| Contents |
Organ music of the late Renaissance. The ricercar -- The canzone -- Forms of the toccata type -- The cantus firmus forms -- Spanish keyboard music of the Renaissance -- The English virginalists -- Italy. The Southern Italian keyboardists before Frescobaldi. The toccata ; The ricercar ; The canzone -- The works of Frescobaldi. The ricercar and similar works ; The fantasias of 1608 ; The ricercari of 1615 ; The ricercari from the Fiori Musicali -- The canzone ; The toccatas ; The capricci of 1626 ; The liturgical music -- Italian organ music after Frescobaldi -- France. From Attaignant to Titelouze -- The works of Titelouze -- From Titelouze to Nivers -- The French Classical school: some general characteristics -- The French Classical organ -- Types of compositions. The plein jeu ; The fugue ; Duos and trios ; Compositions for solo registers ; Compositions for flûtes alone ; Compositions for le grand jeu ; The noël -- Liturgical practices and organization of pieces into larger forms. The mass ; The suites ; Hymn settings -- Major publications and sources of the French Classical style -- England. The first third of the century. Ties to virginal music ; The fantasia (fancy) and the related forms of voluntary, verse, and offertory ; The fantasias of Bull ; The fantasias, voluntaries, offertories and verses of Thomas Tomkins ; The fantasias of Orlando Gibbons and John Lugge -- The cantus firmus settings -- English organ music at mid-century -- The last third of the century -- Spain and Portugal. The first third of the century. Aguilera ; Coelho ; Correa -- Spanish organ music at mid-century -- The last third of the century: the works of Cabanilles -- The Netherlands and North Germany. The works of Sweelinck. The fantasias ; The echo fantasias ; The toccatas ; Works based on chorale melodies and psalm tunes -- Other composers from the Netherlands -- North Germany. The first generation: the works of Scheidemann and Praetorius. The chorale settings ; The free forms -- The second generation: Tunder, Weckmann, Reincken. The free forms ; The chorale settings -- The third generation: Buxtehude, Bruhns, Böhm, Lübeck. The mature North German Praeambulum ; The canzoni and chaconnes of Buxtehude ; The chorale settings -- Middle and South Germany. The works of Samuel Scheidt. The fantasias ; Settings of chorales and Gregorian melodies -- The South-German school. The works of Froberger. The toccatas ; The ricercari and the fantasias ; The canzoni and the capricci -- Other South-German composers. Scherer ; Kerll ; Poglietti ; Speth ; Muffat ; Fisher -- The Middle-German school. Earlier composers of the school and some members of the Bach family -- The works of Pachelbel. The preludes, fantasias and toccatas ; Fugues, ricercari, and fugues for the magnificat ; Works based on the chorale -- The works of Zachow ; Buttstedt, Johann Krieger, and Kuhnau -- Glossary. |
| Abstract |
The seventeenth is the greatest of all centuries for the organ and for its literature. Never before or since has this instrument served as such an important medium of musical composition. Such composers as Frescobaldi, Cabanilles, De Grigny, the Couperins, Sweelinck, Scheidemann, Scheidt, Bruhns, Buxtehude, Froberger, and Pachelbel regarded it as their principal outlet for creative expression. In this study, the author first traces the origins of seventeenth-century styles in the keyboard music of the late Renaissance; he then devotes individual chapters to each of the important geographical styles of seventeenth-century organ music. The book's point of orientation is the manner in which each of these styles develops its own unique vocabulary and set of compositional techniques. The text is illustrated by some two hundred musical examples carefully selected to demonstrate each stylistic development. The volume concludes with a selected and annotated bibliography of readily available performances of the entire repertory. |
| Bibliography note | "A selected bibliography of editions of seventeenth century organ literature": pages 291-305. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 78001581 |
| ISBN | 0915548062 |
