Song List: Creator Of The Stars Of Night Good Christian Friends Rejoice Forty Days And Forty Nights Now the Green Blade Riseth Come Holy Ghost Our Souls Inspire O Come O Come Emmanuel

Song List: Spirit Of The Living God Jesus You're Worthy Of Praise Praise Him Praise Him God Is So Good Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus He Is Lord Lord Be Glorified

Song List: Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord god Almighty! (Nicaea) Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol) O Word of God Incarnate (Munich) Praise, to the Lord, the Almighty (Lobe den Herren) Sing Praise to God, the Highest good (Lobe Gott Den Herren, Ihr) Jesus Lives! The Victory's Won! (Jesus, Meine Zuversicht) When I Suffer Pains and Losses (Warum Solit Ich Mich Denn Gramen) Grant, Holy Ghost, that We Behold (Es Ist Gewisslich) Father Most Holy (Christe Sanctorum) O That I Had a Thousand Voices (O Dass Ich Tausend Zungen Hatte) O Sing, My Soul, Your Maker's Praise (Wachterlied) Out of the Depths I Cry to You (Aus Tiefer Not) Open Now Your Gates of Beauty (Unser Herrscher) Trumpet Tune Sing to the Lord of Harvest (Wie Lieblich ist der Maien) Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word (Erhalt Uns, Herr)

The present volume of 12 Motet Intabulations complements the 3 volumes .already published .with organ music by Heinrich Scheidemann (around 1595-1663), so that the complete organ oeuvre of the organist from Hamburg is now available in a modern editorial standard. From 1611-1614 Scheidemann studied with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in Amsterdam and from 1629 worked as an organist at St. Catherine's in Hamburg for about three and a half decades. He amalgamated the style of his teacher with North German tradition and is thus regarded as co-founder of the North German Organ School. For a long time, the skill to transfer vocal compositions into finger notation had been one of the main demands on a competently trained organist. At the beginning of the 17th century, however, the rather technical 'intabulation practice' faded into the background in favour of innovative forms of arrangement of the sacred cantus firmi. To Scheidemann belongs the credit for helping the genre tradition, which had unmistakably been in decline, to experience a late revival with his Motet Intabulations and for virtually erecting a glorious monument of excellent artistic quality to this type of composition &ndash. an important document in the history of organ music, and an interesting addition to the organ repertoire.