Organ Technique : Modern and Early,9780195137453

Organ Technique : Modern and Early

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ISBN13: 9780195137453
ISBN10: 0195137450
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-10-27
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press Music
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Summary

The authors' new approach to learning two playing techniques offers a systematic method for mastering the modern, legato technique needed for organ music composed after 1750, as well as an articulated technique for earlier works. The authors also present useful information on accompanyinganthems and solos and on adapting piano and orchestral accompaniments to the organ.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
The Notation of Pitch and Keyboard Compass xv
Part I MODERN ORGAN TECHNIQUE
A Method of Legato Playing for Music Composed after 1750
1(2)
Manual Playing
3(71)
Preliminaries
3(2)
Position at the Console
3(1)
Playing Motion
4(1)
Depression and Release of the Key
5(5)
Legato Touch and Finger Independence
10(6)
Finger Substitution
16(13)
Studies and Short Works
23(6)
Finger Glissando
29(7)
Short Work
34(2)
Finger Crossing
36(7)
Short Works
40(3)
The Performance of Post-1750 Organ Music: Special Considerations
43(21)
Part Playing
43(10)
Articulation
53(3)
Registration: Some Fundamental Considerations
56(2)
Methods of Changing Dynamics
58(6)
Additional Compositions for Manuals
64(10)
Pedal Playing
74(98)
Preliminaries
74(2)
Shoes
74(1)
The Notation of the Pedal and Pedaling
75(1)
Position at the Console
76(1)
Position of the Legs and Feet
76(1)
Depression and Release of the Key
76(5)
Study
81(1)
Legato Touch and Foot Independence
81(16)
Alternate Toes
81(5)
Toe-Heel
86(3)
Pivoting
89(2)
Studies and Short Works
91(6)
Intervals and Figurations I
97(14)
Alternate Toes
97(5)
Toe-Heel
102(3)
Studies and Short Works
105(6)
Foot Substitution
111(9)
Substitution on White Keys
111(3)
Substitution on Black Keys
114(1)
Single-Foot Substitution
115(1)
Short Works
116(4)
Intervals and Figurations II
120(8)
Alternate Toes
120(2)
Toe-Hell
122(1)
Scales and Scale-Derived Passages
123(3)
Short Works
126(2)
Foot Glissando
128(6)
Black Key to White Key Glissando
128(2)
Black Key to Black Key Glissando
130(2)
Short Work
132(2)
Pedal Scales
134(2)
Intervals and Figurations III
136(6)
Alternate Toes
136(3)
Toe-Heel
139(3)
Additional Compositions for Manuals and Pedal
142(25)
Part II EARLY ORGAN TECHNIQUE
A Method of Articulated Playing for Music Composed before 1750
167(5)
Early Organ Technique
172(85)
Preliminaries
172(1)
Position at the Console
172(1)
The ``Ordinary Touch,''
172(10)
Hand Shifting
173(1)
Finger Skipping
173(2)
Foot Shifting
175(1)
Toe Skipping
176(1)
Repeated Notes
177(2)
Adjacent Notes
179(2)
Leaps
181(1)
Scale Patterns
182(7)
Two-Finger Scale Patterns
182(3)
Alternate-Toe Scale Patterns
185(2)
Four-Finger Scale Patterns
187(2)
Note Groupings, Meter, and Part Playing
189(14)
Meter and Articulation
189(8)
The Articulation of Note Groups in Duple Meter
197(3)
The Articulation of Note Groups in Triple Meter
200(2)
The Articulation of Compound Meters and Triplets
202(1)
Manual and Pedal Playing
203(54)
Manual and Pedal Combined
203(3)
Additional Compositions
206(51)
Part III OTHER ASPECTS OF ORGAN PLAYING 257(115)
Organs, Repertory, and Registrations: Principal Schools
258(58)
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
258(32)
Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands
258(13)
France
271(7)
Italy
278(6)
England
284(5)
Spain and Portugal
289(1)
The Nineteenth Century: The Romantic Era
290(14)
Germany
291(6)
France
297(7)
The Twentieth Century: The Modern Era
304(12)
Ornamentation
316(19)
Baroque Ornamentation
316(15)
National Schools
316(2)
The Principal Types of Graces Found in the Organ Music of Bach and His Contemporaries
318(8)
The Need for Spontaneity and Flexibility
326(5)
Embellishing Baroque Scores
331(4)
The Appropriateness of Ornamentation
331(3)
Practice and Performance
334(1)
New Techniques of Late Twentieth-Century Organ Music
335(10)
New Approaches to Rhythm
335(4)
Notated Accelerando and Ritardando
335(2)
Complex Rhythmic Organization
337(2)
New Modes of Sound Production
339(6)
Tone Clusters
339(3)
Glissandos
342(1)
Cluster Glissandos
343(2)
Service Playing
345(27)
Hymn Playing: Basic Techniques
345(15)
Preliminaries
345(1)
Romantic and Modern Hymns
346(10)
Early Hymns
356(4)
Hymn Playing: Further Considerations
360(8)
Performance Conventions
360(2)
Hymn Modulation
362(2)
Less Conventional Hymn Types
364(4)
Accompanying Anthems and Solos
368(4)
Preparation
368(1)
Conducting from the Console
368(1)
Accompanying with a Conductor
368(1)
Adapting Piano and Orchestral Scores
368(4)
APPENDIX: THE ORGAN 372(7)
Winding System
372(1)
Key Action
372(1)
Organ Pipes
372(4)
Divisions
376(1)
Registrational Devices
376(3)
List of Compositions 379(2)
Figure Credits 381

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