Oxford University Press Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists Volume 1: Advent and Christmas - Groom te Velde/Blackwell - Organ

38 original pieces on hymns and carols

Editors: Rebecca Groom te Velde and David Blackwell
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Organ
Level: Easy to Moderately Difficult

• New settings for organ of all the major hymn tunes for the season
• Fresh, imaginative new pieces, written by a range of experienced organ composers based in the US and the UK, and displaying a great variety of styles and approaches
• Practical, concise settings for all parts of the church service - preludes, postludes, fanfares, communion settings
• Pieces suitable for busy church musicians at intermediate level working in all major denominations
• Some pieces also suitable for recital use
• Registration suggestions that can readily be adapted to suit most instruments with pedals

With a host of accessible, quality new settings, and with pieces based on all the major hymn tunes, these volumes are a must for every church organist's library.

Contents:

• David Blackwell: Adeste, fideles (Fantasia)
• David Schelat: Adeste, fideles (Pastorale)
• Mary Beth Bennett: Antioch
• Rebecca Groom te Velde: Besancon/Carol of the Advent
• Malcolm Archer: Bristol
• Craig Phillips: Carol
• Rebecca Groom te Velde: Conditor alme siderum
• Malcolm Archer: Cradle Song
• Simon Lole: Cranham
• Ashley Grote: Cross of Jesus
• David Blackwell: Divinum mysterium/Corde natus
• Mary Beth Bennett: Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen
• David Bednall: Forest Green
• Michael Bedford: Gabriel's Message
• Michael Bedford: Gloria/Iris
• Rebecca Groom te Velde: God rest you merry
• A. D. Miller: Go, tell it on the mountain
• James Vivian: Helmsley
• James Vivian: In dulci jubilo
• Philip Moore: Irby
• Alan Bullard: Little Cornard
• James Biery: Mendelssohn
• David Thorne: Merton
• David Schelat: Mueller
• David Thorne: Noel
• Rebecca Groom te Velde: O Jesulein suss
• Rebecca Groom te Velde: Personent hodie
• Craig Philips: Picardy
• Craig Philips: Psalm 42/Genevan
• A. D. Miller: St Louis
• David Blackwell: St Stephen
• Alan Bullard: Stille Nacht
• Christopher Tambling: Still, still, still
• Ashley Grote: The first Nowell
• Philip Moore: Veni Emmanuel
• A. D. Miller: Wachet auf
• Christopher Tambling: Winchester New
• David Blackwell: Winchester Old