A Catholic Organist's Book of Hymns - Review
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,611
    Wow! This is a really excellent resource for anyone, no matter how experienced. I normally play the hymns straight from the hymnbook in four parts, but I'm sure that I will use many of these three-part settings for verses where a thinner texture would contrast nicely with the four-part, and Adoro te is just wonderful.

    The Chorale Preludes are well crafted and really set the tone for the hymn that follows, and are practical for contemporary service playing, I know that I will get a lot of mileage out of these little gems. There seems, to me, anyway, a little bit of Dandrieu and Daquin in many of them, which really works quite well. And, I've already used your Postlude on Grosser Gott after Mass on Fat Tuesday.

    Henry Gaida, Director of Music, Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, Turners Falls, MA


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  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,640
    It's a great resource that you created, Noel. I've played through some of the pieces on my home keyboard, and I like this collection a lot. I haven't had a chance to really put them to use, since I haven't played an organ in church for a couple of years but I've bookmarked it in my church resources for the hopeful day that I'm back at a console. Lord knows I'm going to need some simple arrangements to knock the rust off!
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  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,611
    Comment just in:

    I love my new Catholic Organist's Book of Hymns so much! I have had a lot of inspiring moments so far, playing the organ in a way that I did not think I could thanks to your easy arrangements for this mediocre piano player. Even organists who are much better than I am have asked me about the book recently, and I just bought one for my son who teaches music in Fargo. I know he will love it as I do!

    www.sacredmusiclibrary.com
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