SKU: JK.01979
UPC: 093285019799.
An Invitation to Worship by Tabernacle Organist Clay Christiansen is a book of organ preludes intended to help prepare the hearts of listeners to receive the peace of the gospel. These renditions are a refreshing new take on familiar hymn favorites. The majority of arrangements in this book are intermediate in difficulty, leaving just a couple of pieces at a more advanced level. Use these beautiful renditions for prelude, postlude, and solo performance. Click here to view all Jackman Music titles including the great work of Clay Christiansen.Pieces included in this volume:Come, Listen to a Prophet's VoiceHigh on the Mountain TopI Feel My Savior's LoveI Know That My Redeemer LivesJesus, Once of Humble BirthOn This Day of Joy and GladnessSweet Is the WorkWe Thank Thee, O God, for a ProphetWe'll Sing All Hail to Jesus' NameComposers: VariousArranger: Clay ChristiansenDifficulty: Intermediate to Advanced.
SKU: AU.978-1-5064-4811-4
ISBN 9781506448114. 12 x 9 inches.
Augsburg Organ Library Series 2: Easter, contains 36 pieces for worship or recitals based on Easter hymn tunes. The Augsburg Organ Library is a highly acclaimed multi-volume series that reflects the twentieth century renewal of the organ and its music.
SKU: AU.978-1-5064-4810-7
ISBN 9781506448107. 12 x 9 inches.
Augsburg Organ Library: Lent, Series II, contains 43 pieces for worship or recitals based on Lent hymn tunes. The Augsburg Organ Library is a highly acclaimed multi-volume series that reflects the twentieth century renewal of the organ and its music.
SKU: MN.10-960
UPC: 688670109607.
This work's four movements were inspired by the four Ariel poems of T.S. Eliot. The poems are entitled Journey of the Magi, A Song for Simeon, Animula, and Marina. Colorful organ registrations, late twentieth-century musical language and references to other organ works and chant melodies are employed in this musical representation of Eliot's poetry. The poems mark, in part, Eliot's conversion experience to orthodox Christianity. The spiritual theme of T.S. Eliot Impressions is that of a journey from darkness to light and from despair to hope. A tour-de-force concert calibre work of some twenty minutes in length. Detailed notes by the composer are included in the publication and are critical to the understanding and appreciation of this extended work.
SKU: HL.49018423
ISBN 9790001171632. UPC: 884088615178. 9.0x12.0x0.079 inches.
As professor at the Munich Academy of Music, the German organist and composer Harald Feller (*1951) not only takes care of the young generation of musicians and is in the limelight as a soloist, but also adds to the organ repertoire by writing major new works. 'Te Deum' is based on the beginning of the Gregorian melody of the Ambrosian hymn. Using polyrhythmic structures, canonic elements and ostinato rhythms, Feller turns a small cell into ecstatic music in the praise of God - 'Te Deum': a powerful symphonic organ work!
SKU: HL.49016989
ISBN 9790001146999. UPC: 841886008229. 9.0x12.0x0.125 inches.
'Alaiki'ssalaam' (Peace be with you) is a Maronite Marian hymn which is developed in a setting of 7 variations here. From melismatic design via variations with rhythmic ostinatos, a march or a habanera to the ending in a brilliant and merry coda, Hakim develops the theme rather effectively.
SKU: AU.9781506487328
ISBN 9781506487328. 9x12 inches.
Brenda Portman's understanding of the organ comes to life in her collection of ten arrangements of hymns found in the worship supplement All Creation Sings, with writing that makes use of styles and techniques characteristic of the organ. Included is a festival fanfare on Day of Delight and Beauty Unbounded (IN DIR IST FREUDE), a trio on Down Galilee's Slow Roadways (Merle's Tune), a toccata on God's Work Our Hands (Earth and All Stars), and a gospel setting of Sometimes Our Only Song Is Weeping (Wayfaring Stranger).
SKU: MN.12-128
UPC: 688670121289.
