The ten works in Eric H Thiman's A Collection of Organ Music include Trumpet Tune and Air A Simple Air Chorale Intermezzo March for a Pageant A Country Tune A Christmas Pastorale On an Irish Air Elegia and Sortie. Many of the pieces fall within the abilities of moderately accomplished musicians.Eric Thiman was a 20th century composer teacher and Organist who was also an advocate of amateur music-making. He was a prolific composer of church music and Piano and Organ works and his craftsmanship and gift for melody were much admired. He was director of music at the City Temple in London. As an educator he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and he wrote manybooks on harmony counterpoint and musical form.

Contents: 1. Phlox Divaricata (Wild Sweet William)2. Claytonia Virginia (Spring Beauty)3. Opuntia Polyacantha (Prickly Pear Cactus)4. Cassiope Mertensiana (Western Mountain Heather)5. Lonicera Sempervirens (Trumpet Honeysuckle)6. Traxacum Officinale (Dandylion)

A collection of 14 traditional wedding songs for organ voice and piano including: Bridal Chorus * Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee * O Promise Me * Panis Angelicus (O Lord Most Holy) * Pavane * Trumpet Air * Wedding Recessional (A Majestic Medley) * and more.

Includes parts for Trumpet I and II in B-flat; Trombones I & II in C; Horn in F; TimpaniRepertoire for Brass Ensemble and Organ.Suitable for amateur Brass ensembles and non-professional organists.Offers various Brass parts enabling performances with flexible instrumentation.The alternation of Organ and Brass ensemble is in many parts of the world a standard practice in church services and concerts. It is much rarer however to hear the joint performance during entrance and exit processionals as well as chorale preludes. This is due not least to the lack of literature for the combination.This new series ?Organ Plus Brass? presentsoriginal works and more importantly new arrangements which are geared towards amateur wind players. The Organ part is manageable for the non-professional organist and can be played on a small or medium-sized instrument.The full score comes with an inserted wind score in C which is also available separately. Wind parts in C and B-flat can also be purchased. The edition enables the performance by Brass Ensembles of varying instrumentation.Volume 1 includes the arrangement of ?Marche Triomphale? by Théodore Dubois. This composition was originally written for solo Organ and is a part of the popular ?Douze pièces nouvelles? which is available under the order number BA 8471.

Orgel og Messingblæsere-Hymne over 'Dejlig er Jorden' for Organ Trumpet and Trombone (1918) BVN 157a. Manuscript copy.  

Original Works and Arrangements For Church Service and Concert-Original Works and Arrangements for Church Service and Concert Organ Score with parts in C B-flat E-flat F The organ plus one series was specially conceived for semi-professional church musicians and instrumentalists. It takes its bearings from the liturgical calendar and the pieces can be easily played in church services evening recitals or small concerts. Included are pieces which are freely-composed or based on chorales either original works or arrangements by the editor. In this volume the works relate to hymns of the Reformation including some composed by Martin Luther. Enclosed in each edition are solo parts for C B-flat E-flat and Fwhich can be played by violin flute oboe clarinet trumpet and horn in F. For use in church services the chorale preludes are provided with accompaniments in the keys of the Lutheran hymnal. The present volume brings this successful series to its conclusion. It contains freely-composed pieces by composers such as Edvard Grieg Eugène Gigout Théodore Dubois Charles-Marie Widor and Louis Vierne as well as chorale settings such as Sigfrid Karg-Elert’s “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” Johann Gottfried Walther’s “Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist” Johann Ludwig Krebs’s “Komm Heiliger Geist Herre Gott” and Karl Hoyer’s “Geist des Glaubens Geist der Stärke”.

This album is aimed at organists who have little or no pedal technique and are happier to perform music intended for manuals only. This collection will also be extremely useful for organists called upon to play at weddings funerals etc. where instruments have no pedal departments

The Tune in E is Thalben-Ball’s own invention. In the Style of John Stanley almost certainly refers to the many works Stanley wrote for Organ that start with a slow short introduction followed by a Trumpet voluntary as in Tune in E.John Stanley was a contemporary of Handel’s who often came to the Temple Church to hear him play. Stanley directed many of Handel’s oratorios and continued to direct performances at Covent Garden of oratorios of other composers after Handel’s death.George Thalben-Ball succeeded Sir Henry Walford Davies in the position of Organist of Temple Church and remained there for nearly sixty years. In the 1920’s he led the choir to international famewith a recording of Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer and continued to make many recordings with them. His Elegy for Organ is a popular piece in the repertoire and was played at the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales.

A graded anthology-This four-volume anthology contains a sparkling selection of pieces and represents all the major composers of the period. It includes pieces in all the main genres with Cornet and Trumpet Voluntaries Echo Voluntaries fugal works with slow introductions and Full Voluntaries; as such the collection offers a wide range of attractive music suitable for both church and recital use.Each volume contains an extended Introduction with information on instruments of the period registration ornamentation and notes on the composers. An important feature of the collection is an editorial realization of the cadenzas which occur at key points in some of the pieces; thesecomplete the works and demonstrate how they would have been performed at the time.With extended historical information and a wonderful array of pieces carefully edited from original sources this is a major collection that will be of interest to organists of all abilities.