Category: ORGAN

Marc Yeats - Composer

A Book of Fire and Shadow: Sixteen Preludes for Organ

A Book of Fire and Shadow: Sixteen Preludes for Organ (2026) This collection of preludes is conceived as an interconnected cycle, in which each piece foreshadows, echoes, and transforms materials drawn from within the set itself. Through free variation and reimagining, motifs, harmonic colours, rhythmic gestures, and textural ideas recur and evolve across the sixteen…
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and here and there (2025)

Dedicated to Katia Farn Programme Note The music is inspired by a deeply personal engagement with the organ, from fairground to cathedral, drawing on distortions, memories, fantasies and inventions shaped by my experiences as a listener of organ music. Additionally, it reflects moments of direct interaction with the instrument—brief, exploratory encounters with the manuals and…
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Second Amorphic Hymn

Programme Note Dedicated to Matthew Lee Knowles Amorphic Hymns are my compositions for organ that explore the idea of composed resonance—sound shaped as much by memory and imagination as by musical material itself. They are inspired by distant recollections of hearing church music and congregational singing from outside church buildings, sometimes from a distance, as…
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hazy dimensions of numbness (2025)

Programme Note vivid forms of imagery emerge [1 of 3] hazy dimensions of numbness [2 of 3] fullness as a strengthening property [3 of 3] Dedicated to Thomas Mellan These three organ compositions stand as independent works, each with its own distinct character and expressive voice. Yet, through the shared threads of self-borrowed and transformed…
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the delightful melancholy of this place (2025)

Programme Note Dedicated to Alastair White The music is inspired by a deeply personal engagement with the organ, from fairground to cathedral, drawing on distortions, memories, fantasies and inventions shaped by my experiences as a listener of organ music. Additionally, it reflects moments of direct interaction with the instrument—brief, exploratory encounters with the manuals and…
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First Amorphic Hymn

Programme Note Dedicated to Fernando Velázquez Amorphic Hymns are my compositions for organ that explore the idea of composed resonance—sound shaped as much by memory and imagination as by musical material itself. They are inspired by distant recollections of hearing church music and congregational singing from outside church buildings, sometimes from a distance, as enthusiastic…
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vivid forms of imagery emerge (2025)

For organ Programme Note vivid forms of imagery emerge [1 of 3] hazy dimensions of numbness [2 of 3] fullness as a strengthening property [3 of 3] These three organ compositions stand as independent works, each with its own distinct character and expressive voice. Yet, through the shared threads of self-borrowed and transformed musical materials,…
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