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from [[Vingt-quatre Pièces en style libre]] by [[Louis Vierne]]

==Background==

Dedicated to Nadia Boulanger.

  D Major
  3 pages
  3-4 voice texture

==Registration and Organs==
  G. Salicional et Bourdon 8'
  R. Flute et Gambe 8'
  Ped. Bourdons 16', 8'
  Claviers accouplés. Tirasses

==Fingering and Pedaling==
  Mostly manuals only
  Only 15 measures of pedal
  Expression pedal use

==Articulation and Phrasing==
"Legato playing is best suited to the organ for, by the very nature of the instrument, the evenness of all notes in the same register quite naturally calls for precisely connecting these notes one after the other."<ref>Louis Vierne,"Renseignements Généraux pour l'Interpretation de l'CEuvre d'Orgue de J.S. Bach," ''CEuvres pour ORgue de Bach'' (Paris: Éditions Maurice Senart, 1924) v.</ref>


Vierne stressed to make certain that the inner voices are legato and that the pedal be played legato as well.  He advised "playing the black keys 'on the very edge to facilitate, when practical, sliding onto the naturals.'"<ref>Rollin Smith, Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, 571. The Complete Organ No. 3. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 1999.</ref>

==Ornamentation==
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==Tempo and Meter==
  6/8, Andante sostenuto, eighth note = 112
  Four systems of 9/8

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==Notes==
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