Emily Maxson Porter, Painter

This site will most likely disappear in the next month or two. If you are at all interested in any organ music which you have not yet downloaded, I'd recommend doing so as soon as possible.

This page contains downloadable PDF files of organ music. The music is free to download, print, share and perform, but is still under copyright; you must leave the copyright notice on any printed or shared copies. 

To view the music, click on the name of the tune you are interested in.  (As you hover over the link, the name of the text that I associate most closely with that tune appears.)  When the pages appear, you can download or print them using the tools supplied by Adobe.

A recording of The Wheels in the Fire, from Visions of Ezekiel (see below under Concert Works), is available on the CD Volume I: Sacred Inspirations, performed by Sarah Simko. You can find out more about this CD at  https://www.sarahsimko.com/volume-i-sacred-inspirations.

My music background is 32 years as organist at various Lutheran churches, 5 years as music instructor and professor at Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota and Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia.  I've had organ music published by MorningStar, Augsburg-Fortress, Concordia, Alfred, and Hinshaw.  I was winner of the AGO Organ Composition Competition in 2002 (What Wondrous Love Is This, O My Soul, premiered by Alan Morrison and published by Hinshaw) and was commissioned to write a piece for the 2006 National Convention in Chicago (People, Look East!, premiered by Aaron David Miller and published by MorningStar).   I Sing the Birth, a setting for SATB and harp of a Ben Jonson text, was a winner of the 2000 Welcome Christmas Carol Contest, premiered by VocalEssence, Philip Brunelle conducting.  I studied organ with Paul Manz, Heinrich Fleischer, and Robert Glasgow, and composition with Dominick Argento, Paul Fetler, Jan Bender, and Alex Lubet.

Emily

Chorale Preludes

AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON -- see SUFFERER
AR HYD Y NOS (ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT)
BALM IN GILEAD
BURLEIGH
CHRISTE, DU LAMM GOTTES (manualiter)
CHRISTE, DU LAMM GOTTES (trio)
CONVERSE
DEJLIG ER DEN HIMMEL BLAU
DEO GRACIAS
DIE GÜLDNE SONNE (easier: chorales 1, 2 & 3, variation 2) 

DIE GÜLDNE SONNE (more difficult: variations 1, 3 & 4) 
DUNLAP'S CREEK 

ELLERS
EVENTIDE
FOUNDATION
FREU DICH SEHR
GETHSEMANE
HANOVER 
HANSON PLACE 
HERZLIEBSTER JESU
HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING
IN BABILONE
INNOCENTS
ISTE CONFESSOR
ITALIAN HYMN (MOSCOW)
JESU KREUZ, LEIDEN UND PEIN
JESU, MEINE ZUVERSICHT
KREMSER
LLANFAIR
LIEBSTER JESU, WIR SIND HIER
LORD, REVIVE US
MENDELSSOHN in G          MENDELSSOHN in F
NAAR MIT ODE
NEW BRITAIN
NOEL NOUVELET
O LAMM GOTTES -- see WERE YOU THERE
O QUANTA QUALIA
O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN  
SLANE
ST. CHRISTOPHER -- see WEARY LAND
ST. CLEMENT
ST. CRISPIN        
ST. DENIO
STEPHANOS
STILLE NACHT
SUFFERER and AN WASSERFLÜSSEN BABYLON
TERRA PATRIS
THE FIRST NOWELL
UN FLAMBEAU
VREUCHTEN
WALTON
WEARY LAND and ST. CHRISTOPHER 
WERE YOU THERE and O LAMM GOTTES
WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET (prelude)  
WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET (aria)  
WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET (fugue)  

Concert works
 
FANTASIA ON DEEP RIVER  
FANTASIA ON GABRIEL'S MESSAGE  
VISIONS OF EZEKIEL: THE WHEELS IN THE FIRE  
VISIONS OF EZEKIEL: THE LOFTY CEDAR  
VISIONS OF EZEKIEL: SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL  
VISIONS OF EZEKIEL: WATERS OF THE TEMPLE  
AT THE ROUND EARTH'S IMAGINED CORNERS (organ and trumpet)  
     TRUMPET PART