SPECTRUM MUSIC - AGO Professional Certification Requirements

	The following list of organ music is derived from materials published by the American Guild of Organists to assist organists obtain the required materials needed for certification. For additional information contact the AGO.

AGO Requirements

Bach - Concerto IV in C, BWV 595 in Bach - Complete Works V. 8 (Baerenreiter) Bach - Fugue in A Major BWV 536/2 in Bach: Complete Works for Organ (CD Sheet Music) Bach: Complete Organ Works Vol. 2 (Peters) Bach: Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasies Fugues V. 1 (Baerenreiter) Bach: Organ Works V. 3 (Novello) Bach - Orgelbuchlein Concordia edition Baerenreiter edition

AGO Requirements cont'd

Bach - Prelude in G Major BWV 541
in Complete Works for Organ (CD Sheet Music)
    Complete Organ Works Vol. 2 (Peters)
    Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias & Fugues (Baerenreiter)

Bach - 8 Little Preludes & Fugues
    G. Schirmer edition
    Baerenreiter edition

Bach - Toccata in F BWV 540
in Complete Works for Organ (CD Sheet Music)
      Organ Works V. 3 (Peters)
      Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias & Fugues (Baerenreiter)

AGO Requirements cont'd

Bach - Trio Sonata #2 in c min BWV 526 in Complete Works for Organ (CD Sheet Music) Organ Works V. 7 (Baerenreiter) Organ Works V. 1 (Peters) Biery - Elegy (Morningstar) Bloch - Six Preludes (G. Schirmer) Brahms - Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee (Peters)

AGO Requirements cont'd

Brahms - Prelude & Fugue a minor WoO9 (Presser) or in Organ Works (Henle) Bridge - Allegro ben Moderato in 6 Organ Pieces (Masters) Buxtehude - Praeludium in F Major BuxWV 145 in Organ Works V. 1 (Peters or Breitkopf) Chepponis - Melodic Gloria (GIA)

AGO Requirements cont'd

Dupre - Eleven Versets in Dans La Gloire des Invalides (Wayne Leupold) Durufle - Sicilienne (from Suite op. 5, Durand) Faure - Pie Jesu from Requiem Any Edition Kalmus Fitzsimons Franck - Panis Angelicus, ed. Rutter (Oxford)

AGO Requirements cont'd

Franck - Pastorale in Complete Works Vol. 2 (Durand, Kalmus or Wayne Leupold) Hancock - Toccata (Oxford) Haydn - Awake the Harp (from Creation) G. Schirmer Creation Vocal Sore (Oxford) Honegger - Choral (from Two Pieces) Masters

AGO Requirements cont'd

Langlais - Incantation pour un jour saint in Chorale Preludes for Easter Vol. 1 (Masters) Langlais - Miniature in Marilyn Mason Music Library Vol. 1 (Morninstar) Langlais - Organ Book (Elkan-Vogel) Mathias - As Truly as God is Our Father (Oxford)

AGO Requirements cont'd

Mendelssohn - How Lovely are the Messengers (ECS) Mendelssohn - Sonata Op. 65 #4 in Organ Works Op. 37/65 (G. Schirmer) Organ Sonatas Op. 65 (Henle) New Edition Complete Organ Works Vol. 2 (Baerenreiter) Organ Sonatas Op. 65 (Breitkopf)

AGO Requirements cont'd

Mozart - Laudate Dominum (from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore KV 339 Any Edition
available as separate octavo (Alfred)

Near - Adam Lay Ybounden (from Two Carols - Morningstar)

Near - Saint Augustine's Organbook (Morningstar)

Peeters - Thee Will I Love, My Strength, My Tower
in Hymn Preludes for the Liturgical Year Op. 100 V. 16 (Peters)

Reger - 30 Kleine Choralvorspiele Op. 135a

Peters edition

AGO Requirements cont'd

Sanders - Four Chorale Preludes (GIA) Schroeder - Sechs Orgelchorale (Schott) Sowerby - Fast & Sinister, 2nd movement from Symphony in G Major (Oxford) Sweelinck - Puer Nobis Nascitur in Chorale Arrangments #8 (Masters) Choralbearbeitungen (Baerenreiter)

AGO Requirements cont'd

Victoria - O Magnum Mysterium Any Unaccompanied Edition G. Schirmer, Chester, ECS, Walton Vierne - Vingt-quatre Pieces en Style Libre (Durand) Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 or (Masters) Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

AGO Requirements cont'd

Walton - What Cheer? Oxford in 100 Carols for Choirs Carols for Choirs 1 Separate Octavo Widor - Andante Quasi Allegretto - 3rd movement from Symphonie #5 Kalmus or G. Schirmer Wold - Trio on People Look East (from Light One Candle) Augsburg