Christmas Prelude
  • RA981
    Posts: 11
    Anyone have any suggestions for a Christmas service prelude piece for organ, flute, and trumpet (although it can be for just organ/flute or organ/trumpet)? (We're already doing "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" as part of an extended prelude featuring instrumental and choral pieces). Thanks!

    Ron
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,193
    Which service?
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,799
    Ch. Ives' Adeste fideles in an Organ Prelude would transcribe well; I one did it (retitled "Mystery Prelude") with clarinet & trumpet.
  • LarsLars
    Posts: 127
    that Ives organ prelude doesn't sound very Christmassy at all, maybe at midnight mass
  • trentonjconn
    Posts: 623
    Maybe take Dandrieu's "Puer Nobis Nascitur" and swap the tune of the noel back and forth between trumpet and organ with each variation? This could work well especially at the end with the echoes.
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