Download or read book At the Organ with Virgil Fox written by Virgil Fox and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-12-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A performer's edition of the most often performed organ works of the renowned Virgil Fox. This collection includes his markings, registrations and performance hints. 29 pieces are included ranging from chorale settings, Christmas music, transcriptions of choral and orchestral works to an exciting arrangement of 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Titles: * Adagio from Vivaldi’s Concerto in D minor (J.S. Bach) * Adagio Cantabile (J.S. Bach) * Arioso (J.S. Bach) * Cantabile Symphonique (Camille Saint-Saens) * Come Sweetest Death, Come Blessed Rest (J.S. Bach) * Echo Noel (Louis Claude D’Aquin) * Fanfares from Parsifal (Richard Wagner) * Giga (M. Enrico Bossi) * Good King Wenceslas (Traditional) * Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah (George Frideric Handel) *In Dulci Jubilo (Traditional) * In Dulci Jubilo (J.S. Bach) * In Dulci Jubilo (Franz Liszt) * Joy to the World (George Frideric Handel) * Libera Me from Requiem (Gabriel Faure) * Nocturne from Shylock (Gabriel Faure) * Noel Sue Les Flutes (Louis Claude D’Aquin) * Now Thank We All Our God (J.S. Bach) * O Little Town of Bethlehem (Traditional) * Pastoral Symphony from Messiah (George Frideric Handel) * Perpetuum Mobile (Wilhelm Middleschulte) *Rigaudon from Idomenee (Andre Campra) * Schmucke Dick, O Liebe Seele (J.S. Bach) * Schmucke Dick, O Liebe Seele (Johannes Brahms) * Sheep May Safely Graze (J.S. Bach) * Silent Night (Franz Gruber) * Simple Gifts (Traditional) * The Star-Spangled Banner (Traditional) * Ye Sweet Retreat (William Boyce)
Download or read book Virgil Fox the Dish written by Richard Torrence and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spicy biography of the late Virgil Fox (-), who was the most successful and famous organist in history. Prepared by the organists managers for years, the book is based on a -page memoir of Foxs artistic heir and protg, Ted Alan Worth, with contributions by other associates and students who knew Fox intimately.
Download or read book All The Stops written by Craig Whitney and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2004-09-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, pipe organs stood at the summit of musical and technological achievement, admired as the most complex and intricate mechanisms the human race had yet devised. In All The Stops, New York Times journalist Craig Whitney journeys through the history of the American pipe organ and brings to life the curious characters who have devoted their lives to its music. From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, organ music was wildly popular in America. Organ builders in New York and New England could hardly fill the huge demand for both concert hall and home organs. Master organbuilders found ingenious ways of using electricity to make them sound like orchestras. Organ players developed cult followings and bitter rivalries. One movement arose to restore to American organs the clarity and precision that baroque organs had in centuries past, while another took electronic organs to the rock concert halls, where younger listeners could be found. But while organbuilders and organists were fighting with each other, popular audiences lost interest in the organ. Today, organs are beginning to make a comeback in concert halls and churches across America. Craig Whitney brings the story to life and up to date in a humorous, engaging book about the instruments and vivid personalities that inspired his lifelong passion: the great art of the majestic pipe organ. Hear the sounds of some of the pipe organs featured in ALL THE STOPS
Download or read book Virgil Fox The Dish written by Marshall Yaeger and published by . This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spicy biography of the late Virgil Fox (-), who was the most successful and famous organist in history. Prepared by the organists managers for years, the book is based on a -page memoir of Foxs artistic heir and protg, Ted Alan Worth, with contributions by other associates and students who knew Fox intimately.
Download or read book Virgil Fox in the Beginning written by Dennis Block and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil Fox was one of the most popular, innovative, admired and controversial organists of the 20th Century. While stories and anecdotes about him abound, they mostly center around the second half of his life, the years following his appointment as Organist of the Riverside Church in New York City. Almost no biographical information has been published about the first half of Fox's life - until now. This book sets out to fill that void. Virgil Fox - In The Beginning, examines many of the people and factors that shaped the artist who emerged from a small farming town in Illinois to reimagine the art of organ playing and expand the organ's traditional role as a church instrument into that of a concert instrument.
Download or read book Virgil Fox His Real Life with Secrets You Never Knew written by David Franklin Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the life and times of the famous concert organist, Virgil Fox (1912-1980). Told by his personal assistant of 18 years, David F. Snyder. Snyder was also the Lumierist for Virgil Fox's Heavy Organ shows. He performed with brilliantly colored lights, accompanying the music performed by Fox. It is a book filled with personal experiences and photographs, a must-read for classical music students, fans, and anyone interested in a life well-lived.
Download or read book At the Organ with Keith Chapman written by Keith Chapman and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-12-22 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concert organist Keith Chapman, of 'Wanamaker Grand Court Organ' fame has left a legacy of fine recordings, original works and arrangements. This collection brings together many of his Christmas arrangements, hymn tune settings and a few original works which have been unavailable for a number of years. Photographs and a biography have also been included.
Download or read book The Organ Music of Richard Purvis Volume 1 written by and published by H. T. Fitzsimons Company. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (H.T. Fitzsimons Co). Five works as written by the renowned Richard Purvis from the Grace Cathedral. Includes background information on Purvis as well as detailed musical notes and photos. Pieces include: Carol Rhapsody * Greensleeves * Gwalshmai * Lilliburlero * O Sacred Head, Now Wounded.
