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Part A. Bach's registration practices and preferences: general observations. Knowledge of organ registration ; Peculiar manner of combining stops ; Playing in accord with the Affekt of the text ; Necessity of copious, steady wind, and for gravity ; Spacious layout of organ chests ; Clarity and prompt speech of large pipes ; Preference for reed stops ; Agricola's comments on merits and faults of Silbermann organs -- What do the organs available to Bach tell us?. Eisenach: Georgenkirche ; Altenburg: castle chapel ; Naumburg: Wenzelskirche ; Other middle German organs ; Organ building in central Germany after Bach -- Part B. Selecting and prioritizing sources in chapters III-V. Sources providing general principles of registration or comments on registration. Musicae mathematicae hodegus curiosus (1687) / Andreas Werckmeister ; Erweiterte und verbesserte orgel-probe (1698) / Andreas Werckmeister ; Musicalische handleitung, Anderer Theil (1706/10; 1721) / Friedrich Erhard Niedt/Johann Mattheson ; Der critische musicus (1739) / Johann Adolph Scheibe ; Musica mechanica organoedi (1768) / Jacob Adlung ; Anleitung zu der musikalischen gelahrtheit (1758) / Jacob Adlung -- Sources providing specific stop combinations or remarks on the use of certain stops. Ausfuhrliche beschreibung der grossen neuen orgel zu Gorlitz (1704) / Christian Ludwig Boxberg ; Disposition of the renovation of the organ at St. Blasius's (1708) / Johann Sebastian Bach ; Die in der Garnisonkirche zu Berlin neue orgel (1726) / Johann Friedrich Walther ; Registrations for the castle church at Lahm, 1732 ; Der volkommene Kapellmeister (1739) / Johann Mathheson ; Gottfried Silbermann's suggestions for registrations on his organs at Grosshartmannsdorf (1741) and Fraureuth (1742) ; Der critische musicus an der Spree (1749) / Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg ; Information on organ stops and registration in Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Historisch-kritische beytrage (1758) / Johann Friedrich Agricola ; Deutliche anweisung zum General-Bass (1772) / Christoph Gottlieb Schroter -- Sources providing registration instructions applied to specific pieces of organ music. Registration indications found in works by Bach and Johann Gottfried Walther ; Registrations found in Georg Friedrich Kauffman's Harmonische Seelenlust (1733-36) ; Registrations found in four sets of chorale variations by Daniel Magnus Gronau (ca. 1730-47) -- Part C. Change of manuals. |
