Director of Oundle for Organists, Ann Elise Smoot, explains how the Organ Voluntary developed as a new form of organ music, in the context of the new liturgy of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century England. This video is one of 26 in a series entitled An A-Z of the Organ, filmed by the RCO team and colleagues around the UK at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown. Starting with A for Anthology and concluding with Z for ? (wait and see!), the series aims to explore various perspectives on the organ - its tonal characteristics, some of the repertoires associated…