Alexandre Guilmant

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 1re Livraison (Book One)

1
Fete de Purification de la Sainte Vierge
Offertoire sur l'antienne
Lumen ad revelationem gentium
(3 pages)(dur < 5:00)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p 608)

2
Fete de Purification de la Sainte Vierge
Fugue (Sortie) sur l'antienne
Lumen ad revelationem gentium
(3.5 pages)

3
Commun des Fetes de la Sainte Vierge
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Ave Maris Stella
(1.5 pages)

4
Fete de l'Annonciation ou autres fetes de la Ste Vierge
Offertoire
Ave Maria
(3 pages)
http://www/e-partitions.fr (zip)
http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/Guilmant.php (pdf, mid)

5
Commun d'un Martyr / Commun des Vierges / Commun des Saintes Femmes
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Deus tuorum militum / Jesu corona virginum / Fortem virili pectore
(2 pages)

6
Commun des Apotres
Strophe, Interlude et Amen sur l'hymne
Exsultet orbis gaudiis
(2 pages)

7
Fete de l'Immacule Coeur de Marie
Sortie sur l'hymne
Quid nunc in tenebris tristis aberras
(2 pages)

8
Fete de la Pentecote
Deux Strophes sur l'hymne
Veni Creator Spiritus
(2 pages)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 2me Livraison (Book Two)

1
Fetes de la Sainte Vierge
Offertoire sur un chant de l'hymne
Ave maris stella
(6 pages)(dur 6:30)

2
Fetes de la Sainte Vierge
Sortie sur un chant de l'hymne
Ave maris stella
(7 pages)

3
Commun des Confesseurs
Six Strophes pour l'hymne
Iste confessor
(5 pages)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 3me Livraison (Book Three)

1
Fete de Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs
Prose
Stabat mater dolorosa
(6 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19) organ (v 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20)

2
Fete de Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs
Variations et Fugue sur le chant
Stabat mater
(10 pages)

3
Fete de Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs / Des Cinq Plaies de N S J C
Hymne
O quot undis Lacryumarum / Pange Lingua gloriosi lauream
(2 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5) organ (v 2, 4, amen)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 4me Livraison (Book Four)

1
Fete du sacre coeur de Jesus
Offertoire
Benedic ... Auctor beate saeculi Christe
(4 pages)

2
Fete du sacre coeur de Jesus
Elevation ou Communion
_ (chant(s) to be determined)
(2 pages)

3
Fete du sacre coeur de Jesus
Strophe, Interlude, Amen sur l'hymne
Auctor beate saeculi
(1 pages)

4
Fete du sacre coeur de Jesus
Sortie sur l'hymne
Auctor beate saeculi
(5 pages)

5
Fete du Saint Sacrement
Deux Strophes sur l'hymne
Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium
(2 pages)

6
Fete du Saint Sacrement
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Sacris solemniis
(2 pages)

7
Fete de Noel
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Jesu redemptor omnium
(2 pages)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 5me Livraison (Book Five)

1
Fete de la Purete de la B V Marie / Immaculate Conception
Strophe et Amen sur l'hymne
Praeclara custos virginum
(1 pages)

2
Le 3me Dimanche de l'Advent
Offertoire sur l'hymne
Creator alme siderum
(4.5 pages)

3
Les Dimanches de l'Advent
Strophe et Amen sur l'hymne
Creator alme siderum
(0.5 pages)

4
Le 3me Dimanche de l'Advent
Sortie sur l'hymne
Creator alme siderum
(5 pages)

5
Commun de plusieurs Martyrs
Strophe, Interlude et Amen sur l'hymne
Sanctorum meritis
(1 pages)

6
Le Dimanche de Quasimodo / Low Sunday / Easter-2
Hymne
Ad regias agni dapes
(2 pages)

7
Fete de Notre Dame Auxiliatrice / Fete du St Suaire de N S J C/ Fete de Ste Genevieve / Commun des Confesseurs
Deux Strophes et Amen sur l'hymne
Gallicae custos / Saepe dum Christi
(2 pages)

