SKU: HL.44006366

ISBN 9789043102957. UPC: 884088084677. International (more than one language).

The sound of these compositions recalls the zest for life, the passion for adventure and the romance of the pioneer spirit that was young America. 17 songs: Passepied * Trumpet Voluntary * Fuga 1 * Voluntary 1 * Voluntary 2 * Festival Voluntary * Fuga a 3 Voce * Voluntary 3 * Impromptu * Fuga 2 * Legende * Gigue * Fughetta * Trumpet Tune * Postlude * Adeste Fideles * Variations on a Sicilian Folksong.

SKU: CA.1952700

ISBN 9790007032814.

SKU: ST.C454

ISBN 9790570814541.

This series offers a range of essential repertoire, re-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, sometimes at short notice!

Organ solo
Former Spartan Press Cat. No.: SP604

Titles in this series: Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9, Book 10.

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SKU: ST.C453

ISBN 9790570814534.

This series offers a range of essential repertoire, re-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, sometimes at short notice!

Organ solo
Former Spartan Press Cat. No.: SP603

Titles in this series: Book 1, Book 2, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9, Book 10.

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SKU: ST.C460

ISBN 9790570814602.

This series offers a range of essential repertoire, re-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, sometimes at short notice!

Organ solo
Former Spartan Press Cat. No.: SP610

Titles in this series: Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9.

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SKU: ST.C451

ISBN 9790570814510.

This series offers a range of essential repertoire, re-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, sometimes at short notice!

Organ solo
Former Spartan Press Cat. No.: SP601

Titles in this series: Book 2, Book 3, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9, Book 10.

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SKU: UT.HS-335

ISBN 9790215328532. 9 x 12 inches.

Walter Battison Haynes (1859-1900): Sonata in D minor
Hugh Blair (1864-1932): Short Sonata in G major

The organ sonatas of Walter Battison Haynes and Hugh Blair demonstrate a notable peak in the development of the English organ sonata as a work that is musically cohesive. As discussed in The Genesis and Development of an English Organ Sonata (2017), the portfolio approach towards compositions under one title, a sonata, that included sometimes significantly contrasting movements of varying technical difficulty was common during the second half of the nineteenth century not least as a published example of the compositional skill of composers. Whereas these two sonatas join the tradition of works that could be convincingly played on both medium and large instruments and allow for creativity in registration they are also cohesive pieces that could serve in a concert programme. These works join the legacy of English organ sonatas that had an important pedagogical role jointly inherited from Mendelssohn’s very practical and popular approach to the instrument and the continued European legacy of the lesson-sonata tradition whereby in learning a piece you also learned the instrument and vice versa. They are both idiomatically written and musically rewarding pieces that are imbued with the undeniably English harmonic language of the era that was to remain popular for several decades to come.