The Liturgical Organist [FE 7658]

The simple fact that church organists, in general, today are inclined to adopt music of a more serious type, is certainly gratifying: for, it reveals a happy awakening of their liturgical consciusness and a realization of their artistic apostleship. The purpose of the present publication is to provide the average organist with an orderly collection of liturgical compositions for church use and for possible performance even on the smallest pipe-organ or reed-organ. The following considerations about the purpose of the organ in church will explain the usefulness of this and similat collections (*); they also may help to enlighten, stimulate and persuade those who are still among the "timid souls"