Jazz Inspirations for Organ 4. Popular Music for Church Services and Concerts.

Jazz, swing, samba, rhumba and more all found their way to the organ long ago. Not only do the melodies, harmonies and rhythms of these styles enrich the organ's concert literature, they can also be meaningfully incorporated in the liturgy.

The series “Jazz Inspirations” for Organ offers a delightful and personal combination of many forms and highly contrasting styles at a moderate level of difficulty. Volume 4 presents a new array of stylistic and thematic focuses: “Funky Praise” and ”Ich lobe dich von ganzer Seelen” (“I praise thee with all my soul”) can be found alongside a “Little Shepherd's Chachacha” and the familiar carol “Kommet, ihr Hirten”. It even contains two compositions from the American organ scene.

- Jazz, swing and much more for the organ

- Authoritative editors and composers

- Pieces of a moderate level of difficulty

- Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng)

Barenreiter Performance Score
68 Pages, 30.0 x 23.0cm

Edited by Uwe-Karsten Groß and Gunther Göttsche

Preface

EGATOP - Zsolt Gárdonyi

Liselotte Kunkel - Meditation on the chorale Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig

Matthias Nagel - Auf meinen lieben Gott

Gerhard Luchterhandt - Quempas-Reagge on Den die Hirten lobeten sehre (Quem pastores laudavere)

Thomas Riegler - Easy-Rag on the chorale Du meine Seele s(w)inge

Gunther Martin Göttsche - Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet / Herr Jesu Christe, mein getreuer Hirte

Gunther Martin Göttsche - Herr, deine Güte reicht, so weit

David Christiansen - Jazz Waltz-Swing on the chorale Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr

Gerhard Luchterhandt - Funky Praise on Ich lobe dich von ganzer Seelen

Gunther Martin Göttsche - In Frieden dein, o Herre mein

Thomas Riegler - Samba on the chorale In dir ist Freude

Matthias Nagel - Wanna love You, my strength

Hans Martin Kiefer - Jazz-Waltz on the chorale Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns

Christopher Löbens - Ostinato

Gerhard Luchterhandt - Little Shepherd's Chachacha on Kommet, ihr Hirten

Ulrich Nehls - Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren

John A. Behnke - Rise up, Shepherd, and follow

Thomas Riegler - Jazz-Waltz on the chorale Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten etc.

Thomas Riegler - Samba on the chorale Wohl denen, die da wandeln

Gerhard Luchterhandt - … wohlauf und s(w)inge schön!“ – Charleston on Du, meine Seele, singe

Biographical Notes