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| Sandra Soderlund (Hinshaw) |
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Organ Technique: An Historical Approach
Chapters on earliest Fundamentum
Reviews technique for Spanish, Italian, English, Sweenlinck/N. German, French Classic, Bach, Lemmens
Good for early fingerings, ornaments, performance practice
Not for beginners |
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Introduction to Organ Playing in 17th and 18th c. Style
Focusses on fingering, articulation, pedaling |
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| Harold Gleason (Prentice-Hall) |
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Method of Organ Playing
Influential (esp on Organ Tutor)
Designed to teach proficient pianists to play the organ
Introductory sections on registration, historic registration
Section on ornaments in various styles
16th c. fingering section
Discusses practice techniques
Contains a good thorough set of pedal exercises
Section on hymn playing |
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Hymn Studies for Organists
Locally published
3-staff hymns with fingering, pedaling, and breaks all marked
Completely focussed on hymn playing, including variety techniques |
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| J.J. Keeler and E. Donnell Blackham |
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Basic Organ Technique and Repertoire
pub Jackman
Manual and pedal exercises, focus on fingering techniques
Excellent literature collection no longer in print? |
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Hymns Marked for Organ
3-stave hymns with fingerings |
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| George Ritchie and George Stauffer |
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Organ Technique, Modern and Early
Oxford University Press
Very thorough
Fingering techniques
Pedal exercises
Early organ technique section
Great section on principal schools of organs, repertoire, and registrations
Ornamentation
Some treatment of 20th c issues (rhythm, tone clusters, gliss)
Service playing ideas
Choral acc. and choir conducting from the console
Adapting piano and orchestral scores to organ
Appendix about organ anatomy basics |
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The Organist's Manual
Norton
Technique for manuals and pedals, including fingering techniques
Brief and more difficult exercises, moves fast
Excellent literature collection
Short sections on hymn playing, anatomy, articulation, fingering, ornamentation |
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Breaking Free (Brillhart)
John Shannon First Improv book, 2 volumes on 17th-18th c style
Jan Overduin Making Music, First Improv for organists
Jan Bender Improvisation for Beginners
Denise Lanning In the Beginning, An Encounter with Improvisation
Dupré of course |
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Making Music: First Improv for Organists
Hymn-based approach
Using hymn tunes in counterpoint
Working with intervals
Nonharmonic tones
Embellishments |
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Covered by Sandra Soderlund
1512 Arnold Schlick Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten
1525 Hans Buchner Fundamentum
1565 Thomás de Sancta Maria Treatise
1578 Hernando de Cabezón
1593 Girolamo Diruta Il Trasilvano
1609 Adriano Banchieri Conclusioni nei suono dell'organo
Examples of fingering by John Bull, John Redford, Orlando Gibbons, William Byrd
Fingerings from Sweelinck, Scheidemann, and Samuel Scheidt
1665 Guillaume Nivers
1688 André Raison
1818 Johann Christian Rinck Practische Orgel-Schule
1862 Jaques Lemmens École d'Orgue |
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