Préambule

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from Vingt-quatre Pièces en style libre by Louis Vierne

Background

Dedicated to Albert Ribollet.

 C Major
 Two pages
 3-4 voice texture

Registration and Organs

 G.R. Fonds 8'
 Ped. Fonds 16', 8'
 Claviers accouplés. Tirasses

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

Fingering and Pedaling

 Simple, sustained pedaling
 Some manuals only
 Expression pedal

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."[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]

Ornamentation

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Tempo and Meter

 12/8, Moderato, dotted-quarter note = 48

Scores and Editions

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Recordings

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Free Online

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Pay to Listen

A Notre-Dame de Paris: Organ Works by Vierne, Pierre Moreau, $0.99 MP3 Album

Other Resources

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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.

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