Organ Music for Ascension and Pentecost

Organ Pipes

Below you will find suggestions for organ music based on some familiar tunes. All the tune names are listed in alphabetical order, followed by hymn title, composer, publisher, and a letter that will tell you whether the piece is easy, medium, or difficult (E, M, D). In most hymnals you will find a tune name index. If you look up the tune names you will find what hymns are sung to it. 

 

ASCENSION
Tune Name   Title of Collection E/M/D Composer Publisher
DARWALL'S 148th      
  ■ A Joyful Noise E Jordan Broadman Press
  ■ 36 Short Preludes and Postludes on Well-known Hymn Tunes, set of 3 E/M Willan Edition, Peters
  ■ The Parish Organist, Fleischer, ed., part 1 E/M Miles Concordia
  ■ Six Hymn Preludes, book 1 M/D Whitlock Oxford
  ■ Ten Hymn Tune Voluntaries, book 1 E Coleman Stainer & Bell
  ■ Hymn Preludes for the Liturgical Year, vol. II M/D Peeters Edition, Peters
   
DIADEMATA
  ■ Sing and Rejoice, vol. 4 E Krapf Sacred Music Press
  ■ Hymn Preludes for the Pentecost Season M Held Concordia
  ■ A Little Christian Year E Wyton C. Fischer
   
DUKE STREET
  ■ 5 Festive Preludes on Easter Hymns M Bender Concordia
  ■ Preludes and Postludes, vol. 1 E Held Augsburg
  ■ A Joyful Noise E Jordan Broadman Press
  ■ The Parish Organist, Fleischer, ed., part 1 E Wienhorst Concordia
  ■ Toccatas!…ed. David Hegarty M/D Martin Lorenz
  ■ Saint Cecelia Series M Mead H. W. Gray
   
LLANFAIR
  ■ Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes E Karvonen Arvon
  ■ Sing and Rejoice, vol. 3 E Krapf Sacred Music Press
  ■ All Glory, Laud, and Honor (Man.) E Johnson Augsburg
   
   
PENTECOST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
Tune Name Title of Collection E/M/D Composer Publisher
GRAFENBERG
  ■ Music for the Service E Krapf Augsburg
   
MELITA
  ■ Hymn Preludes for the Liturgical Year, vol. 13 M Peeters Edition, Peters
   
MORECAMBE
  ■ Hymn Preludes for the Church E Young Flammer
  ■ Ten Hymn Preludes E/M Willan Edition, Peters
   
VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS
  ■ Chorale Preludes by Masters of 17th and 18th Centuries, Buszin, ed. M Pachelbel Concordia
  ■ Four Koraal Preludes E/M Dragt Ars Nova
  ■ Hymn Preludes for the Pentecost Season E Held Concordia
  ■ Sing and Rejoice, vol. 1 E Krapf Sacred Music Press
  ■ Ten Chorale Improvisations, set 5 E Manz Concordia
  ■ Veni Creator Spiritus Partita M/D Nystedt Norsk Musik-Forlag - Oslo
  ■ Orgelchorale, a Collection E Scheidt Barenreiter Verlag
  ■ The Church Organist's Golden Treasury, vol. 2 D Bach Ditson
  ■ Ausgewahlte Werke M Scheidt Edition, Peters
  ■ Orgelchorale M Schroeder Schott & Sohne