Historical Organ Techniques and Repertoire Vol. 17 Spain 1550-1650
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This is a series of volumes, each of which deals with a specific
national school of organ music within a specific historical period (Late
Medieval, Renaissance, 16th and 17th century North German, Bach, 18th
century German, 16th–18th century South German, 16th–18th century
Spanish, 16th–18th century Italian, 16th–18th century English, 16th–18th
century Dutch, German Romantic, French Romantic, English Romantic,
American Romantic, the Late Romantic Orchestral Organ in England and
America, and Modern Organ Techniques).
The first portion of each volume
contains a preface that discusses all relevant aspects of organ
performance practice: (1) organ specifications and registration
practices, (2) hand positions, (3) fingering systems, (4) meter and
articulation, (5) ornamentation, (6) rhythmic alteration practices, (7) a
bibliography, (8) a list of original sources and organ tutors, (9) a
list of modern editions, and (10) definitions of the types of
compositions that were used by that national school of composers. These
are arranged in a teaching format.
The second portion of each volume
contains attractive and appropriate organ music arranged in a graded
order of difficulty, with some of the easier compositions partially or
completely fingered, pedaled, ornamented, registered ,and rhythmically
altered according to the practices in use at the time and place the
music was written. Some of the music is for manuals only, and some for
manuals and pedal. It is the intent of this series to explore in some
depth the tremendous breadth and variety of styles of music and
performance practices that exist for the organ from the last six
centuries.
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