Selected Compositions

Most of my pieces listed below have links to downloadable PDFs. I hope you enjoy playing them—either from your own printed copies or from your favorite electronic music device. (My current favorite electronic device is the forScore app on my large iPad.)

A significant number contain revisions from the original versions published in paper format.

Nine Meditations on Christmas Carols for Organ (Orem, UT: Wellspring Music, 2010)

1. It Came upon the Midnight Clear (tune: Carol). First published in The Organist. Dayton, OH: Lorenz, November/December 2006.
2. Once in Royal David’s City (tune: Irby). First published in The Organ Portfolio, v. 71, no. 2, p. 67-69. Dayton, OH: Lorenz, November/December 2007.
3. Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (tune: Zlobie). First published in The Sacred Organ Journal. Dayton, OH: Lorenz, November/December 2005.
4. O Little Town of Bethlehem (tune: St. Louis) First published in The Organist’s Library, v. 42, p. 67-69. Dayton, OH: Lorenz, 2007.
5. I Wonder as I Wander (tune: I Wonder)
6. See amid the Winter’s Snow (tune: Humility)
7. Silent Night (tune: Stille Nacht)
8. Away in a Manger (tune: Cradle Song)
9. Away in a Manger (tune: Luther’s Cradle Hymn)

Award-Winning Preludes on Hymn Tunes for Organ (Orem, UT: Wellspring Music, 1994)

1. Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee (tune: St. Agnes) (Honorable mention, 1986 Joel Hills Johnson Music Contest).
2. Away in a Manger (tune: Luther’s Cradle Hymn) (1st place, 1987 Joel Hills Johnson Music Contest).
3. Lead, Kindly Light (tune: Lux Benigna) (2nd place, 1988 Church Music Contest).
4. Did You Think to Pray? (tune: Stockbridge) (2nd place, 1989 Church Music Contest).
5. Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning (tune: Divinity) (1st place, 1990 Church Music Contest).
6. Prelude and Canon on “God Loved Us, So He Sent His Son” (tune: Margaret) (2nd place, 1991 Church Music Contest).
7. How Gentle God’s Commands (tune: Dennis) (1st place, 1992 Church Music Contest).
8. A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief (tune: Duane Street) (Award of Merit, 1993 Church Music Contest).
9. While of These Emblems We Partake (tune: Aeolian) (Special Recognition, 1994 Church Music Contest).
10. I Am a Child of God (tune: Child of God).
11. The Lord Is My Shepherd (tune: Forsaken).
12. Come, Come, Ye Saints (tune: All Is Well).
13. Come, O Thou King of Kings (tune: Sanford).

More Preludes for Organ

• America (tune: My Country, ‘Tis of Thee)
• Nearer, My God, to Thee (tune: Bethany)
• Come, Ye Disconsolate (tune: Consolation)
• More Holiness Give Me (tune: My Prayer)
• Should You Feel Inclined to Censure [Or, Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy] (tune: Lower Lights)
• Sweet Is the Work (tune: Douglass)
• Danny Boy (tune: Londonderry Air)
• In Memory of the Crucified (tune: Gailey)

Other Compositions

Other Music

Books

• Beethoven’s Organ Works: A Study. Orem: Wellspring Music, 2016. ISBN 978-1-329-80129-5. Available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Lulu.com.

Articles

• “Beethoven’s Organ Trios: Authentic or Spurious?” Diapason 68 (July 1977) 1, 8-10.
• “The L.D.S. Hymnal, Views on Foreign Editions: The Japanese Hymnal.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 10 (Spring 1975/76) 53-54.

Awards/Prizes

• 1968: First place, Ricks College hymn writing contest: “O Jesus, Crowned with Glory.”
• 1973: de Jong Organ Award, Department of Music, Brigham Young University
• Church Music Contest, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
  • 1986: Top entry, instrumental category: “Prelude on ‘Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee'”
  • 1987: 1st place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: “Prelude on ‘Away in a Manger'”
  • 1988: 2nd place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: “Prelude on ‘Lead, Kindly Light'”
  • 1989: 2nd place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: “Prelude on ‘Did You Think to Pray?'”
  • 1990: 1st place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: “Prelude on ‘Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning'”
  • 1991: 2nd place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: “Prelude and Canon on ‘God Loved Us, So He Sent His Son'”
  • 1992: 1st place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: “Prelude on ‘How Gentle God’s Commands'”; honorable mention, anthem/hymn arrangement division: “Come unto Me”
  • 1993: Award of Merit, instrumental division: “Prelude on ‘A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief'”
  • 1994: Special Recognition: “Prelude on ‘While of These Emblems We Partake'”

Employment/Other Musical Activities

• 1973-76: Graduate (teaching) assistantships in music theory and comprehensive musicianship, organ pedagogy, musicology, and library acquisitions (music), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
• 1974: Music engraver, Sonos Music Resources, Orem, UT
• 1977: Intern, Music Library, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 1977-81: Assistant Professor, Music Cataloger, Online Cataloging Supervisor, University Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 1978-83: Suzuki piano teacher (private studio), Lincoln, NE. Faculty member at semi-annual Suzuki Piano Workshops sponsored by the School of Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 1993-2021: Founder, Wellspring Music, Orem, UT
• 1996-2003: Member, General Music Committee, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Music Education

• Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (B.A. music theory, 1973; M.A., musicology, organ, 1976)
• Master’s Thesis: Beethoven’s Organ Works (1976)
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (M.S., library science, 1977)

Miscellaneous

• Hymns by Key, Arranged by Hymn Number
• Hymns by Key, Arranged Alphabetically