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Historical organ techniques and repertoire. Volume 8. Italy, 1725-1830

edited by Calvert Johnson.
Format
Musical Score
Description
128 p. of music : ill., map, facsims. ; 31 cm.
Variant title
Italy 1725-1830
Series
Organ pedagogical materials
Historical organ techniques and repertoire
Published
Colfax, NC :Wayne Leupold Editions ;Boston MA :Sole selling agent, ECS Pub.,c2004.
Contents
  • Introduction. History of Italy; The earliest organs in Italy; Liturgical use of the organ in Italy; Playing with good taste; Short octave keyboard; Editorial method; Recordings
  • Types of composition
  • The organs. Specifications and stoplists: Classical Renaissance Italian organs; Central Italian (Tuscan) Baroque organs; Central Italian (Tuscan) mid-eighteenth century organs; Central Italian (Tuscan) late eighteenth-early nineteenth-century organs; Venetian Baroque and Classical organs; Historical firsts in Italian organ design. Organ registration: Flemish influence, seventeenth century; Mid-eighteenth century; Late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries
  • Posture and hand position
  • Fingering. Sources; Principal fingers and correlation between fingering and meter; Scale passages: The systems of Della Ciaja, Prelleur, Gervasoni; The nearly modern system of Pasquali, Manfredini, and Bach/Ricci; Adjacent notes; Repeated notes; Sequences; Substitution; Five-finger position; Use of the thumb and little finger; Intervals and chords; Suspensions; Parallel thirds; Voice distribution
  • Pedaling
  • Articulation and other concerns: Eighteenth century; Doublings; Picardy third endings
  • Ornamentation. Sources; Free passagework and cadenzas; Small ornaments: Appoggiatura; Slide; Trill; Mordent; Turn; Arpeggio; Acciaccatura; Summary
  • Tempo
  • Sources: Performance practices; Major composers for keyboard instruments (modern editions); Modern anthologies; Books and articles in English
  • Kyrie versets (Missa Solemnis); Offertorio (Missa Solemnis) / Giovanni Battista Martini
  • Offertorio [II] / Giuseppe Gherardeschi
  • Grave / Carlo Gervasoni
  • All' Elevazione; Post Communio (Missa Solemnis) / Giovanni Battista Martini
  • Pastorale / Anonymous
  • Andante per la Benedizione / Gian Domenico Cattenacci
  • Sonata per organo [in F major] / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
  • Sonata III / Ignazio Cirri
  • Sonata [VII] per organo doppio concer[tat]a con trombe
  • Sonata III: Rondo grazioso [principali, e tromboncini]; Sonata VI: Siciliana [Addagio: principali e voce umana] / Gaetano Valerj
  • Sonata per organo a guisa di banda militare che suona una marchia / Giuseppe Gherardeschi
Notes
Series subtitle: An historical survey of organ performance practices and repertoire.
General editor of series: Wayne Leupold.
Introd., history, and information on organ techniques, p. 5-80; tables of fingerings, p. 43, 54.
Includes bibliographical references.
Discography: p. 10.
Publisher/plate no.
WL500013 W. Leupold
Series statement
Organ pedagogical materials Historical organ techniques and repertoire ; v. 8
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