Corpus Christ Organ Music?
  • marajoymarajoy
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    Any suggestions for Preludes/Postludes?

    (I have never played them, but I'm looking at de Grigny's pieces on Pange Lingua)
  • GavinGavin
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    I have a great prelude I play every year! I think I've recommended it before, possibly even to you :P It's from the "Preludes a l'Introit" collection that contains Durufle's Epiphany Prelude. It's by Pierre Camonin, and really easy.
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  • JonathanKKJonathanKK
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    The Eight Short Preludes on Gregorian themes by Marcel Dupre are not hard (a number are manuals only, I seem to remember) and include a disproportionate amount of Corpus Christi selections. The pieces are:

    Salve Regina * Virgo Dei Genitrix * Pange Lingua * Sacris Solemniis * Alma Redemptoris Mater * Ave Verum Corpus * Lauda Sion * Verbum Supernum."

    Unfortunately, not being old enough, they are not Public Domain.
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  • Andrew Motyka
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    Having followed fellow forum-ites' suggestion of Gerald Near's St. Augustine Organbook, I've fallen in love with a few pieces in there, especially his settings of Adoro Te, Ave Verum Corpus, and O Sacrum Convivium.
  • Allan DAllan D
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    One of my favorites is Alexandre Guilmant's Communion on "Ecce Panis Angelorum", which is in "The Practical Organist": http://store.doverpublications.com/0486416860.html

    Also, "Six Meditations on Plainsong Melodies" by Sam Batt Owens contains pieces based on Adoro te and Pange lingua.
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  • kevinfkevinf
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    Messiaen-Le Banquet Celeste.
  • ScottKChicago
    Posts: 349
    Our organist has planned:
    Pange lingua - Jehan Titelouze (1562/3-1633)
    and for the postlude, an improvisation on Pange lingua.
  • marajoymarajoy
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    (If ONLY I could improvise postludes! Ha!)
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
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    http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Guilmant,_Alexandre
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  • eft94530eft94530
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    Musica Sacra Forum "search box" is your friend ...

    http://www.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/1422/chant-based-organ-scores/p1

    http://www.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/2027/eucharistic-organ-music/p1
  • marajoymarajoy
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    eft- massive lists of pieces that simply exist aren't all that helpful. I was hoping for some recommendations of people's personal favorites...
  • eft94530eft94530
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    massive lists ... aren't ... helpful ... hoping for ... personal favorites

    Given that the Discussion topic did not specify this, and that the first post was equally silent on this requirement, and that the two lists identified more pieces than the other posts in total, and that almost three weeks (May 22 to Jun 10) were available for investigation and selection and practice, my post seemed appropriate. I guess YMMV.

    From the lists, here are the two I used last weekend ...

    Prelude
    Procession Verset # 1 on "Adoro Te Devote" (Opus 16 No 8): Leon Boellmann
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akaYI0jnrOA

    Postlude
    Procession Verset # 2 on "Adoro Te Devote" (Opus 16 No 9): Leon Boellmann
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fiKkTzR5Y4

    The free scores ...
    http://e-partitions.fr/partitions//Orgue/BOELLMANN_Leon/boelmannvol2.pdf

    The costly scores (all of Opus 16, a total of twelve pieces) ...
    http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Douze-Pieces-Op-16/18583469
    http://www.ohscatalog.org/boel12piecof.html
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  • CharlesW
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    Beautiful church, beautiful organ, good organist, excellent playing. What more could anyone ask?
  • marajoymarajoy
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    If someone says, "Do you have any suggestions for good books to read this summer?"
    I think it's pretty obvious that a not-helpful answer would be, "Go to the library and look at the 'fiction' section. There's lots of good stuff there."
  • CharlesW
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    I liked the Boellmann pieces and am going to try to find the scores. Thanks for the videos, since I was not familiar with them. Marajoy, I am a librarian, so fiction sections are just another place to look.
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,982
    Looked at the costly scores first, and didn't notice the free scores. Free is good! Thanks.
  • eft94530eft94530
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    try to find the scores

    Just click on the "free" link.
    The first verset is PDF pages 7-8-9.
    The second verset is PDF pages 10-11-12-13-14.

    videos

    More and more useful items become available daily
    and successful searching gets easier and easier.

    The second verset is more dramatic than presented above;
    reserve the reeds for the fanfare phrases (e.g., m1-m7 et seq)
    and the melody phrases (e.g., m19-m28 et seq);
    at m85 during the quarter rest apply the SG coupler.
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