ComposerÕs Note: While I enjoy improvising, I donÕt practice it as much as I should, and my skills are not always reliable. (Sometimes things work, sometimes they donÕt.) For the sake of my congregation, I have over time made a collection of ÒimprovisationsÓ which IÕm confident will be effective. This collection is for any organist who might themselves in similar circumstances.
Each book contains 150 interludes. The thematic content is from three sources: hymn tunes, plainchant, and freely composed material. None of these pieces are either fast or extroverted. Tempo indications are suggestions only, as the music must be made to expand or contract as the moment may require. As it is only seldom that an interlude will be required from the most remote keys, duplicates have been selected from the more common ones. Of the 150 interludes in each book, 25 appear in two different places., organ, church, , James Woodman| | 90PAGES