SKU: JK.01885
UPC: 093285018853. Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, Matthew 5:4, 1 Peter 5:7.
Thirty-one favorite funeral hymns arranged in a continuous medley for organ prelude/postlude. You can start anywhere in the book and end anywhere! Pedals are included within the staff. Songs included in this book: Comfort and Hope Be Still, My Soul The Lord is My Shepherd Nearer, My God, To Thee Where Can I Turn For Peace? Come unto Jesus Lead, Kindly Light Jesus Christ I Know That My Redeemer Lives Beautiful Savior I Believe in Christ I Stand All Amazed He Sent His Son How Great Thou Art The Love of God Our Savior's Love Love One Another My Heavenly Father Loves Me I Feel My Savior's Love Where Love Is Faith and Devotion Come, Follow Me I Need Thee Every Hour Because I Have Been Given Much Amazing Grace In the Garden Softly and Tenderly Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing Each Life That Touches Ours For Good Eternal Families Families Can Be Together Forever Love at Home Oh, What Songs of the Heart I Am a Child of God O My Father Closing God Be With You Till We Meet Again Abide with Me! Abide with Me, 'Tis Eventide Anthems Goin' home Consider the Lilies Holy Art Thou Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Composer: Various Arranger: Brent Jorgensen Difficulty: Medium Reference: Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, Matthew 5:4, 1 Peter 5:7.
SKU: HL.49045437
ISBN 9790001162715. UPC: 841886029088. 9.0x12.0x0.168 inches.
On the occasion of the quincentenary of Reformation Day in 2017, the composer Enjott Schneider thoroughly studied Martin Luther the individual and all his contradictions. The result is a brilliant, demanding organ symphony which is perfect for concerts on the subject of Reformation and Martin Luther.The composer describes the five movements of the symphony as follows:'1st movement:Wir glauben all an einen Gott with its quintuplet-like beginning is very Gregorian in style, outlining the range of Lutheran emotionalism between the Middle Ages and the modern era. The irrationality of faith ultimately has priority over any thought and evidence. At the beginning of the movement, sounds of knocking on wood remind of the nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses to the doors of churches in Wittenberg. The chorale melody sometimes hides with an almost rough medieval saltarello, referring to Luther's robustness and vitality with which he knew to carry away even common people.2nd movement:In 1530, the electoral prince of Saxony presented to Luther at Coburg Castle the golden signet ring with the Luther rose which became the symbol of his theology of grace. A white heart with black cross is fixed on a five-petalled rose. To him, white is the colour of angels and ghosts, black stands for the pain of crucification: The just shall live by faith, but by faith in the Crucified. But the fact that the rose and the heart are the dominating symbols shows how Catholic Marian piety remained an ingredient of Luther's spirituality throughout his life. In line with the dominant five-petal structure of the rose, this movement was composed, to a large extent, in accordance with the floating, lyrical rhythm in 5/8 time.3rd movement:The omnipresence of death and dying - from the plague and war to the never-ending dangers of daily life - was an essential part of the world view of that time. Fears ensued that might heighten into the grotesque, e.g. in the pictures of Hieronymus Bosch. The Danse macabre was a popular motif in those years. Luther's chorale Mitten wir im Leben sind / mit dem Tod umfangen from 1524 (Enchiridion from Erfurt) is based on the Gregorian chant Media vita in morte sumus created in France around 750 and, with its idea of transience, inspired a simplistic air.4th movement:The famous confession delivered at the Diet of Worms in 1521, I stand here and can say no more. God help me. Amen, are not Luther's words but the version later used as text for a pamphlet. However, it represents quite plainly the straightforwardness and inevitability of his mission. Musically, it was made into a perpetuum mobile, i.e. a dogged, ostinato and never-ending musical air.5th movement:The Mighty Fortress, on the other hand, is one of the great symbols of Martin Luther which, with its shining C major key, embodies the Protestant ideology and willful nature of the Reformation unlike any other song. Heinrich Heine called it the Marseille anthem of the Reformation, Friedrich Engels the Marseillaise of the Peasants' Wars. This disputability is not thought through to the end but rather interrupted: With a jubilant birdcall version of the melody, the finale shows a rather chamber-music-like side of the ideals of freedom of Christians.'.
