The Liturgical Organist, Volume 3

Use the book regularly for transposition, sight-reading and music theory

Une compilation de maîtres de l'orgue très classique et toujours moderne. Tout organiste doit posséder ce cahier de musique!

As you can see from the picture, this truly is the correct Volume Three of Carlo Rossini's "Liturgical Organist" series. Unlike the completely bogus attribution and description on the Amazon web site, Pamela and Robert Schultz have absolutely NO connection with this music!As you might expect from the word "liturgical" in the title, this music is pleasant though stodgy. Volume 3 is the first that consists entirely of "medium" difficulty compositions. They are actually pretty easy. But I've been retired a long time and am quite rusty. For me now they are challenging enough; I hope to use them to recover some of my former facility.The earliest arranger's copyright date I could find was 1940. The compositions themselves date as far back as the 16th century. With today's recorded backup tracks and electric guitars, Rev. Rossini's Preface reads like what it actually is: reflections from a long bygone era. But if you read it with the right mindset, you might gain some insight into how the previous generation felt about life and service as an organist.

Lots of short pieces for use in any traditional service. Written for organ - many have very little and easy pedaling, but there are quite a few challenging pieces also. I am a pianist who is mostly self-taught on organ, so I appreciate the variety of difficulty. They do not have titles, so in the church bulletin, I list them as "Untitled" by Composer's Name. Some are only 8 measures long, some are 2 pages. Sorted by key, if you have an aversion to lots of accidentals. LOL I also have Vol 1 and Vol 2.

Am a small church organist, (don't live among the organ pipes high in a loft) but THE LITURGICAL ORGANIST is a must for every organist to have-great short introductable pieces to introduce hymns, longer preludes & recessional pieces, modulations from one key to another ect. I plan to purchase other vols. in near future