Free Organ Accompaniments to 50 Hymns

Selected from the No Organist? No Problem! series a booklet is included containing all the words for the hymns on the CD. Here are the organ accompaniments for twenty favourite hymns. Just put the CD in your player andsing pray listen and enjoy.

Volume 3: Improvisation-Here is a method that will train organists properly for the traditional role of accompanying hymns and providing suitable service music. It is a comprehensive approach that introduces the techniques of organ playing step-by-step.Aimed at pianists of grade 5 standard plus The Church Organist begins by introducing the organ - its console manuals and stops - before exploring the pedals good manuals and pedals technique coordinating hands with feet proper use of stops the basics of improvisation and many other skills important to today’s church organist. Christopher Tambling is Organist and Master of the Schola Cantorumof Downside Abbey. He was an organ scholar at Canterbury Cathedral and St Peter’s College Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

Here is a method that trains organists properly for the traditional role of accompanying hymns and providing suitable service music. It is a comprehensive approach that introduces the techniques of Organ playingstep-by-step. Aimed at pianists of grade 5 standard plus The Church Organist begins by introducing the Organ its console manuals and stops before exploring the pedals good manuals and pedalstechnique coordinating hands with feet proper use of stops the basics of improvisation and many other skills important to today’s church organist.

No. 2 Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott-Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott is the second movement of the work Millenial Suite: Hymns Through The Ages. This is an energised and rhythmic piece that has been arranged into a wonderful setting for SATB chorus with organ accompaniment on both manuals and pedals. This musical setting employs the melody in its original rhythm which has a much more syncopated and energetic quality than the usual smoothed-out version that is sung today this attractive setting by John Burge will delight your choir and any audience or congregation they perform to.

Specifically selected from the No Organist? No Problem! series a booklet is included containing all the words for the hymns on the CD. Here are organ accompaniments for twenty favourite Lent and Easter hymns. Just put theCD in your player and sing pray listen and enjoy.

No. 3 Now thank we all our God-The third movement from Millenial Suite: Hymns Through The Ages and modelled along the lines of a Baroque cantata this sprightly enthusiastic piece has been arranged into a wonderful setting for SATB choir with organ accompaniment on both manuals and pedals. There are also parts for a solo Soprano and solo Tenor. This attractive setting by John Burge will delight your choir and any audience or congregation they perform to.

A Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer for Tenor (or Soprano) and Bass (or Alto) solo SSA Choir with Organ accompaniment with hymns for congregational participation as arranged by Desmond Ratcliffe. The text was selected and written by Reverend J. Sparrow-Simpson. The crucifixion was first performed in 1887.

Specifically selected from the No Music Group? No Problem! series a booklet is included containing all the words for the songs on the CD.No organist? No problem! High-quality CD accompaniments for 200of the most popular hymnsJust slip the CD into your CD player or PA systemTraditional hymns have organ accompaniment modern hymns are accompanied by music group instrumentsNo music group? Noproblem!High-quality CD full music accompaniments for 200 of the most popular worship songs and chorusesFor church school and home group useJust slip the CD into your CD player or PAsystemEssential Worship Song CollectionA words-only edition that accompanies No Music Group? No Problem! This handy A5-sized booklet contains the lyrics for all 200 songs printed in a clear easy-to-readtypeface.

Varied accompaniments for popular hymns-Most organists like a choice between the spectacular and the traditional type of hymn arrangement and Restrained Last Verses is intended as a contrast to our highly successful collection Last Verse Extravaganza. Boththese books while respecting the integrity of the tune also encourage congregations to sing with purpose and excitement. Restrained Last Verses is conservative in its approach but will quickly become an essential aid tofine hymn singing. Organists and people will respect its restraint and respond to its overwhelming musicality and sense ofu00A0joy.

Varied accompaniments for popular hymns-Most organists like a choice between the spectacular and the traditional type of hymn arrangement and Restrained Last Verses is intended as a contrast to our highly successful collection Last Verse Extravaganza .Both these books while respecting the integrity of the tune also encourage congregations to sing with purpose and excitement. Restrained Last Verses is conservative in its approach but will quickly become an essential aidto fine hymn singing.

A major influence on Bach ? who once walked 200 miles to hear him perform ? Buxtehude is among the great names in Organ music and the study of counterpoint. Born five decades after Heinrich Schütz the 'father of German musicians ' and a little less than half a century before Bach he bridged the era between the founder of Protestant Baroque music and its greatest master. This collection of church chorales attests to Buxtehude's reputation as an outstanding composer of sacred Vocal music.For his texts the composer drew upon scripture as well as church hymns and contemporary or medieval sacred poetry. Albert Schweitzer in his famous biography ofBach observed that Buxtehude's chorale preludes are 'chorale fantasias of the most varied kinds from the simplest to the most ingenious. In the simple ones the melody goes its way quietly just embellished here and there with a few ornaments and accompanied by interesting and always ingenious harmonies. . . . In the large chorale preludes Buxtehude tears the melody in pieces throws the fragments into the flood of a brilliant animated fantasia.'Authoritative and modestly priced this treasury of Buxtehude's works offers organists a source of endless satisfaction and inspiration.Reprint of the Breitkopf & Härtel Leipzig 1903 edition.

Uses: General Service MusicScripture: Psalm 95:1; Philippians 4:4; Psalm 104:1-2Moving your congregation from spectators to active participants is the focus of this new worship resource. Intended tobe a special moment for choir and congregation this octavo presents three hymns decorated with choral flourishes and piano and organ accompaniment. The congregation sings from the hymnal or reproducible song sheets as the choirand instrumentalists support and elaborate. An important new encouragement for corporate worship! Hymns featured include: Come Christians Join to Sing Rejoice Ye Pure In Heart and O Worship the King.

Uses: All Saints Day Eternal Life Heaven Christian HeritageScripture: Hebrews 12:1One of the most revered hymns of the church is given special treatment here by John Purifoy. The optional brass andpercussion parts may be used with piano or organ accompaniment generating a noble rendition of this majestic anthem.

For Soprano Saxophone and Organ accompaniment.'Peter Abelard was a medieval philosopher poet and musician born in France in 1079. He taught at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris lodging with Canon Fulbert whoadmired hiswork. In time he also became tutor to Fulbert's beautiful seventeen-yearoldniece Helo se.Abelard and Helo se began a passionate love affair (Dance of Peter and Helo se) which resulted in a son Astrolabe.For thesake of Abelard's position they married secretly and Canon Fulbert waspresent at their marriage. But Fulbert later reacted furiously to news that Abelard hadsent Helo se to a convent believing that he had abandoned her infavour of his owncareer. In revenge he had Abelard castrated (Revenge of Canon Fulbert).After his mutilation Abelard became a monk and he and Helo se remained constantcorrespondents for the remainder of his life. Hecomposed a hymnbook for Helo se who by then was Abbess of the convent of the Paraclete. Among the hymns was avisionary poem of the New Jerusalem set to a beautiful melody in the Dorian mode O Quanta Qualia.On his death in1142 his remains were taken to the Paraclete at Helo se's request andher body was later laid to rest in the same tomb. Finally their remains were taken toParis and in 1817 they were buried together in one sepulchre (InParadisum).Peter Abelard documented much of his own story in a number of writings includingthe Historia Calamitatum Mearum (The story of mytroubles).'             - James Whitbourn