Sonata No. 2 for Organ—PPM01301

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Prelude on “Amazing Grace”—PPM01323 Sonata No. 2 Fughetta on a Soggetto Cavato—PPM01309

Lift High the Cross (arr.)—PPM01327

O God, Our Help in Ages Past: Fanfare, for Organ Recitative and Hymn—PPM01135

Lau, Robert Fanfares and Toccatas on ‘Engelberg’— PPMO1240 COPY

Lind, Robert Concerto in D—PPM01303

Children of the Heavenly Father—PPM01210

Powell, Robert Three Palm Sunday Preludes on Gregorian Chant Melodies—PPM01330 Harvest Festival: Four Organ Preludes on LindsayNOT Lafford Thanksgiving Hymns—PPM01239

Weidner, Raymond Cortege: Intrada, Arioso, Finale—PPM01132 Organ, Brass quintet, Timpani and Percussion Invocation—PPM01146 DO for Organ

paraclete press P.O. Box 1568, Orleans, MA 02653 1-800-451-5006 www.paracletepress.com Dr. Lindsay Arthur Lafford

Dr. Lindsay Arthur Lafford, Professor Emeritus, was born in Gloucester, England, in 1912 and served as chorister in Hereford Cathedral from 1922 to 1929. He then became an organ scholar there and assistant of Sir Percy Hull, D. Mus., until 1935. In that year he left England to assume the positions of Organist and Choirmaster of St. John’s Cathedral, Hong Kong, and conductor of the HK Philharmonic and Chorus.

In 1939 he was invited to the U.S.A. to teach at Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr Colleges, serving also as University Organist and Director of Music in the Chapel at Princeton. Following service in the United States Navy during World War II, Lafford was a member of the faculties of several colleges and universities —and organist of St. John’s Cathedral, Jacksonville, Florida—until retiring from the University of Miami in 1994.

His extensive conducting career has included eight significant premières of works by Harold Darke, Gordon Jacob, Sir George Dyson, Gustav Holst, and Sir Edward Elgar (“Coronation Ode”). In 1954 he conducted the American première of Vaughan Williams’ Hodie, the composer’s last choral composition.

He holds the degree Doctoris in Litteris Humanoribus and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (plus the Choirmaster’s Diploma), a Fellow of Trinity College, London, and of the American Guild of Organists, and a Diplomate of both the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. He is the current Lord of the Manor of Ridley, Northumberland, England,COPY a Title created by King Henry III in the year 1230. Lafford has held the Title since 1998, when it passed to him from the family of the late Queen Mother Elizabeth, of England.

Program Note

This work is, in a sense, autobiographical. I was born in Gloucester, England, and my ancestors came from that pre-Roman part of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire that embraces Stonehenge and even earlier Avebury. In the first two movements, I’ve tried to NOTreflect this ancient heritage. Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in the village of Down Ampney in that same area, and direct forbears of mine came from a hamlet scarcely more than a mile distant. I’ve paid homage to this in the third movement by quoting Vaughan Williams’s hymn tune “Down Ampney,” tied in with a Welsh folk tune to acknowledge the part of my ancestry emanating from Wales.

Sir Edward Elgar was born in Worcester, a scant twenty-eight miles from Gloucester, and lived for a time in Hereford where my mentor for thirteen years at the Cathedral, Sir Percy Hull, was a longtime friend of the composer. I experiencedDO the honor of performing music of both Elgar and Vaughan Williams under their own direction, and, in fact, conducted the American première of the latter’s last choral composition. In the fourth movement of my sonata, I’ve hinted at the Elgarian influence that was inescapable in my youthful days.

—Lindsay Lafford Lord of Ridley

Paraclete Press sheet music is available at www.paracletepress.com 16 accelerando 60 for my family Sonata No. 2 for Organ Gt. I. Prelude

Lindsay Lafford, Lord of Ridley

+ Reed = 88

Faster = 100 Gt. & Sw. 63 Manual

16' & 8' & Gt. to Ped.

Pedal

5 COPY Pomposo 66 rall. molto allargando = 76 NOT

pesante 10

rall. molto 69 DO Full

17 50

Sw. COPY

20 53 NOT

Slower = 76 56 23 DO rall. Solo

PPM01301 PPM01301 14 poco rall. 3

35 26

poco rall. 29 a tempo 38

COPY a tempoa tempo 41 33

NOT

allargando poco 37 rall. 44 DO cresc.

PPM01301 PPM01301 4 13

II. Elegy 24 Lindsay Lafford, Lord of Ridley Very freely = 84 Solo clarinet

Manual legato Sw.