8
Fete de St Louis / Commun d'un confesseur
Hymne
Rex summe regum / Iste confessor
(2 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5) organ (v 2, 4, amen)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 6me Livraison (Book Six)

1
Commun des Confesseurs
Marche religieuse (Offertoire) sur l'hymne
Iste Confessor
(4 pages)

2
Fete de Notre-Dame Auxiliatrice / Commun des Confesseurs
Deux Strophes du 2e ton transposé un ton plus bas sur l' Hymne
Saepe dum Cristi / Iste Confessor
(2 pages)

3
Fete du St Sacrement
Elevation
Ecce Panis
(1 pages)

4
Fete du St Sacrement
Elevation
Ecce Panis
(1 pages)

5
Fete du St Sacrement
Strophe pour l'hymne
Pange lingua gloriosi Corporis mysterium
(1 pages)

6
Fete de la Dedidace des Eglises
Verset pour l' Hymne
Coelestis urbs Jerusalem
(1 pages)

7
Commemoraison de tous les SS Souverains Pontifes
Offertoire sur l'hymne
Rex gloriose, praesulum
(6 pages)

8
Fete du Coeur Immacule de la B V Marie
Hymne
Quid nunc in tenebris
(2 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5, doxologie) organ (v 2, 4, interlude, amen)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 7e Livraison (Book Seven)

1
Vepres de la Fete de Ste Cecile
Antienne 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Hymne, Magnificat
Cantantibus organis / Valerianus / Caecilia / Benedico te / Triduanas / Jesu corona virginum / Est secretum
(4 pages)

2
Vepres de la Fete de Ste Cecile
Sortie dans le style de Bach sur l'antienne
Cantantibus organis
(4 pages)

3
Fete de la Toussaint
Communion sur le chant de l'hymne
Placare Christe servulis
(4 pages)

4
Commun de Plusieurs Martyrs
Cinq Strophes sur l'hymne
Sanctorum meritis
(5 pages)(dur 8:00)

5
Le Dimanche a Vepres
Strophe et Amen sur l'hymne
Lucis creator optime
(1 pages)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 8e Livraison (Book Eight)

1
Fete du St Sacrement
Offertoire sur l'hymne
Adoro te devote
(4 pages)

2
Fete du St Sacrement
Elevation ou Communion sur l'hymne (dans le style de J S Bach)
Adoro te devote
(2 pages)

3
Fete du St Sacrement
Sortie sur l'hymne
Adoro te devote
(4 pages)

4
Fete du St Sacrement
Five Strophes (_)(style de J S Bach)(style de J S Bach)(_)(_)
Adoro te devote
(5 pages)

5
Commun d'un Martyr / Commun des vierges / Commun des saintes femmes
Strophe sur l'hymne
Deus tuorum militum / Jesu corona virginum / Fortem virili pectore
(1 pages)

6
Fete de St Gabriel
Deux Strophes pour l'hymne
Christe, sanctorum decus angelorum
(2 pages)(dur 2:30)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 9e Livraison (Book Nine)

1
Commun des Vierges et Martyres
Offertoire
Afferentur
(6 pages)(dur 7:00)(LU p _)(GR p 504)(GM p _)

2
Fete de St Vincent De Paul
Hymne
Quis novus coelis agitur triumphus? / Iste confessor
(2 pages)(dur 2:45)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5, 7) organ (v 2, 4, 6, amen)

3
Fete de la dedicace des eglises
Sortie grand choeur
end of "Jerusalem et Sion filiae" / start of Introit "Terribilis est"
(3.5 pages)

4
Fete de St Pierre aux Liens
Interlude et Amen Hymne
Miris modis repente liber
(0.5 pages)

5
Fetes de la Ste Vierge
Offertoire
Ave Maria
(3 pages)(dur 5:00)(GM p 183)

6
Fete de l'Ascension / Fete de la Transfiguration de N-S Jesus Christ / Fete du St Nom de Jesus
Strophe et Amen
Salutis humanae sator / Quicumque Christum quaeritis / Jesu dulcis memoria
(1.5 pages)

