so I'm trying to find a couple pieces of organ music to play for the Assumption this Sunday, and I'm just struck by how little of it I have among my loads and loads of books of "Preludes and Postludes."
Pretty much zero.
The reason? All the books I have are written by and for Protestants! argh! :-D
I'll use the Langlais Ave Maria, Ave Maris Stella as a prelude, but I'm still looking for a good Mary-based postlude. hm. Maybe I'll have to give up on that one.
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Try the Dupré Vesper Antiphons. There's 5 versets on the Magnificat, 5 settings of Ave Maris Stella (including a nice toccata), some antiphons based on snippets from the Song of Solomon, etc.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBuSBHyExfI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVEn_EdlkrA&feature=related
ah! if I'd only thought of this earlier this summer so I could have been practicing! (I even have the music!) Next year, maybe? or perhaps, I'm more concerned with it this year, cuz I play 3 Masses when a Mary feast is on a Sunday, but only 2 when it's just a regular Holy Day of Obligation, so perhaps I am less likely to learn one just for that! And it appears that it's not til 2012 that we get another Mary feast on a Sunday...
The 1st antiphon really isn't so hard. It's just chunky chords with a thundering pedal line, and only 3 pages (i.e. I haven't looked at it, but am playing it for my postlude this Sunday). You should go for it ;) (if you start today, it's only learning one page per day!)
You probably want something festive, right? For future... Willan has a short Ave Maris Stella in his 5 preludes on Gregorian themes, but it's very meditative. Flor Peeters also has an Ave Maris, but I'm not sure what it sounds like or if it's learnable in 3 days...
By the way, where is the Langlais from? Is it from a suite, or a volume of stuff, or ____?
(yeah, except my hands aren't big enough to play some of those chords in the 1st antiphon! :-) )
The Langlais is from the Trois Paraphrases Grégoriennes http://www.ohscatalog.org/laavemaavema1.html
It's quite lovely, incorporating both the Marian themes.
aww.. oh well, why don't you just improvise your postlude on a thematic motif of the final hymn then? haha. too Protestant? ;)
Thx for Langlais; I only have the last mvmt. of Trois Paraphrases (Te Deum). Have you heard of his 'Poemes Evangeliques'? Those are quite nice too. There's a movement on L'Annonciation, Nativity, and... one more which I can't remember.
oh yeah, how could I forget! The last movement of the Poèmes is Les Rameaux (which means the Palms, I think, but the official subtitle is 'Jesus' Entry into Jerusalem'). It quotes Hosanna filio David. I think you'd like it...!
Ave Maris Stella: Guilmant
"Offertoire sur un chant de l'hymne Ave Maris Stella"
(L'Organiste Liturgique/Liturgiste, book 2)
online score (PDF pages 1-6)
http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9d/IMSLP03925-GuilmantL_OrganisteLiturgisteLivre2Op65.pdf
online soundfile (beginning):
http://www.die-orgelseite.de/mp3/demo/MOT_10761-03_16.mp3
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