By Wilbur Held. For Organ. Christian: Worship, Seasonal: Christmas. Score. 19 pages. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers. (10-160) Level: Moderately Easy.

Organ - Intermediate

SKU: GI.G-8394

Arranged by Robert J. Powell. Christmastide, Christmas Vigil, Christmas Night, Christmas Dawn, Christmas Day. Tune Name: Nesem Vám Noviny, Angelus Ad Virginem, Stowey, Fum, Fum, Fum. Sacred. 16 pages. GIA Publications #8394. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-8394).

UPC: 785147839460.

Six Carols of Christmas is a wonderful collection of short, easy-to-prepare organ pieces based on the folk songs of distant lands. They are flexible enough to use at any moment in the liturgy, whether prelude, interlude, or postlude. These carols require moderate skill and are best played on a 2-manual organ. CONTENTS: Come, All Ye Shepherds (Czech) - Gabriel to the Virgin Came (Irish) - How Far Is It to Bethlehem? (English) - On December Five and Twenty (Catalan) - The Babe in Bethl’em’s Manger Laid (English) - To Bethl’em I Would Go (Czech).

Organ - Advanced

SKU: MN.12-116

Composed by Robert Sirota. Non Hymn-Based, Recital Music. MorningStar Music Publishers #12-116. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.12-116).

UPC: 688670121166.

In composing Celestial Wind, Sirota was inspired to write a brilliant toccata based upon Acts 2:2-3: And suddenly there came a sound from heaven of a rushing and mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. Sirotas aim was not merely to imitate the sound of rushing wind and flames, as to evoke the sense of awe and ecstasy that must have been felt by Jesus disciples at this manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

By Kosnik. For organ. General, sacred. Published by Concordia Publishing House.
Level: Easy-Moderately Easy.

Composed by Various. For organ: 2-staff. Sacred. Moderately easy. Lorenz Publishing Company #70/1930L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company

By Rodney Schrank. For organ. Organ Music. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers.
Level: Easy/Medium-Easy.

Arranged by Brent Jorgensen. Christian, Contemporary Christian, Gospel, Inspirational. Jackman Music Corporation #01965. Published by Jackman Music Corporation

Organ

SKU: BR.EB-8041

Of the 'Musical Offering' by J.S. Bach. Composed by Jurg Baur. Solo instruments; Softcover. Edition Breitkopf.

World premiere: Dusseldorf, May 20, 1978

Music post-1945. Score. Composed 1977. 24 pages. Duration 13'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8041. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8041).

ISBN 9790004174401. 9 x 12 inches.

During the intensive study of Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering for the creation of a commissioned composition for wind trio, I had the idea of writing a larger organ work on the Royal Theme at the same time. This is how the Three Ricercare came into being. They are multi-part fantasies for organ, which - connected by the frequently transformed thematic material of the Musical Offering and the manifoldly reshaped B-A-C-H motif - alternate between free, rapsodic parts on the one hand and strictly structured parts on the other. For my 60th birthday, W. E. v. Lewinski wrote an appreciation under the title: Music in the span between constraint and freedom. This formulation aptly characterizes the new organ work. (Jurg Baur) CD: Martin Herchenroder CD Koch 3-1846-3 H1 Bibliography: Semrau , Arno: Polpyhone Orgelmusik von Johann Sebastian Bach bis Jurg Baur, Augsburg: Wissner 2001, darin besonders pp. 259-304 und 510-532. Richter , Reinhold: Zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde zwischen Zweifel und Hoffnung. Einige Notizen zur Chor- und Orgelmusik von Jurg Baur anlasslich des 85. Geburtstages im vergangenen November, in: Forum Kirchenmusik 54 (2003), Heft 6, pp. 23-31.

World premiere: Dusseldorf, May 20, 1978.