This complete book on Organ pedalling by Anne Marsden Thomas supports organists from their first encounter with the pedalboard through to the achievement ofvirtuosity. In this comprehensive guide the technique of Organ pedalling is broken down into thirty seven chapters each of which introduces a different aspect of pedalling technique with clear explanations and colour photographs. There are hu…

Oxford Service Music for Organ: Manuals and Pedals Book 1 was winner of the Music Industries Association's Best Classical Publication 2011. This is a major collection of Organ music for students players and church musicians of all levels and abilities. Compiler and editor Anne Marsden Thomas has drawn on her long experience of teaching and playing to select the most attractive tuneful repertoi…

This is a major collection of Organ music for students players and church musicians of all levels and abilities. Compiler and editor Anne Marsden Thomas has drawn on her long experience of teaching and playing to select the most attractive tuneful repertoire in two new sets of graded anthologies one set (3 volumes) for manuals only the second set (3 volumes) for manuals and pedals. Within eac…

This is a major collection of Organ music for students players and church musicians of all levels and abilities. Compiler and editor Anne Marsden Thomas has drawn on her long experience of teaching and playing to select the most attractive tuneful repertoire in two new sets of graded anthologies one set (3 volumes) for manuals only the second set (3 volumes) for manuals and pedals. Within eac…

A recording by Anne Marsden Thomas of all of the works featured in A Graded Anthology For Organ Book 5.

The third book of graded pieces by Anne Marsden Thomas. This collection contains lively three-voice movements simple four-part pieces and some slow moving five-part textures. Registration presents a wider variety of challenges including more manual changes than in Book 2. Inclusion of pedals offers useful confidence-building in location of notes and co-ordination with hands. Demands on pedal tech…

This is a superb collection of pieces for solo Organ. Following from the repertoire presented in Book Four the pieces in this volume offer plenty of trio textures busy but comfortable pedal parts and reasonably adventurous registration. There are also many opportunities to use the Swell pedal.This book has been selected and edited with comprehensive study notes by Anne Marsden Thomas. An audi…

Paperback-Graded Keyboard Musicianship provides graded and integrated exercises for developing five core skills at the keyboard: figured bass score-reading transposition harmonization and improvisation. Book 1 assumes Keyboard ability of Grade 1 ABRSM standard and covers up to Grade 5 while Book 2 covers Grades 6 to 8.

A Graded Anthology for Organ Book 3

Grades 2-5-Oxford Bach Books For Organ is a 5-volume graded series of Organ music composed by J. S. Bach and arranged by Anne Marsden Thomas. This varied collection includes the essential pieces in all genres including choral preludes fugues toccatas and trio sonata movements alongside several of the composer’s lesser known works. Each volume contains a general introduction for players …