Louis-Claude Daquin_Francis A. Davis - French Noels for Organ

Organists and keyboard players in search of appropriate music for the Christmas season will welcome this rich selection of noels, or carols by three renowned 18th-Century French organ composers, Louis-Claude Daquin, Jean-FrancoisDandrieu and Claude-Benigne Balbastre. Each composition is a set of variations on a French carol popular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The music is highly ornamented in the French classical style and moderate toadvanced in difficulty. Reprinted from authoritative editions.

CONTENTS

• A major achievement
• A minor rumble
• Bathtime
• Beam in
• Beefing it up
• Bloozee
• Blue sea
• Bluey
• Busy
• De blues
• Deelightful
• Deep Blue
• Feeling flat
• Freebee blues
• Gee Whiz
• Gem
• Hamster blues
• I'm singin' a song
• Jazz Waltz
• Jazzier waltz
• Katie's blues
• Keep swingin'
• Making hay
• Paul's blues
• Pinky blues
• Saymineff
• Seam
• Show 'em
• Swingin' Along
• Swingin' some more
• Tickets, please
• What shall we do?