Organ Footnotes Video Lessons

Posture and Bench Height

Moving from Phrase to Phrase

Torso Movement and Freedom

Large Rotations and Thumb Movement

Visible Rotation Following Melodic Line

Piano Scales, Rotation, Dynamics, and Voicing

Clear Legato

Bright, Clear Legato

Legato and Over-Legato Touch

Arched Phrases

Over-Legato Passages Using Extra Motion

Vibrated Touches Developed by Matthay

Example of Arm-Vibration Touch

Schnellen, or Pulling-Out Touch

Vibrated Touches, Moving into Schnellen

Schnellen—Adding Weight on Accents

Leggiero Touch

Light-Finger Staccato

Fast Octave Technique

Detached Chords of Varying Lengths

Detached Chords and Slow, Ornamented Over-Legato

Gently Detached Chords

Toccata-style Detached Chords

Ordinary Touch of the Baroque

Dissonance in Ordinary Touch

All-Toe Pedaling and Other Aspects of Ordinary Touch

The Challenges of Trio Texture

Baroque Ornamentation

French Baroque Performance Practice

Incorporating Accents

Messiaen’s “Added Note Values”

Natural Stresses in Meter

Continuous Motion and Musical Freedom

Varying Touches and Lengths of Accents

Interpreting Chant—Detached Chords

Communicating Shapes with Chant

Exaggerating Musical Shapes

Declamation of Main Theme

Drama in Musical Expression

Arched Phrases with Descending Melodic Cadences

Pianistic Style

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