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'''Common Notes'''
'''Common Notes'''
Any common notes must be held, except when clarity dictates otherwise.
<ref>Rollin Smith, Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, 572-73. The Complete Organ No. 3. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 1999.</ref>


==Ornamentation==
==Ornamentation==

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Synopsis

French organist and composer

  • 1870 born in Poitiers, France
  • 1892-1900 served as assistant to Charles-Marie Widor at Sainte-Sulpice in Paris
  • 1900-1937 served as organist at Notre-Dame de Paris
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  • 1937 died in Paris

For details, see the Wikipedia article on Louis Vierne.

List of Pieces

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Background and General Perspectives on Performing Vierne Organ Works

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Registration and Organs

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See the footnote in the "Notes" section at the bottom of the page. [1]

Fingering and Pedaling

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Articulation and Phrasing

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"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."[2]

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.'"[3]


Repeated Notes

According to Henri Doyen, Vierne's student, Vierne taught the practice of Widor and Guilmant of "repeated notes losing one half of their value in moderate tempi and one fourth or one eighth in slower tempos. In ternary rhythms, cut by one one third, one sixth, or any fraction divisible by three."[4]

As for the treatment of chords, they should be "struck and released absolutely together. 'The great conductor brings in and cuts off his instrumentalists sharply; the great organist should do the same.'"[5]


Common Notes

Any common notes must be held, except when clarity dictates otherwise. [6]

Ornamentation

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Tempo and Meter

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Scores and Editions

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Recordings

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Notes

  1. This footnote was entered in the "Registration and Organs" article
  2. 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.
  3. Rollin Smith, Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, 571. The Complete Organ No. 3. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 1999.
  4. Rollin Smith, Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, 571-72. The Complete Organ No. 3. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 1999.
  5. Rollin Smith, Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, 572. The Complete Organ No. 3. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 1999.
  6. Rollin Smith, Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, 572-73. The Complete Organ No. 3. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 1999.

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