Fascination: Organ Improvisation (Paperback)
Stoiber, Franz Josef
Stoiber Fascination Organ Improvisation
A Study and Practice Book
Franz Josef Stoiber, organ professor and organist at Regensburg Cathedral, has decided not to present a conventional improvisation tutor here. Instead, he offers a multi-faceted reader and workbook containing useful methodical and pedagogical reflections, e.g. on cultivating a feeling for sound and training responsiveness. It also features a wide range of practical exercises for improvising in various styles, all reflecting his years of experience as a teacher and performer.
This guide to organ improvisation has the potential of becoming a standard work in the training of today’s organists.
- A new approach to organ improvisation
- Includes many practical exercises and music samples
- German/English text
- Spacious attractive layout
Contents
- Thoughts on Methodology and Didactics
- 1. Just Play
- 1.1. White keys – black keys
- 1.2. Further ideas for Just play
- 2. Stylistic Period 17th / 18th Century
- 2.1. Harmonic and compositional basics
- 2.2. Figuration
- 2.3. Playing the melody in different voice parts: alto-C.F.
- 2.4. Introduction to musical form
- 2.5. Large forms
- 3. t / Stylistic Period 19th Century
- 3.1 Harmonic basics
- 3.2 Introduction to musical form
- 4. Stylistic Period 20th / 21th Century
- 4.1. Post-Romanticism – Impressionism
- 4.2. Olivier Messiaen
- 4.3. German Modernism (Hindemith, Genzmer, Schroeder) – Neomodality
- 4.4. Improvisation themes
- 4.5. Improvisation on free-tonal themes