Seeking very simple organ music
  • StPatrick
    Posts: 1
    Hello brothers and sisters,

    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.

    Thanks for any input!

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  • CharlesW
    Posts: 12,050
    IMDB has a wealth of music. The Montreal Organ Book has plenty of simple and manuals only pieces for organ from the classical French school essentially 18th century.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livre_d%27orgue_de_Montr%C3%A9al#:~:text=The%20Livre%20d'orgue%20de%20Montr%C3%A9al,the%20reign%20of%20Louis%20XIV.

    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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  • francis
    Posts: 11,213
    I always recommend these 10 volumes for simple organ music at its best

    https://clara.imslp.org/work/72992?imslpIndex=77366
  • AbbysmumAbbysmum
    Posts: 138
    I use this one a lot. I am a terrible organist lol

    https://archive.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/22/08/15/10-51-09_0.pdf
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
    Posts: 1,962
    Alexandre Guilmant wrote some pieces in a liturgical collection - the name I can't remember at the moment.


    The Practical Organist?

    Go to IMSLP and search for works by harmonium. Those are usually pretty easy. I'm working through Franck's L'organiste right now.
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