A 14-Part Feature Series as an Introduction
A 14-Part Feature Series as an Introduction
A 14-part feature series as an introduction to analysing organ sound and the art of registration using the example of the Klais organ 2016, Würzburg, University of Music (English subtitels by the University of Iowa Organ Studio)
1. The genesis of the 2016 Klais organ
2. The technical equipment of the console
3. Four sound groups
Each group has unique stops with special names
Where does the Quintatön register belong?
4. The inner workings of this organ
5. A new understanding of the organ:
Vertical understanding of sound vs. horizontal understanding of sound
6. Vocal and instrumental understanding of sound
7. Touch, articulation and dynamics
Bach’s ideal is the cantabile playing style
8. Colours and shapes
9. Three sound styles in Europe
Are they in opposition to each other or in connection with each other?
A little sound story
10. The so-called »foreign effect« and:
Why did contemporaries shake their heads when they saw Bach choose stops at the organ, but agreed with it as soon as they heard it?
11. Key sounds–Bridging registers between Baroque and Romanticism–Border regions
12. So what is the art of registration?
13. The »foreign effect« as a harbinger of the register crescendo
From the 18th century onwards, the organ took over the monasterymusic in some places.
The role of the orchestra. Was the organ the harbinger of the laterorchestral crescendo?
Or has the organ, as some claim, become a decadent imitation of theorchestra?