7
Fete de Ste Marie Madeleine / Commun des Vierges / Fete de Ste Genevieve
Deux Strophe et Amen sur l'Hymne
Pater superni luminis / Jesu, corona virginum
(1.5 pages)
NOTE: choir (v 1, 3, 5) organ (v 2, 4, amen)

Opus 65 -- L'Organiste Liturgiste (Liturgique) -- 10e Livraison (Book Ten)

1
Fete de la Pentecote
Offertoire
Veni sancte Spiritus / Factus est repente de coelo sonus / Confirma hoc Deus / Veni Creator Spiritus
(6 pages)(dur < 4:00)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p 398/402/401/none)

2
Fete de la Circoncision de N S Jesus Christ
Offertoire ancienne sequence a la Sainte Vierge
Laetare puerpera
(4 pages)(dur _)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p _)

3
Pour les fetes semi-doubles
Fugue et oraison
Ite missa est; Deo gratias
(6 pages)(dur _)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p _)

4
Fete du Saint Sacrement
Strophe pour l'hymne
Sacris solemniis
(1 pages)(dur 1:30)(LU p _)(GR p _)(GM p _)

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LU == Liber Usualis (1961) == http://www.musicasacra.com/pdf/liberusualis.pdf
GM == Gregorian Missal (1990) == http://www.musicasacra.com/books/gregorianmissal-eng.pdf

All of the Guilmant books are available at
http://www.ohscatalog.org/shmugbyco.html

URLs for online scores will be added when discovered.

EDITS:
fixed typos, added durations, added chant book pages

I unfailingly include organ vs. choir literature in recitals, and whenever possible and appropriate, at actual liturgies.
My favourites are -
the de Grigny hymns: Veni Creator and Verbum Supernum Prodiens nec Patris
the Titelouze hymns: Veni Creator and Ad Coenam Agni Providi (this tune has been paired also with
Ad Regias Agni Dapes and Te Lucis ante Terminum)
The literature from this school is, of course, almost limitless.
Of great interest also are the Hymn and Magnificat settings by Samuel Scheidt.

With great enthusiasm, I recommend "A Gregorian Liturgical Year" by Gerald Near. (Aureole Editions) Composer Near bases his improvisations on the proper of the mass--introit, gradual, alleluia, offertory, communion--one for each Sunday of the year. These pieces are of moderate difficulty.

This thread is 3 years old, and yet there is still only volume 1 available of Near's "A Gregorian Liturgical Year?"
(sad face....)

Marajoy, I e-mailed Mr. Near a few years ago and he said he was working on volume 2 (he mentioned that more folks than just me were clamoring for more!) . . . I e-mailed him again about 2 months ago and never heard back. It may not be happening, sad to say.

I just borrowed a copy of Rene Quignard's "Feast of the Most Blessed Sacrament: Organ pieces on Liturgical Themes". There are some really wonderful pieces in this 20-page collection, much of it for manuals only or pedal ad lib. Did he compose more collections like this? It was published by the old "GIA" the 1940s.

By the way, L'Orgue mystique is all online. Snatch it while you can!

Mara,

I did that about a year and a half ago. I'm glad I'm not alone in my thinking. My wife was away for a weekend, so I took an overnighter up to Niagra Falls and downloaded the whole thing.

@Steve Collins ‒ found my way to this forum thanks to a web-search for Quignard, and found two postings. Here's my response … l'Organiste Grégorien, originally published by the Procure Générale in Paris in 1928, includes as far as I know volumes for Christmas, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, Sacred Heart, Assumption and other Marian feasts, and All Saints; they include an abundance of short-ish preludes ‒ Entrée, Offertoire, Elévation, Communion, Sortie for mass, and then Entrée, five psalm antiphons, Magnificat antiphon and Sortie for Vespers ‒ on the propers. I've been lucky enough to find (and, occasionally, have the chance to use) all of them, except the mass for Pentecost.