Pedal 27

6 Sw.

COPY 30 11 Solo

NOT

15 32

DO Sw.

12 20

Sw. Gt.

15 piu mosso = 112 24 rall.

Gt.

Gt. COPY 18 accelerando 28

cresc. NOT

Faster = 96 21 32 DO

PPM01301 PPM01301 6 11

36 rall. IV. Finale

Lindsay Lafford, Lord of Ridley Contemplatively = 66

Manual Sw.

Tempo I da lontano 41

Pedal

Sw. Str.

5 COPY with tranquillity = 44 Solo

Sw.

NOT 9 49 DO rall.

PPM01301 PPM01301 10 7

44 III. March Lindsay Lafford, Lord of Ridley

Alla marcia = 116

Manual Gt.

48 legato

Pedal

5 COPY

52 senza rall.

Solo Reed

9 NOT 56 DO Gt.

segue PPM01301 PPM01301 8 9

13 29

17 33

COPY

21 36 senza rall.

NOT

40 25 DO

legato

PPM01301 PPM01301 8 9

13 29

17 33

COPY

21 36 senza rall.

NOT

40 25 DO

legato

PPM01301 PPM01301 10 7

44 III. March Lindsay Lafford, Lord of Ridley

Alla marcia = 116

Manual Gt.

48 legato

Pedal

5 COPY

52 senza rall.

Solo Reed

NOT 9 56 DO Gt.

segue PPM01301 PPM01301 6 11

36 rall. IV. Finale

Lindsay Lafford, Lord of Ridley Contemplatively = 66

Manual Sw.

Tempo I da lontano 41

Pedal

Sw. Str.

5 COPY with tranquillity = 44 Solo

Sw.

9 NOT

49 rall. DO

PPM01301 PPM01301 12 5

12 20

Sw. Gt.

15 piu mosso = 112 24 rall.

Gt.

Gt. COPY 18 accelerando 28

cresc. NOT

Faster = 96 21 DO 32

PPM01301 PPM01301 4 13

II. Elegy 24 Lindsay Lafford, Lord of Ridley Very freely = 84 Solo clarinet

Manual legato Sw.

Pedal 27

6 Sw.

COPY 30 11 Solo

NOT

15 32

Sw. DO

35 26

poco rall. 29 a tempo 38

COPY a tempoa tempo 41 33

NOT

allargando poco 37 rall. 44 DO cresc.

PPM01301 PPM01301 2 15 Grandioso, bravura 14 47

17 50

Sw. COPY

20 53 NOT

Slower = 76 56 23 rall. DOSolo

PPM01301 PPM01301 16 accelerando 60 for my family Sonata No. 2 for Organ Gt. I. Prelude

Lindsay Lafford, Lord of Ridley

+ Reed = 88

Faster = 100 Gt. & Sw. 63 Manual

16' & 8' & Gt. to Ped.

Pedal

COPY 5 Pomposo 66 rall. molto allargando = 76 NOT

pesante 10

rall. molto 69 DO Full

Copyright © 2013 by Paraclete Press, Orleans, MA 02653 All rights reserved. Coral Gables, Florida 1993 PPM01301 Revised, Arizona 2008 PPM01301 Concert/Gen. paraclete press PPM01301 $11.25 Selected Organ Works Published by Paraclete Press

Campbell, Bruce Variations on St. Columba—PPM01131

Halls, David Sound the Trumpet: March for Organ— PPM01214

Lafford, Lindsay Sonata No. 2 for Organ—PPM01301

Prelude on “Amazing Grace”—PPM01323 Sonata No. 2 Fughetta on a Soggetto Cavato—PPM01309

Lift High the Cross (arr.)—PPM01327

O God, Our Help in Ages Past: Fanfare, for Organ Recitative and Hymn—PPM01135

Lau, Robert Fanfares and Toccatas on ‘Engelberg’— PPMO1240 COPY

Lind, Robert Concerto in D—PPM01303

Children of the Heavenly Father—PPM01210

Powell, Robert Three Palm Sunday Preludes on Gregorian Chant Melodies—PPM01330

Harvest Festival: Four Organ Preludes on Lindsay Lafford NOT—PPM01239 Thanksgiving Hymns

Weidner, Raymond Cortege: Intrada, Arioso, Finale—PPM01132 Organ, Brass quintet, Timpani and Percussion DO Invocation—PPM01146 for Organ

paraclete press P.O. Box 1568, Orleans, MA 02653 1-800-451-5006 www.paracletepress.com