Excerpt from First Lessons in Extemporizing on the Organ Experience teaches every church organist that the ability to extemporize even in modest fashion is not only a very convenient thing, but also', very often indeed, a positive necessity. Natural aptitude and intelligent practice are the foundations of good ex temporizing, as indeed they are of good organ playing. Natural aptitude alone will not enable one either to play the organ well or to extemporize on it acceptably; one must practice extemporizing regularly, day ...
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Excerpt from First Lessons in Extemporizing on the Organ Experience teaches every church organist that the ability to extemporize even in modest fashion is not only a very convenient thing, but also', very often indeed, a positive necessity. Natural aptitude and intelligent practice are the foundations of good ex temporizing, as indeed they are of good organ playing. Natural aptitude alone will not enable one either to play the organ well or to extemporize on it acceptably; one must practice extemporizing regularly, day by day, over and over again, just as one practices the pieces in one's organ repertoire. A seventeenth-century writer (francis Quarles) puts it somewhat inelegantly, but squarely, when he writes: I see no virtues where I smell no sweat. To invent and play, on the spur of the moment and without specific preparation, an unwritten piece of music, long or short as the case may demand, conforming reasonably to the principles of musical com position, is to extemporize. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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