The Vesper Voluntaries Volume 1 ( Books 1-6 )

Book 1: Sixteen Voluntaries by Nicholas Heins

Interlude
Andante
Offertory
Melody in F
Melody in A Flat
Interlude
Short Voluntary
Short Voluntary
Religioso
Moderato
Interlude
Aria
Moderato
Andante (D. Stratforde)
Offertory (D. Stratforde)
March (A. Charlesworth)

Book 2: Fifteen Voluntaries by Joseph Edward Newell

Allegretto pomposo
Communion
Elevation
Andante Cantabile
Meditation
Evensong
Postlude
March
Offertoire
Church Melody
Prelude
Benediction
Pastorale
Diapason Movement
Full Voluntary

Book 3: Eleven Voluntaries by Walter Battison Haynes

Interlude
Andante
Prelude
Allegretto
Andante Grazioso
Melody in E
Interlude
Aria in F
Adagio & Canon
Minuet
Processional March

Book 4: Thirteen Voluntaries by James Charles Beazley

Prelude
Slow Movement
Bagatelle
Petite Romance
Preludio
Reverie
Prelude
Pastorale
Moderato
Idyll
Aria
Alla Marcia
Impromptu

Book 5: Thirteen Voluntaries by Arthur J. Greenish

Interlude
Moderato
Pastorale
Allegretto
Postlude
Andante
Minuet
March
Diapason Movement
Evening Hymn
Communion
Melody
Concluding Voluntary

Book 6: Twelve Voluntaries by Arthur Carnall

Siciliano
Pastorale
Prelude
Trio
Andante
Minuet
Trio
Adagio
Choral Song
Interlude
Minuet
March
Larghetto
Prelude
Melody

Zu dieser Ausgabe:
Der vorliegende Band enthält Neuausgaben von Book 1-6 der Reihe "The Vesper Voluntaries" (London: Orsborn & Tuckwood o.J.) "for the Organ, Harmonium or American Organ".

Zur Besetzung:
Neben der traditionellen (Pfeifen-)Orgel (manualiter, mit Verwendung des Pedals ad libitum) erwähnt der Verleger das "Harmonium" (das ist im englischen Sprachgebrauch das "klassische" Druckwind-Harmonium mitteleuropäischer Provenienz) und die "American Organ", genauer die "American Reed Organ", womit in Europa das in den U.S.A. erfundene Saugwind-Harmonium, das ab Ende der 1860er-Jahre seinen weltweiten Siegeszug antrat.