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113 Variations On Hymn Tunes arranged for Organ.

How about this for a mouth-watering concoction: Take 200 of the most regularly used hymn tunes, ask the top church music composers to work their magic on them, and gather them together in one bumper collection.

How about this for a mouth-watering concoction: take 200 of the most regularly used hymn tunes, ask the top church music composers to work their magic on them, and gather them together in one bumper collection.

Most organists like a choice between the spectacular and the traditional type of hymn arrangement and Restrained Last Verses is intended as a contrast to our highly successful collection Last Verse Extravaganza .

Most organists like a choice between the spectacular and the traditional type of hymn arrangement and Restrained Last Verses is intended as a contrast to our highly successful collection Last Verse Extravaganza .

John Adams, the composer of this easily played collection, was a pupil of C. S. Lang of Tuba Tune fame. His preludes, mostly just two pages, bear all the hallmarks of an organist who writes with affection for and understanding of his instruments.