You'll find my e-mail address in the Quignard page on my site: feel free to get in touch.

http://halfdane.be/topic.php?id=285&method=A-Z&letter=Q#

Perfect for Easter Day ...

Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_de_La_Tombelle
Assistant to Theodore Dubois at La Madeleine in Paris

Suite d'Orgue (Temps de Paques) (1911)
I. Prelude et Introit [5 pages][chant "Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum, alleluia"]
II. Offertoire [4 pages][chant "Haec dies"]
III. Elevation [2 pages][chant "Pascha nostrum"]
IV. Communion [2 pages][Easter chant before 1564, or for April 1st new year]
V. Sortie [7 pages][chant "Alleluia"]

Online score ...
http://imslp.org/wiki/Suite_d%27orgue_%28La_Tombelle,_Fernand_de%29

Online soundfiles ...
I.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Ggp3wa_Uo
II.
none located
III.
none located
IV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJ8Zbgoi2M (0:00 - 3:52)
V.
none located

Cool. Another obscure composer to seek out.

Perfect for Corpus Christi ...

Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_de_La_Tombelle
Assistant to Theodore Dubois at La Madeleine in Paris

Suite d'Orgue sur des themes gregoriens (1910)
I. Offertoire [4 pages][sur Introit "Cibavit eos"]
II. Elevation [3 pages][sur Gradual "Oculi"]
III. Sortie [5 pages][sur Sequence "Lauda Sion Salvatorem"]

Online score ...
https://imslp.org/wiki/Suite_d'Orgue_sur_des_thèmes_grégoriens_(La_Tombelle,_Fernand_de)

Online soundfiles ...
I.
none located
II.
none located
III.
none located

I have in front of me a newly acquired Ten Chorale Preludes on Gregorian hymns, for Organ by Flor Peeters (Opus 76).

Contents;

a collection using the following chant tunes:

Adoro te Devote (the well-known Communion hymn, set several times)

Aeterna Christi Munera

Iam Lucis Orto Sidere (Prime's hymn)

A Solis Ortus Cardine (Advent, I think)

Chorus Novae Jerusalem

Tantum Ergo Sacramentum

Jesu Nostra Redemptio

Deus Tuorum Militum (feasts of Martyrs)

Ut Queant Laxis (Feast of St. John, from which piece of chant we get the "solfeggio" system)

O Nata Lux de Lumine (Christmas)

David Hurd is different from Bob Hurd, right?

The Glazanov is a major piece, and I have never head it!
He is a fine composer. Stravinsky in his memoirs writes fondly of his musical and personal influence.

Healey Willan has several volumes of preludes on Gregorian tunes.

The Mulliner Book has numerous relatively short pieces based on office hymns and the Gloria tibi Trinitas antiphon and its offspring. Ditto the Buxheimer Orgelbuch, the Robertsbridge Codex, and the eldest extant source of alternatim versets, the late XIVth century Faenza Codex. All these date from late mediaeval to early renaissance, and while most of the pieces are alternatim versets, many would be useful for our liturgies as voluntaries at the offertory, communion, and before mass.
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Also, there is a collection of early cantus firmus pieces called Gregorian Chant Themes in Organ Music Before 1750, edited by Dom Claude Gay, O.S.B., and translated by Willm. Tortolano. It may be had from GIA.

It has an excellent bibliography of cantus firmus pickings and features some pieces and alternatim versets from the XVth through the XVIIIth centuries. While I disagree with some highly questionable editorial procedures (notably the arrangement of independent pedal parts for several examples of very early music) and a very few factual errors in an otherwise excellent preface, the book is quite valuable as a bibliographical and early music resource. I commend it highly to all. There are versets based on Ave Maris Stella by none other than Paul Hoffhaimer, several Spanish works, an anonymous French Magnificat, and much more.

I have our fellow Forum Member, Dr Gregory Hamilton, to thank for sending me a copy of this fine book, which has brought me much pleasure.

Wow this is a knockout! Thank you, I didn't know this, MJO what do you think?

Prelude haha

Haha Thank you Charles!