The three movements that make up Nocturnes, Book I are programmatic pieces that take as their points of departure a painting, the rhythms of a great city, and a poem. 1. The Starry Night is a written down improvisation based on Vincent van Goghs famous picture of the same name. The tonal material is a quite literal transformation of the visual elements of the painting: the melismatic cadenzas mirror van Goghs swirling starlight, and the powerful chords were suggested by the sinister trees that shoot upward to puncture the skys patterns. 2. Stovers Rag is a product of the ragtime revival of the early 1970s, when many composers tried their hand at writing concert rags. The New York night, which was not without its sinister element in those days, is expressed in an updating of the classic ragtime format. The piece looks backward as well, with the old French Baroque basse de trompette making an appearance in the trio section. 3. The Song of Shadows taps the nostalgic mood typical of the poetry of Walter de la Mare. The poem of the same name pictures a lone musician on a winter night, an dog sleeping before a sinking fire, and, at the end, the spirits that are summoned by music. The opening melody, played on an 8 flute with tremulant, suggests the blues-tinged sound of an alto saxophone, and throughout the movement the organs capacity for sustained tone is used to suggest and atmosphere of dreamy timelessness. The pieces were written in 1971 and first performed on July 2, 1972 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, with the composer at the console.
SKU: MN.10-927
Cityscape dates from 1992 and was composed for inclusion in an organ recital of Chicago composers as part of the Fourth Presbyterian Church's annual Festival of the Arts. The theme of that year's festival was Faces of the City. This three movement work, which depicts facets of the city, is based on a three-note descending scale (C-B-A), the opening notes of the popular song, Chicago, Chicago, that Toddlin' Town. Coincidentally, this same melodic sequence marks the beginning of OLD HUNDREDTH, and a citation of that melody occurs in the third movement. The Fourth Presbyterian Church is located on the part of North Michigan Avenue which is known as The Magnificent Mile. Each of its Sunday morning services begins with the singing of OLD HUNDREDTH, sung to the text of the Doxology. The first performance of Cityscape was played by David Schrader, to whom it is dedicated.
SKU: MN.12-121
UPC: 688670121210.
Confluence was commissioned by the Organ Artist Series of Pittsburgh in celebration of its twentieth anniversary in 1999. Christa Rakich gave the premier at the closing concert of the season at Calvary Episcopal Church by in April of 1999. It has been performed frequently since that time. The title was given to honor the joining together or confluence of the three rivers of Pittsburgh: the Allegheny, the Monongalela, and the Ohio. Confluence is a curious hybrid related to both the sonata and rondo forms. It is of the ABABA design with the final A quite extended by polyphonic games and a very noisy and triumphant epilogue. The first idea is driving, rhythmic, nervous and agitated. The second is quiet, gentle and pastoral, that slowly moves in its mysterious ways, closing with a plaintive row of a dozen different pitches. The composer delights in the challenge of making tone rows as approachable and sing-able as possible. Both ideas make slightly varied restatements. At the end, fugal exploitation of the first idea is followed by that row, entering with stentorian grandeur in full pedal, heralding the triumphant close. This row, like the month of March is referred to frequently as coming in like a Iamb, going out like a lion.
SKU: MN.12-115
UPC: 688670121159.
Pedals only and Large Tam-Tam. The Kraken is a work for organ pedals with the player also playing a large tam-tam (or the player could also be joined by a percussionist.) It is based upon the poem by the same name by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892.) The Kraken is a mythical Norse sea monster. The opening lines of the poem give the setting for the music, which starts on the lowest possible pitches and works upward to a frenzy in both instruments: Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth.
SKU: MN.10-917
Scripture: Psalms 11.
A 9-minute concert piece contrasts gorgeous adagio-like melodies with quicker sectionsbuilding to cadences using full organ. Blend of traditional Romantic and 20th-century techniques.
SKU: MN.12-116
UPC: 688670121166.
In composing Celestial Wind, Sirota was inspired to write a brilliant toccata based upon Acts 2:2-3: And suddenly there came a sound from heaven of a rushing and mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. Sirotas aim was not merely to imitate the sound of rushing wind and flames, as to evoke the sense of awe and ecstasy that must have been felt by Jesus disciples at this manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
SKU: MN.12-111
UPC: 688670121111.
Of Things Hoped For begins with a modest arching phrase, supported by a descending pedal line. The ensuing meditation develops a new melismatic idea along with toccata elements, leading to a grand statement. A dance follows, based on the melisma, which stretches and flips the material. The little bass line from the opening re-asserts itself as a soprano tune, first in a quiet B-major episode, then triumphantly and in D major in the trumpet. Thomas was commissioned to write this work by Marilyn Biery in honor of James Biery's birthday in 2001; it was premiered by James in May, 2001, at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, MN.
