I am seeking very simple organ music. Nothing fancy, just prayerful interludes that I can play after I sing the communion chant at a small 8am Spanish Mass. I provide music for it alone and I would prefer to play the organ rather than the piano, but I really struggle reading pretty much all of the organ music I've come across.
I have The Liturgical Organist and I play from it but even these are challenging for me and I end up playing just a couple of the easiest ones over and over again. I like this style, and am wondering if anyone knows even perhaps a pedagogical book with simple interludes or maybe someone has written something...the key is it's gotta be slooowwww music for my very slow eyes...I've been a musician my whole life and still struggle mightily getting that information from my eyes to my hands.
There are a few simple pieces in the Flor Peeters Little Organ Book. You might look for some manuals only pieces that wouldn't be hard to play.
Alexandre Guilmant wrote some pieces in a liturgical collection - the name I can't remember at the moment. While some of his compositions are not too hard, some are wickedly difficult. You have to pick and choose.
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