Description
33 grand ceremonial pieces that are ideal for use at weddings, as voluntaries, or for recitals. Not all the music is loud and extrovert: together with pieces like fanfares and marches, the collection contains a sprinkling of quieter items in solemn mood.
About the Author
On retirement from a teaching career spent successively at St Paul's Boys' School, Barnes, Radley College, Oxfordshire, and Glenalmond College, Perthshire, (where he was also a Housemaster and Senior Tutor), Robert Gower worked as Organist at St Barnabas Catholic Cathedral, Nottingham, before moving briefly to the most northerly parish in the Church of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Returning to Scotland so as to be nearer to family, he is now Director of Music at Dundee Parish Church. Robert's commitment to English 20th-century repertoire is reflected through his founding and leadership of the Percy Whitlock Trust between 1981 and 2016 and in his longstanding Chairmanship of the Gerald Finzi Charitable Trust, from which he retired in 2022. He enjoys transcribing music for organ (with a wide range recently embracing both Leroy Anderson and Maxwell Davies) and in liturgical composition, completing a three-year cycle of responsorial psalms for the Church Music Society.
Reviews
This is a useful collection of 33 pieces of varying styles and character . . . As with all Oxford publications, the quality of production is superb. The music is well annotated, with editorial markings in brackets. Heavyweight paper ensures the book will last for many years. Altogether, for many organists this is a collection that will be used and reused for many years. It contains a wealth of new compositions, useful arrangments, and old favourites. It contains some challenges for the organist, but also has pieces that could be read at sight. A highly recommended investment. * Organo Pleno (was Victorian Organ Journal), April 99 *
Robert Gower has made a useful compilation of thirty one pieces, most of which are familiar but with just enough new or unusual ones to make the collection worth the additional investment . . . Printing and layout are clear and bold, with plenty of space around the stave for writing notes. * The Organ, May 98 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780193754089
Author Robert Gower
Page Count 128
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 451g
Dimensions(mm) 312mm * 233mm * 8mm
About the Author
On retirement from a teaching career spent successively at St Paul's Boys' School, Barnes, Radley College, Oxfordshire, and Glenalmond College, Perthshire, (where he was also a Housemaster and Senior Tutor), Robert Gower worked as Organist at St Barnabas Catholic Cathedral, Nottingham, before moving briefly to the most northerly parish in the Church of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Returning to Scotland so as to be nearer to family, he is now Director of Music at Dundee Parish Church. Robert's commitment to English 20th-century repertoire is reflected through his founding and leadership of the Percy Whitlock Trust between 1981 and 2016 and in his longstanding Chairmanship of the Gerald Finzi Charitable Trust, from which he retired in 2022. He enjoys transcribing music for organ (with a wide range recently embracing both Leroy Anderson and Maxwell Davies) and in liturgical composition, completing a three-year cycle of responsorial psalms for the Church Music Society.
Reviews
This is a useful collection of 33 pieces of varying styles and character . . . As with all Oxford publications, the quality of production is superb. The music is well annotated, with editorial markings in brackets. Heavyweight paper ensures the book will last for many years. Altogether, for many organists this is a collection that will be used and reused for many years. It contains a wealth of new compositions, useful arrangments, and old favourites. It contains some challenges for the organist, but also has pieces that could be read at sight. A highly recommended investment. * Organo Pleno (was Victorian Organ Journal), April 99 *
Robert Gower has made a useful compilation of thirty one pieces, most of which are familiar but with just enough new or unusual ones to make the collection worth the additional investment . . . Printing and layout are clear and bold, with plenty of space around the stave for writing notes. * The Organ, May 98 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780193754089
Author Robert Gower
Page Count 128
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 451g
Dimensions(mm) 312mm * 233mm * 8mm