SKU: CF.SGB502
ISBN 9780825856907. UPC: 798408056902. 9 X 12 inches.
A noted church workshop and conference leader, Whitworth has published numerous keyboard collections for the church musician. Thine Is The Glory, one of Whitworth's most useful books, is back in print by popular demand. The updated folio brings the church organist 12 classic hymn settings that are appropriate for the various seasons in the church calendar. The book includes: Thine Is the Glory, We Would See Jesus, What Wondrous Love Is This?, Once in Royal David's City, I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go, 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, Come, Thou Almighty King, My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, Break Thou the Bread of Life, Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, and Abide With Me.
SKU: MN.10-827
UPC: 688670108273.
Lovely juxtaposition of J.S. Bach's harmonization of SCHMUCKE DICHSoul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness and W.A. Mozart's AVE VERUMJesu, Word Incarnate that clarifies the close kinship of text, spirit, and feeling of these two works.
SKU: LO.70-2138S
ISBN 9780787763534.
Angela Kraft Cross's career as a church musician, touring recitalist, and teacher has resulted in numerous organ compositions. Five striking works have been selected to form her first published collection. The pieces employ a variety of styles and moods: two in a contemporary style inspired by the classic English trumpet voluntaries, a delightful pastorale, a deeply expressive Kyrie eleison, and the powerful passacaglia Tree of Life inspired by the seasons of the year and our faith. Kraft Cross's stunning writing is sure to make a strong impact in recital or as service voluntaries.
SKU: HL.14024513
UPC: 884088488635. 9.0x12.0x0.049 inches.
The Fountain Reverie features soft, rippling arpeggios with a contrasting middle section. As with the Festival Toccata, published at the same time, the brilliance of Fountain Reverie disguises the fact that one does not need to be a virtuoso to play it well and effectively, and it plays well on many different Organs.Percy Fletcher was an English composer, conductor and Orchestrator of prodigious output who made his career in the lively world of the London music theatre of the years of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was music director at many theatres, including His Majesty's Theatre for the last seventeen years of his life. He was the Orchestrator and conductorfor the big budget spectacular theatre piece Chu Chin Chow which ran for five years, a record that remained unbroken for forty years. In addition to his myriad works of light music, Fletcher also wrote a serious church cantata, The Passion of Christ, as well as the delightful children's work, The Walrus and the Carpenter.
SKU: LO.70-2456S
ISBN 9780787779153.
Featuring eight organ pieces, these compositions draw upon hymn tunes rooted in Gregorian chant, the ancient song of the Christian church. Each piece preserves the established melody, often with words derived from the original chant, and spans the church year from Advent to Pentecost. Christopher J. Hoh's unique and creative style breathes fresh life into these timeless melodies.
SKU: HL.14009590
Lemare's compositions are uneven in quality, but the best are still active in the repertoire. The Toccata di Concerto is certainly full of fireworks and has the capacity to show the abilities of a great Organ. The upper parts have plenty of French toccata style, but the theme in the pedals gives the piece substance, as does the romantic, chromatic interlude in the middle of the work.Organ virtuoso and composer Edwin Lemare was the world's highest-paid Organist at the height of his career in the early 1900's, drawing bravos from ctritics and the crowds who queued around the block to hear this most famous of Organists. After having served as a church Organist for a relativelyshort period, he began the life of a travelling recitalist, beginning with a hundred-recital tour of the USA and Canada in 1900, a career that continued until the stock market crash of 1929. Lemare was also virtuosic in his ability to transcribe great Orchestral works for the Organ, allowing audiences in those less urban times to hear works played live that they might have heard no other way.
SKU: HL.49045554
ISBN 9790001165884. UPC: 841886032262. 9.0x12.0x0.069 inches.
An essential feature of attitudes prevailing in the days of Luther was the ubiquitous concern with death and dying, assailed by plague, wars and the never-ending dangers of daily life. The associated fears sometimes escalated to the grotesque, as in paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, and the 'dance of death' was a popular motif in those years. Luther's chorale of 1524 In the very midst of life / we see death all around us (the Erfurt Enchiridion) is based on the Gregorian Media vita in morte sumus that emerged in France in about 750, evoking thoughts of mortality in its outline form.
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