Ten Bagatelles for Organ

<p>This volume includes eleven divertissements in various forms suitable for recital teaching or church use. They range in duration from 1-1/2 to 4-1/2 minutes and in difficulty from easy to challenging.</p><p>Three Celebratory Toccatas composed in the centuries-long tradition as playful and flamboyant demonstrations of performance agility can serve variously as striking overture bold interlude or exuberant recessional.</p><p>Presage and Anachronous Fugue are melodramatic impressions of texts from John Donne's <em>Meditation XVII</em> and Charles Baudelaire's <em>Danse Macabre</em> respectively.</p><p>Four Friendly Pieces were compiled for four fellow organists first performed in a 2007 recital by the composer.</p><p>Looks Like Rain was composed by Chak Man Andrew Yip for string trio. It has been adapted for organ for this edition.</p><p>Lastly is a transcription of Handel's Entrance of the Queen of Sheba with optional pedal. This new transcription retains the lightness and lilt of Handel's original.</p><p>All pieces can be played with satisfying effect on a typical 2-manual church organ but scale well to larger organs for enhanced drama and dynamism. The book is printed on high-opacity 70# (103gsm) paper.</p>