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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
This beautiful Adagio is in the key of A-flat Major (the relative major to F minor) and the music spans | This beautiful Adagio is in the key of A-flat Major (the relative major to F minor) and the music spans three pages. Two manuals are used, which alternate back and forth in a dialogue between each other. This movement is in ternary - ABA' form. | ||
==Registration and Organs== | ==Registration and Organs== | ||
Latest revision as of 20:55, 19 April 2015
from Sonata 1 (Op. 65) by Felix Mendelssohn
Background
This beautiful Adagio is in the key of A-flat Major (the relative major to F minor) and the music spans three pages. Two manuals are used, which alternate back and forth in a dialogue between each other. This movement is in ternary - ABA' form.
Registration and Organs
The dialogue between the two manuals should be of equal strength, but contrasting in sound. Both manuals indicate pp.
Swell Manual - 8' Strings (Viole Celeste)
Great Manual - 8' 4' Flute
Pedal - 16' 8' Flute
In the forward that precedes the Sonatas, Mendelssohn gives the following suggestion for PIANISSIMO as generally implying a soft 8- foot stop by itself for the manuals and 8' and 16' stops combined for the pedal registration.
Fingering and Pedaling
Strict attention should be given to writing in fingering in order to play very legato.
Both the Kalmus and Dupré editions give suggestions of effective fingering.
The pedal does not enter until the fourth system (second page) and ends with a long tonic pedal point on A-flat.
Articulation and Phrasing
Different editions contain different phrasing marks in the score. The Novello edition has a system that shows which phrase marks are used in what editions. Refer to that edition to compare phrasing as you make your own musical decisions.
Ornamentation
No ornamentation is used in this movement.
Tempo and Meter
Adagio (Eighth Note = 100)[1]
Time Signature (3/8)
Scores and Editions
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Complete Organ Works, Volume IV, Edited by Wm. A. Little (Novello & Company) contains: Six Sonatas of Opus 65
Kalmus edition (K 03670) contains: Three Preludes and Fugues, Opus 37; and Six Sonatas, Opus 65
Marcel Dupré edition contains: Three Preludes and Fugues, Opus 37; and Six Sonatas, Opus 65
Recordings
Refer to general Mendelssohn page[1] for info on recordings
Free Online
Refer to general Mendelssohn page[2] for info on recordings
Pay to Listen
Refer to general Mendelssohn page[3] for info on recordings
http://www.classicalarchives.com/album/617145111227.html. This website allows you to purchase recordings of the entire CD or individual movements in MP3 format. Before purchasing, this website will allow you to preview the recording. Subscribers can to listen to recordings of Mendelssohn's Sonata 1 performed by various composers.
Other Resources
Mendelssohn and the Organ by Wm. A. Little (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
An Analysis of Mendelssohn's Organ Works; A Study of their Structural Features. For the use of students ([1898]) - [4]
p.6-20 contains a musical summary of what is happening in Sonata 1
Notes
- ↑ Wm. A. Little, Mendelssohn and the Organ (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 293.
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