Download or read book Organists and Me written by Phillip Truckenbrod and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century the pipe organ was a major source of music for live audience consumption. As the century unfolded the organ had to yield a portion of the stage to upstart symphony orchestras, but despite rapidly changing musical tastes it remained a major player. The second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, however, had become a challenging period for both organists and their booking agents. This is the story of one of the two agencies which dominated the American scene during that period, as told by the man who ventured from a Lutheran pulpit in New York City into the highly competitive and somewhat rarified world of performance musicians, with a stop along the way in the city room of a major American daily newspaper. Were these organists and their agents a bickering mostly gay tribe defined by jealousies, or a self-protective band of loyalists defined by mutual love of and sacrifice for the King of Instruments? This book is part memoir, part historical account, and part commentary. It is also a peek behind the scenes of how the art of organ performance survived into the 21st century.
Download or read book Pedal Mastery written by Joyce Jones and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-12-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Joyce Jones, other organists and students will thrill to know Alfred Music has re-released this long popular collection of organ pedal exercises and tips by the queen of pedaling. This book contains every conceivable type of pedaling found from the most basic to actual musical examples from standard repertoire. Helpful notes by Joyce Jones are included throughout, explaining patterns, techniques, etc. to improve pedaling by all organists. A must!
Download or read book Humoresque L organo Primitivo Toccatino for Flute written by Pietro A. Yon and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for the most basic of organ resources, this swift and playful piece is subtitled Toccatina for Flute. The entire piece is played on a single manual with a single 8-foot flute stop, and is pedaled with a 16-foot stop and the coupled manual flute. While fairly demanding for the hands, with a constant sixteenth note broken chord pattern in both hands, the pedal notes are fairly simple, and intermittent. The constant dynamic is very soft, and a steady tempo is indicated throughout, right up to the end. Pietro Alessandro Yon, (1886--1943) was an Italian-born organist who made his career in the United States. He served for a time as an organist at the Vatican and at the Royal Church in Rome before coming to the United States in 1907, and he is most famous for this Humoresque, and for his Christmas piece, Gesù bambino. Federation Festivals 2011-2013 selection.
Download or read book The Art of Organ building written by George Ashdown Audsley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Pipeline written by Carlo Curley and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Curley is probably the most famous living organist. American by birth, he has made Britain his home, and keeps his awesome touring organ at St Paul's Hammersmith, where he also lives in the vicarage.
Download or read book Modulations for Organists Pianists and Students written by Kreckel and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a valuable collection of practical and original modulations where a bridge is needed between two compositions which are written in different keys. Each example is 2 to 4 measures in length, and is labeled as to beginning and ending key. Especially practical for use in sacred services or as a tool for learning harmonic relationships in the study of chord theory.
Download or read book Richard Purvis Organist of Grace written by James Welch and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Purvis-organist, choirmaster, and composer at historic Grace Cathedral-became a San Francisco legend and (along with Alexander Schreiner, E. Power Biggs, and Virgil Fox) a national celebrity who made mid-20th century American organ music popular with the masses through records, recitals, and the press. The only book of its kind, Richard Purvis, Organist of Grace is a major contribution to our understanding of the music, culture, and church politics of an era marked as much by social change as by a revolution in musical taste, technology, and compositional technique. Uniquely among his colleagues, Purvis was first and foremost a writer and performer of original music that thrilled church and concert audiences everywhere-a talent that won him more than one invitation to leave Grace to compose for Hollywood. (His closest ally at Grace described Purvis as writing "film music for the Episcopal church.") Child prodigy, conservatory virtuoso, prisoner of war-Purvis's early life reads like a movie. Then came his epic rise and fall at Grace, concertizing throughout the United States, and a teaching career that spawned a generation of organists who, like Purvis, were equally adept at playing theatre organs, unafraid to experiment-even with electronic organs-and trained to trust their ear, not just the page. Through scrupulous research and extensive interviews with those who knew Purvis best, James Welch captures the character, career, and legacy of "The Master of Grace" in the book that future scholars and readers will return to, again and again, as the Place Where it All Began in Purvis studies.Richard Purvis, Organist of Grace, 508 pages, is lavishly illustrated with never-before seen photos and a wealth of documents and interviews. It chronicles Purvis's early life in the Bay Area, his years at The Curtis Institute, his military service in World War II, and his tempestuous tenure at Grace Cathedral, where he made the stones sing and crowds cheer. The book includes detailed chapters about Purvis as composer, recitalist, and teacher; complete lists of his published (and unpublished) organ and choral works; the story of his strong interest in the theatre organ; and colorful anecdotes and reminiscences from those who knew him as a friend, teacher, and colleague. His legend continues-clarified, corrected, and completed-in this essential resource for organists, historians, and lovers of music.
Download or read book Pedal Mastery written by Joyce Jones and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Joyce Jones, other organists and students will thrill to know Warner Bros. Publications has re-released this long popular collection of organ pedal exercises and tips by the queen of pedaling. This book contains every conceivable type of pedaling found from the most basic to actual musical examples from standard repertoire. Helpful notes by Joyce Jones are included throughout, explaining patterns, techniques, etc. to improve pedaling by all organists. A must!
Download or read book The Crystal Cathedral Organ Collection written by Robert Hebble and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised collection includes both original works and familiar hymn arrangements by noted composer and organist Robert Hebble. The pieces range from grandiose to reflective, and are useful in worship settings or concerts. A history of the actual Crystal Cathedral organ is also included along with an update on additions by Fred Swann. Titles: * Celebration * Diptych (Orientis Partibus) * Heraldings * Meditation on My Shepherd Will Supply My Need * Nave (Divinum Mysterium) * Toccata on Old Hundredth * Pastel * Prelude on I Wonder As I Wander * Psalm Prelude * Schematics (Ton y Botel and Ebenezer) * Seven Palette Sketches of Utrillo * Soft Stillness and the Night
