Allegro #2 (Three Short Postludes)

Three Short Postludes from around 1966 and dedicated to Barbara Laski.

Compare these with the Three Short Pieces dedicated to Sally Slade Warner that share two of the same titles - Maestoso and Andante Marziale.

It is interesting and maybe frustrating that the music of Titcomb does not appear to have Opus numbers or composition dates easily available.

All the organ music by Titcomb is on ISMLP

The music of Everett Titcomb (1884-1968) occupies a unique niche in the catalogue of sacred organ and choral works by 20th-century Anglican composers in the United States. His compositional voice was clearly influenced by the Bostonian giants of his youth (Eugene Thayer, Dudley Buck, George Chadwick, Horatio Parker--who's mother once had Titcomb as a border) as well as his affinity for French music; yet at the same time his work is informed by his vast knowledge and understanding of plainchant and the polyphonic style of the 15th and 16th century Italians. An Anglo-Catholic who spent fifty years nearly to the day (1910-1960) as organist and choirmaster at Boston's Church of St. John the Evangelist in Bowdoin Street, his best organ works are based on plainchant tunes making them of more value to the Roman Catholic organist of the time than to the majority of Episcopalian ones and some of his best polyphony is in the form of Latin motets which while used at St. John's and other Anglo-Catholic parishes were perfectly at home sung at a Roman Mass.
Notes by Agnus_Dei