Volume 3: Improvisation-Here is a method that will train organists properly for the traditional role of accompanying hymns and providing suitable service music. It is a comprehensive approach that introduces the techniques of organ playing step-by-step.Aimed at pianists of grade 5 standard plus The Church Organist begins by introducing the organ - its console manuals and stops - before exploring the pedals good manuals and pedals technique coordinating hands with feet proper use of stops the basics of improvisation and many other skills important to today’s church organist. Christopher Tambling is Organist and Master of the Schola Cantorumof Downside Abbey. He was an organ scholar at Canterbury Cathedral and St Peter’s College Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

This is a spectacular collection of festive music for full organ. Each piece makes prominent use of the Tuba or other solo reeds. Eminently suitable for joyful occasions ceremonies and celebrations they do not need a largecathedral instrument to achieve their effect. There are no insuperable technical difficulties and a modest organ is sufficient. The Kevin Mayhew composers have excelled themselves again!

Volume 2: Repertoire-Here is a method that will train organists properly for the traditional role of accompanying hymns and providing suitable service music. It is a comprehensive approach that introduces the techniques of organ playingstep-by-step. Aimed at pianists of grade 5 standard plus The Church Organist begins by introducing the organ - its console manuals and stops - before exploring the pedals good manuals andpedals technique coordinating hands with feet proper use of stops the basics of improvisation and many other skills important to today’s church organist. Christopher Tambling is Organist andMaster of the Schola Cantorum of Downside Abbey. He was an organ scholar at Canterbury Cathedral and St Peter’s College Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.Includes many musicalexamples to illustrate:Using 1 manual and 2 pedal notesUsing 2 manuals and 2 pedal notesInvolving easy manual and coupler changesInvolving slightly more manual and coupler dexterityRequiring easy volume changesUsing the 2 hands on different manualsUsing the swell pedalPieces introducing 3 and 4 pedal notesTwo manuals and three pedalsi) Solo and accompanimentii) ChangingmanualsFour pedalsi) Solo and accompanimentii) Manual and registration changesFour pedals – more advancedFive pedals in two groupsSix pedals in two groupsHymn tunes using two to fourpedals

From the pen of Mark Thallander and Bruce Wilkin comes an exuberant setting of the Ellecombe hymntune. ?Hosanna Loud Hosanna? will resound triumphantly on Palm Sunday and at other times of the year.

Jehan Alain (1911-1940) was a French organist and composer. The second volume of Alain's Organ Works is comprised of Variations on a Theme by Clément Jannequin The Suspended Garden and Aria as well as other favourites from the composer. Alain studied with Organ virtuosos Guilmant and Vierne and was primarily an organist and composer of religious music. Whilst at the Paris Conservatoire Alain won many prizes and his composition catalogue comprises some 140 works. The compositions in the second volume of Organ Works by Jehan Alain are full of life mirroring his personality. From lively and comical pieces to sensitive and unexpected works Alain's pieces are diverse in musicality. Moreover the composer exploits Organ techniques making for an exciting and varied collection for intermediate to advanced level organists.

The inspiration for this joyous organ piece is the Vulgate phrase Qui ambulas super pinnas ventorum translated as who walketh upon the wings of the wind (Psalm 104:3). The wings of the wind is a phrase of praise which suggests other abstract methods of praise which occur in the piece-bells and hymns. This short work is suitable for church or concert performance.

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.

Text And Music-In this edition written in German  Technik Meiner Musikalischen Sprache by Olivier Messiaen explains the full theory behind Messiaen’s compositions. Enabling a better understanding this book will help advanced students and professionals for the interpretation of his work and is a must-have for all composers.This book includes the scales of limited transpositions well-known in Jazz the rhythmic permutations as well as other techniques. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was a French organist and composer passionate about Ornithology and one of the most important composer of his century.Inspired by Japanese music he had a very special way of composing and his work can be identified by its complexity its diatonic aspect its harmony with limited transposition its colour and its additive rhythms. He composed many works related to ornithology and birdsong including the ''Bird Catalogue'' in 7 volumes and the ''Treatise on rhythm colour and ornithology'' in 7 volumes.

Celebrated Rock organ player David Bennett Cohen along with his band give you the secrets to making your Hammond wail and rock! Working with the Hammond B-3 Cohen shows you how to adapt the Organ's controls and really get the instrument grooving. You will discover the hottest riffs licks bass lines and turnarounds to illuminate everything from shuffles to Funk grooves and Blues ballads. Cohen also gives you a detailed guide to the presets draw bars percussion tablets vibrato switches and other devices that will help you boogies come alive with colour and tone.

The basic musical material of 'Pari intervallo' by Arvo Pärt consists of two parts which move exactly parallel to each other so that the interval between them is always the same- hence the title. 'Pari Intervallo' is reminiscent of achorale prelude which might be prefaced with the lines from Romans 14/8: 'lf we live we live to the Lord and if we die we die to the Lord.'Now for the first time available as a single edition for organ.

As a famous contributor to classical Organ music César Franck's (1822-1890) catalogue is extensive. Moreover being an organist himself his Organ works are significant and remain ever-popular to this day. When French organist Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) compiled the series of Franck's Organ Works it was well-received and to this day remains popular with all organists. The first volume includes a favoured selection of Franck's works including his Large Symphonic Piece. In addition Dupré's annotations in Organ Works comprise fingerings rules on technique andinstructions on ornamentation among other aspects. This compilation of Franck's most loved compositions for the Organ cannot be missed by aspiring performers of the instrument.

Johannes Brahms?s organ works in a sense ?frame? his whole oeuvre. He wrote several preludes and fugues and the chorale prelude ?O Traurigkeit o Herzeleid? in the mid-1850s at a time when he was making an intensive study ofcounterpoint. The Eleven Chorale Preludes op. 122 on the other hand are Brahms?s final work composed in 1896 immediately before and after the death of Clara Schumann. This revised Henle Urtext edition presents all of Brahms?sorgan works in a single volume following the musical text of the New Brahms Complete Edition and with a preface and a commentary that reflect the latest scholarship. The early versions of two of these pieces are also given in anappendix.

Gospel Riffs God Would Love To Hear by Andrew D. Gordon is a compendium of Gospel riffs for Piano and Keyboard players to learn the art of Gospel stylings.The book has the Piano right and left hands notated as well as a separate Organ part. There are also examples of some traditional Gospel songs showing how to incorporate the riffs in the book into these well known Gospel songs. Play in the styles of Ray Charles and Andre Crouch and see how Blues Jazz and other contemporary styles are associated with the Gospel sound.

One Hundred Special Arrangements-In Hymns For Occasions Colin Mawby has taken 100 of the most widely used hymn tunes and worked his magic on them. These are not just last-verse treatments but complete mini re-compositions for each tune. There is anintroduction (the sort that always sounds impressive but which contains enough of the hymn tune to act as an encouragement to the congregation) the standard harmonisation a short interlude before the last verse and a last-versearrangement of great beauty and originality followed by a fitting few bars of conclusion. Colin Mawby's approach to this well-loved music is unique: he brings new life to the hymn tradition in a style and quantity that noother composer has yet attempted.