Jackson: Three Pieces (Procession, Arabesque, Pageant) for Organ

Description

Composer's Note: In writing these pieces I had in mind certain difficulties which worry most organists from time to time; and in order to combine, as it were, business with pleasure I thought it worthwhile to concentrate upon one aspect of organ technique in each piece, even at the risk of making them a little more difficult than others in this series. In Procession the main difficulty lies in the pedals Arabesque , on the other hand could hardly have had a simpler pedal part: its object is to exercise the left hand in producing a smooth, running semi-quaver pattern Pageant with its cross-rhythms, is designed to produce well-disciplined hands and feet that can, when required, work in conflicting rhythms. I have kept the registration schemes as simple and straightforward as possible.