Making Music Improvisation for Organists

Name: Making Music Improvisation for Organists
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ISBN: 9780193860759

ISBN-10: 0193860759

ISBN-13: 9780193860759

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jan Overduin

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Keyboard improvisation is often considered the domain of the musical genius, a perception created no doubt by masters from Bach and Mozart to Liszt. The capacity to express one's musical thoughts spontaneously and coherently, however, presumes neither a virtuosic command of the instrument nor a sublime command of compositional theory. Assuming only an elementary background in harmony, each of Overduin's 32 lessons focuses on a specific harmonic, melodic, or structural topic designed to provoke experimentation and to develop improvisatory skills, starting with simple melodies and improvising on one or two chords. Subsequent exercises expand the harmonic vocabulary and incorporate a range…

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List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/31/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Introduction



Improvising Melodies



Improvising on One or Two Chords: Registration and Imagery



Thirds and Sixths



The Pentatonic Mode



Bicinium



I, IV, and V



Harmonizing Melodies



Improvising Hymns/Songs



Binary Form



Other Progressions



Suspensions and More Effective Hymn-Playing



Ostinato



Harmonizing Scales and Melodies (I)



Sequences



Chaconne



Passacaglia



Ornamenting Melodies (I)



Ornamenting Melodies (II)



Modulation



Harmonizing Scales and Melodies (II)



Reharmonizing Hymns



Ornamenting Inner Voices



Cadences



Descants



Interludes



Modulating Interludes



Canon



Rondo



Toccata



Partita



Three-Voice Fugue



Hymn-Anthems



Jean Langlais as Teacher



Cadenza for Mozart's Epistle Sonata K. 336


Notes


Bibliography


Index of Hymn Tunes