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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy			[18/226]
1/1090	Overture to the Oratorio “St. Paul” (arr. by W. T. Best)	US$10.99
Gordon Balch Nevin			[1/226]
2/1090	Toccata in D minor	US$9.49
21/1090	Summer Song	US$6.99
Ralph Driffill			[11/226]
3/1090	Suite No 1 in F minor (1: Allegro Maestoso; 2: Romance; 3: Toccata) (Op. 14)	US$13.99
25/1090	Suite No 2 in E minor (1: Allegro con spirito; 2: Berceuse; 3: Allegro Vivace)	US$13.99
Richard Wagner			[12/226]
4/1090	Overture to “Tannhäuser” (arr. by Edwin H. Lemare)	US$17.49
7/1090	Overture to “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” (arr. by Edwin H. Lemare)	US$13.49
13/1090	Ride of the Valkeries (arr. by Edwin H. Lemare)	US$12.99
Grimoaldo Macchia			[8/226]
5/1090	Introduction, Trumpet Tune & finale on “Hymn of Joy”	US$10.49
11/1090	Festlig låt	US$10.99
19/1090	Grand Triumphal March	US$10.99
20/1090	Psalm 150 – “Lobe den Herren”	US$7.99
William Faulkes			[127/226]
6/1090	Christmas Meditation (on the hymn tune “Adeste Fideles”) (Op. 183/3)	US$6.99
Owen Powell			[6/226]
8/1090	Toccata	US$9.49
George Butterworth			[5/226]
9/1090	The Banks of Green Willow (Idyll) (arr. by W. B. Henshaw)	US$10.99
Georg Friederich Händel			[48/226]
10/1090	Overture to the Occasional Oratorio (arr. by W. T. Best)	US$11.49
Camille Saint-Saëns			[2/226]
12/1090	Danse Macabre (Op. 40) (arr. by Edwin H. Lemare)	US$13.49
Sigismond von Neukomm			[3/226]
14/1090	Grand Dramatic Fantasia (A Concert on a Lake Interrupted by a Thunderstorm)	US$13.99
Engelbert Humperdinck			[10/226]
15/1090	Vorspiel from Hänsel und Gretel (arr. by Edwin H. Lemare)	US$11.49
Ernest Halsey			[78/226]
16/1090	Toccata in C minor (Op. 26/2)	US$10.99
Niels Gade			[4/226]
17/1090	Fantasie on the chorale “Lobet den Herren”	US$9.49
Edward Elgar			[43/226]
18/1090	Pomp & Circumstance March No 1 (Op. 39) (arr. by Edwin H. Lemare)	US$10.99
Edourd Batiste			[49/226]
22/1090	Grand Offertoire in D minor	US$8.49
Dr Cuthbert Harris			[22/226]
23/1090	Madrigal	US$7.49
Karl Bohm			[14/226]
24/1090	Still wie die Nacht (arr. by Edwin H. Lemare)	US$6.99
Percy E. Fletcher			[16/226]
26/1090	Festival Toccata	US$10.99
Edvard Grieg			[19/226]
27/1090	Ave maris stella	US$6.49
Julius Reubke			[7/226]
28/1090	Sonata on the 94th Psalm	US$18.99
Hector Berlioz			[9/226]
29/1090	Hungarian March “Rakoczy” (arr. by W. T. Best)	US$9.99
Albert Rénaud			[44/226]
30/1090	Andantino cantabile (Op. 123/2)	US$7.49
Johann Sebastian Bach			[13/226]
Francesco Viviani			[15/226]
Georges Debat-Ponsan			[17/226]
Max Keller			[20/226]
Friedrich Lux			[21/226]
F. Maurice Jephson			[23/226]
Sir Julius Benedict			[24/226]

Best Selling Books

Organ voicing and tuning

This book offers details of the voicing of various organ pipes, the tools needed, and details of tuning the instrument. The book has been written for amateur organ constructors and organ technicians.

Buy now for only US$25.95

Organ Building for Amateurs by Mark Wicks

This book contains details of how to make the various parts of a pipe organ, including, the key and stop action, key-boards, pipes, bellows and the case. It also contains information on defects and their cures, and on tuning.

Buy now for only US$61.95

Practical Organ Building by W. E. Dickson

This book offers a concise step-by-step description of the building of a chamber pipe-organ. Precise instructions on the tasks needed in building a one or two manual pipe organ, including the tools needed, the making of a stopped diapason rank, the sound-boards, wind-chests, bellows, action, and a section on village church organs.

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A Bibliography of Organ Music by W. B. Henshaw

The third edition of this book now contains over 10,000 composers and 74,000 entries, making it one of the most comprehensive list of organ music ever published. Each composer is listed with ‘life-dates’ and their main countries of residence; alternate spellings of names which are cross referenced in their related positions are given, together with the portion of the name usually used highlighted. The list of compositions for each composer includes publisher, date of publication and composition, opus number, and the movements of large multi-movement works. Note that owing to varied information sometimes available, not all of the above is necessary on each work. Other information included is an appendix of publishers including their web-address where known.

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Modern Organ Tuning by Herman Smith

This book explains the technique for tuning the pipe organ, together with the details of setting the scale with equal temperament. Also included is the history of the musical scale and how it was derived.

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Tales of Organists by John Warriner

This book contains over 400 anecdotes, tales, comic passages, which have been supplied by various organists. This makes a most amusing collection, and also gives an insight into the lives of 19th and early 20th century organist and choir masters. The various chapters are entitled: Tales which are (probably) Stories; Tales Which are not Stories; Rather Longer Tales; Tales in Verse; Obiter Dicta; “Best” Stories and Tales which have been docked; Containing a Moral without a Tale; Tales with a Beginning and no Particular End; Tales Without a Beginning, but with an Unmistakeable Coda; Stories of the Supernormal; Conundrums and Howlers.

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A Blind Musician Looks Back by Alfred Hollins

This book gives a flowing account of the life of this eminent blind concert organist, pianist, and composer; who was soloist with the Berlin, London, and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tracing his life from his birth in Hull in 1865, and describing his three North American Tours, and those in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

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Modern Organ Stops by Noel A.Bonavia-Hunt

This book is a practical guide to their nomenclature, construction, and artistic use. The various stops are described in alphabetical order, with details of scale, mouth dimensions, voicing, and location of specimen samples. Also included is an appendix of technical terms used in the book and elsewhere.

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Reform in Organ Building by Thomas Casson

This book is the text of a lecture given by Thomas Casson to the Birmingham and Midland Musical Guild on 4th February 1888. It covers the inadequate provision of the pedal organ, and details a novel solution to this problem.

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The Organ by Hopkins & Rimbault

This book contains a History of the Organ by E. F. Rimbault, followed by a comprehensive treatise on the construction of the Organ by E. J. Hopkins; with an appendix of 342 specification of Organs, together with a list of foreign and English equivalent terms. The main sections included in the history are: The Ancient Organ; the Mediæval Organ; the first Organ-builders; and the founders of modern Organ-building. The main sections of the construction are: The exterior; the wind-collecting portion; the wind-distribution portion (sound-board, the table, &c); the mechanism; the sound-producing portions; tuning and temperament; common faults; and suggestions for the construction and erection.

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The Influence of the Organ in History by Dudley Buck

This book is the text of the inaugural lecture given by Dudley Buck to the department of organ of the music college in the University of Boston.

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