and had determined on a 'darkness-to-light' kind of piece - so the coincidence as well as my feelings of elation were both too strong to ignore.The piece persues a course from a fairly knotty slow beginning (heralded by a few chords that recur at the very end) full of rising themes (another coincidence - the material had already been sketched before the miners were trapped underground) and reaching a loud climax the quick toccata-like second section bursting vigourously out of the tension which is created at the beginning of the work.

This book teaches you everything you need to know to play modern style organ and is specially written for the benefit of students who are teaching themselves. No previous knowledge of the organ is needed as the course starts atthe very beginning and progresses right up to professional standard. Book 1 covers the layout of the keyboard/pedal-board melody notes and chords musical timing and rhythm plus 22 popular tunes to play.

The Blue Rose Variations is one of several works in which the composer has drawn on ragtime and blues. The organ work is based on two transformations of the popular piano piece To A Wild Rose (Woodland Sketches Op.51 No.1) by the American composer Edward MacDowell (1860-1908). During the course of the Variations To A Wild Rose appears as a blues and also as a classical rag often as both together.The sections are Theme: a quiet blues; Variation I: a pedal solo in varied metres based on the blues in fast tempo; Variation II: the first appearance of the rag as a background to the blues as a 2' pedal solo; Variation III: a version of Variation I nowinvolving manuals too; Variation IV: another blues solo against the rag; Variation V: another version of Variation I with the pedal solo almost entirely transferred to the manuals; Variation VI: a final confrontation between the blues and the rag now much decorated. First performed in New York in April 1986. Duration c.15 mins.

Being a fascinatingly unique composer Olivier Messiaen pushed the conventions of composing to its very limits. The composer's music remains ever-popular and Tecnica De Mi Lenguaje Musical provides the key and necessary knowledge into the study of his delightful music. Please note this edition is in Spanish. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the mere age of 11 where he won many prizes. As a passionate ornithologist as well as organist and composer many of Messiaen's works depict bird song. His music is rhythmically complex and harmonicallyand melodically distinct often using modes of limited transposition. It is for these reasons that the composer compiled Tecnica De Mi Lenguaje Musical. The book contains text with musical examples describing unique elements of his music such as ametrical music his rhythmic notations and his modes of limited transposition among many others. For all fans of Messiaen  Tecnica De Mi Lenguaje Musical is essential to the understanding of the composer''s much loved music.

Benjamin Dale Gordon Jacob and Hugo Anson. This textbook offers harmony counterpoint and improvisation as one organic course of study. The harmony section covers the whole technique of common chords and their inversions. Counterpoint is initially discussed as a vocal art and the early exercises explore the art of Palestrina and the English Tudor composers. In the improvisation section many keyboard techniques are introduced such as transposition chord progression and simple harmonisation.