Organ Collection Highlights
Here you will find some highlights of the State Library's resources for organ in score, electronic, book, journal and recorded formats.
Scores
100 processionals & recessionals
Contemporary English composers
Bach's Complete organ works: a critico-practical edition
All the organ music of the great man in 8 volumes
The complete organ player
Kenneth Baker's popular series"teaches you everything you need to know in order to play modern style organ"
English organ music: an anthology from four centuries
A ten volume collection featuring music from the Reformation to the Romantic era
Samtliche Orgelwerke [von] Dietrich Buxtehude
Collected works of one of Germany's most significant organ composers
Two hundred last verses: popular hymn tunes with varied harmonies
A delight for the improvising church organist.
E-Resources
There are some electronic resources in which to find material on the organ, organ playing, organ music and related topics.
Books
The art of organ-building
Audsley's standard treatise in the field of pipe organ construction
Organ literature : a comprehensive survey
Historical survey of organ music world-wide and a comprehensive bibliography
Gazetteer of Western Australian pipe organs
Updated edition giving a comprehensive survey of pipe organs in churches across the State
A guide to organ music
Analytical material of major organ composer's works, from Frescobaldi to twentieth century figures such as Messiaen and Guilmant
The organ music of J.S. Bach
In-depth analytical studies of the master's works
Journals
Choir and organ
"...for all professionals and amateurs in the choral and organ worlds." With articles, information on international festivals and reviews.
Clavier
For organists as well as pianists
In the pipeline
Newsletter of the Organ Society of Western Australia
The organ
"A quarterly review for its makers, its players and its lovers".
Recordings
Baroque organ music
Music by Bohm, Couperin, Kerll, Buxtehude, Walond, Pescetti, Pachelbel, Sweelinck and Stanley
The complete organ works
7 disc set of the organ works of Olivier Messiaen, played by renowned exponent Gillian Weir
Organ at an exhibition
Western Australian organist Domenic Perissinotto plays arrangements works of Guilmant, Schumann and Mussorgsky
Organ spectacular
Music arranged and played by Noel Rawsthorne on the organ of Coventry Cathederal
You can also listen to tracks using the online database Naxos Music Library
Page last updated: Wednesday 20 April 2011
