hand (and foot)

Both nouns are plural. Especially the second.
Be sure to look for the Chords for the feet.

Marajoy wants some specific suggestions for pieces....OK, I'm not an organist. But you can hear some mildly interesting chorale preludes here: http://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quick/2010/09/10/some_organ_music
If they catch your ear, I could probably send pdf files on request. Down Ampney can be done on manuals or (as here) with the cantus firmus soloed out in pedals.
Sorry they're so Prot...I'm planning to do some of Gregorian hymns too.

i am so glad the cmaa organists are flourishing!

Ok

I finally organized my digital organ music library. It is 10,000 pages. It is all PD for the USA. Maybe Noel or CMAA would be interested in distributing?

Wow Noel... Great idea...

If you don't have a need to scribble your own notations on the page, and you have an easy way to change pages forward and back, no problem.

Carl:

Actually, with SKIM, you CAN also scribble your own notations. It's an open source prog that is wonderful for going forward and back in 'presentation' mode.

FNJ

The 100 dollars is so you can purchase an HDTV to display the music... unless you have something else?

The 100 dollars is so you can purchase an HDTV to display the music... unless you have something else?

How about a giant iPad - the size of a music stand?

Something on this idea or this, but as big as your normal organ music stand.

Yes - Maybe I am assuming that people will search the PDF files and print out their choices. I definitely see large electronic music stands coming - with tracker organs (which I love) that are hand pumped a herd of gerbils will be supplied with a spinning track thing for them to run one to generate power to the screen.

Yes the iPad needs to be much bigger.

I downloaded the 1961 Graduale Romanum onto my iPad and I love it. The display is very sharp (and future displays are rumored to be even sharper), I could definitely sing from it and navigate through the file very fast.

maybe a giant iPad could zoom into the music and adjust the page layout accordingly. also, with a touch screen, you can turn pages with a slight swipe on the bottom right corner. HDTVs don't have a touch screen but iPads do.

Nobody thus far has mentioned Sir Hubert Parry or Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, both of whom wrote short organ works which are, for the most part, playable without too much difficulty. Parry's Chorale Preludes and Stanford's Preludes and Postludes can certainly be bought in recently reprinted, inexpensive hard-copy editions via places like www.ohscatalog.org; a few of these pieces might be available as free PDFs by now, since neither composer remains in copyright. I can only say that several of these miniatures make effective, dignified material for Offertory and Communion, though few of them would be sufficiently extroverted to make appropriate processional or recessional items.

In case someone needs a postlude for Epiphany ...

John Henry Maunder (1858-1920)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Maunder

The Caravan Of The Magi: approach and departure (pub 1913)
March from the Christmas cantata "Bethlehem"
arranged for organ by Edward Cuthbert Nunn (1868-1914)
8 pages

https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId=12946
http://hdl.handle.net/1802/13381

searches for audio and visual file(s) un-successful

A Few Englishmen:

Ralph Vaughan Williams : Preludes on Welsh Hymn-Tunes available on IMSLP

Healey Willan! Some beautiful Hymn-preludes, etc.

and if you like something more 'modren':

Kenneth Leighton : "Fanfare"; "Prelude on Rockingham" (published by OUP)

WIlliam Mathias : "Processional", etc (OUP)

Albert Lister Peace (1844-1912)

Sonata da Camera # 1 in D (1891)
1. Allegro [7 pages]
2. Romanza. Andante cantabile [4 pages]
3. Allegro maestoso [8 pages]

score
http://imslp.org/wiki/Sonata_da_Camera_No.1_%28Peace,_Albert_Lister%29

soundfile
-none located

All of the officially trained organists out there (I've not taken any lessons at all: my main instrument was/is clarinet, and I was trained in orchestral conducting) will probably think this one is a bit simple, but I feel great playing it: "Danket Dem Herrn" by Buxtehude. This is a great piece of organ music that can be easily used as a prelude.

Here's a video of me (audio only) playing it at the II/40 Wicks pipe organ at St. Mary's church in Muncie, Indiana:

http://youtu.be/rrlsG_-d06o

I also like the first two preludes of the 8 Short Preludes and Fugues by Bach; the fugue in G Minor "Little" by Bach (I can't play it, but I love it); the Communion by Vierne; and "La Beatitude" by Piroye. Since I'm new at the organ (this is my second year playing it, will be two in Sept.), I can't really play much in the way of serious classical repertoire yet, but I'm practicing every day and working on it!

All these organ pieces are too hard for beginning organists like me, who struggle with rhythms and pitches.

Not withstanding the ongoing litigation (which I'm sure will be resolved in my favor), I'd like to support Matthew Meloche's efforts as a composer, so I'm planning to start a Kickstarter Campaign to provide funds for him to devote 18 months to writing ORGAN FANFARES ON THE RECTO TONO PROPERS

All contributions over the $1 million goal will be put into escrow, to pay his attorney fees.

And Hammond Organ registration, too!

8' Gemswhiner
16' Rohrexhaust
16' Faggot - does not work well with both sexes
32' Richterrumble - felt more than heard

Shouldn't the 4' octomom be an 8'?? haha


Of course the 16' open diaper could also be done in a 32' and 64' depending on how bad it is resonating... Tends to be a pretty stinky heavy stop :)

Tell me more about the strumpet en chamade ;-)

Agreed on Muffat and such. Good music. I question whether those who push Bach for Catholic liturgy are much different than those who push praise music. It is another example of using the music one likes. Granted, Bach is better written, but much of it is so interwoven with Lutheran liturgy, it is not a good fit when attached to the Catholic mass. Given all that, some of Bach's works will fit and I occasionally play some of them. You can have those Schnitgers and their American imitations.

Ah, the Handel is one of my favorites.

Too funny, but I am the one who sang, "Worthy is the ham that was slain" at a choral concert. The people on either side of me were having difficulty maintaining composure.

My personal favorite: 8' Geiger Diapason: spontaneously appeared in the great division of the organ. Glows in the dark. Lead lined underwear recommended for handling.