The Essential Organist for Manuals: Organ: Instrumental Album

The Occasional Organist's Survival Kit offers a series of volumes each of which features a range of essential organ repertoire arranged for manuals only and in some cases slightly simplified yet maintaining the integral strength and effectiveness of the music. Ideal for the confirmed pianist called upon to act as organist!Grade: 5

Fifty best-loved pieces-Essential Book of Funeral Music for Manuals contains a generous collection of fifty pieces of sheet music of most popular and used pieces for funerals and memorial services. Essential Book Of Funeral Music For Manuals isbrilliantly arranged to make each piece easy to play for organists who may not have time to practice.

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.

Manuals Only-The Occasional Organist's Survival Kit offers a series of volumes each of which features a range of essential organ repertoire arranged for manuals only and in some cases slightly simplified yet maintaining the integral strength and effectiveness of the music. Ideal for the confirmed pianist called upon to act as organist! Grades 4-7

The Occasional Organist's Survival Kit offers a series of volumes each of which features a range of essential organ repertoire arranged for manuals only and in some cases slightly simplified yet maintaining the integral strength and effectiveness of the music. Ideal for the confirmed pianist called upon to act as organist!

The 32 pieces in this anthology have all been specially chosen by Robert Gower because they have a touch of grandeur and are guaranteed to make a striking impression on any audience or congregation! Given such an inclusive interpretation of ceremonial the contents cover a range of moods and periods from baroque to contemporary from stately to extrovert from major-key exuberance to minor-key gravitas. All the pieces are immediately attractive and accessible both to the player and to the listener and virtually all the works here will be popular at weddings as voluntaries or for recitals. With a few exceptions most of the music is not difficult and hasbeen wonderfully set here for Organ Manuals and Pedals. Alongside established favourites by Handel Elgar Boellmann Mendelssohn and Purcell there are contemporary pieces by Francis Jackson Herbert Sumsion Grayston Ives Bob Chilcott and John Madden. You will soon find this volume proving to be an essential addition to the organist’s library.