KSMUS 501-2 — Service Playing

1 credit per semester
Fall and Spring
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. Covered in the survey are the following:

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.