Organ Technique: Modern and Early

"Organ Technique: Modern and Early"is a comprehensive guide to mastering the art of organ playing and registration. It serves the beginning student in need of fundamental instructions as well as the advanced player who requires up-to-date information on historical styles and avant-garde methods.

The authors present two playing techniques: a legato technique for music written arter 1750 and a more articulated technique for earlier repertoire. This approach allows players to adjust to the style of a composition, be it old or new, and equips them with techniques for all types of organs: tracker, electropneumatic, or electric action.

In "Organ Technique: Modern and Early" the player will also find:
-140 exercises and 13 studies for mastering modern and early organ playing.
-A detailed survey of the instruments, repertoires, and registrations of the most important schools of organ playing.
-Instruction in the realization and application of Baroque ornaments and free embellishments.
-An exploration of late-twentieth-century avant-garde techniques.
-Instruction in hymn playing, both old and new, and in hymn modulation and transposition

"Organ Technique: Modern and Early" includes forty-five newly edited, representative pieces that are carefully integrated with the exercises, and thirty-five photographs that show cases, consoles, and music of the important historical schools of organ bulding and composition.

Musicians will appreciate the union of technique and artistic insight that this valuable resource provides.

CONTENIDO:

Preface
The notation of pitch and keyboard compass

Part I. Modern organ technique: A method of legato playing for music composed after 1750

1. Manual playing
-Preliminaries
-Depression and release of the key
-Legato touch and finger independence
-Finger substitution
-Finger glissando
-Finger crossing
-The performance of post-1750 organ music: special considerations
-Additional compositions for manuals

2. Pedal playing
-Preliminaries
-Depression and release of the key
-Legato touch and finger independence
-Intervals and figurations
-Foot substitution
-Intervals and figurations II
-Foot glissando
-Pedal scales
-Intervals and figurations III
-Additional compositions for manuals and pedal

Part II. Early organ technique: A method of articulated playing for music composed before 1750

3. Early organ technique
-Preliminaries
-The "ordinary touch"
-Scale patterns
-Note groupings, meter, and part playing
-Manual and pedal playing

Part III. Other aspects of organ playing

4. Organs, repertory, and registrations: Principal schools
-The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
-The Nineteenth Century: The Romantic Era
-The Twentieth Century: The Modern Era

5. Ornamentation
-Baroque ornamentation
-Embellishing Baroque scores

6. New techniques of late Twentieth-Century organ music
-New approaches to rhythm
-New modes of sound production

7. Service playing
-Hymn playing: basic techniques
-Hymn playing: further considerations
-Acompanying anthems and solos

Appendix: The organ

List of compositions

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