KSMUS 501-2 — Practical Techniques for Service Playing

2 credits
Not offered for 2016-2017
Faculty

A comprehensive survey of the skills necessary to play the organ in church, adapting the organist’s performance ability to the church setting, where many organists are employed. Hymn-playing: musical leadership, breathing, free harmonization, interludes, bicinium, canon, fugue. Plainsong: accompanying plainsong hymns and psalms. Psalmody: Anglican chant, responsorial psalms. Choral accompaniment: ensemble, registration, period techniques, orchestral transcriptions from vocal score. Voluntaries: repertoire choice, sensitivity. Service music: traditional and contemporary.