Series subtitle: An historical survey of organ performance practices and repertoire.
General editor of series: Wayne Leupold.
Introd., history, and information on organ techniques, p. 5-80; tables of fingerings, p. 43, 54.
Includes bibliographical references.
Discography: page 10.
Introduction. History of Italy ; The earliest organs in Italy ; Liturgical use of the organ in Italy ; Playing with good taste ; Short octave keyboard ; Editorial method ; Recordings -- Types of composition -- The organs. Specifications and stoplists: Classical Renaissance Italian organs ; Central Italian (Tuscan) Baroque organs ; Central Italian (Tuscan) mid-eighteenth century organs ; Central Italian (Tuscan) late eighteenth-early nineteenth-century organs ; Venetian Baroque and Classical organs ; Historical firsts in Italian organ design. Organ registration: Flemish influence, seventeenth century ; Mid-eighteenth century; Late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries -- Posture and hand position -- Fingering. Sources; Principal fingers and correlation between fingering and meter ; Scale passages: The systems of Della Ciaja, Prelleur, Gervasoni ; The nearly modern system of Pasquali, Manfredini, and Bach/Ricci ; Adjacent notes; Repeated notes ; Sequences ; Substitution ; Five-finger position ; Use of the thumb and little finger ; Intervals and chords ; Suspensions ; Parallel thirds ; Voice distribution -- Pedaling -- Articulation and other concerns: Eighteenth century ; Doublings; Picardy third endings -- Ornamentation. Sources ; Free passagework and cadenzas ; Small ornaments: Appoggiatura ; Slide ; Trill ; Mordent ; Turn ; Arpeggio ; Acciaccatura ; Summary -- Tempo -- Sources: Performance practices ; Major composers for keyboard instruments (modern editions) ; Modern anthologies ; Books and articles in English -- Compositions. Kyrie versets (Missa Solemnis) ; Offertorio (Missa Solemnis) / Giovanni Battista Martini -- Offertorio [II] / Giuseppe Gherardeschi -- Grave / Carlo Gervasoni -- All' Elevazione; Post Communio (Missa Solemnis) / Giovanni Battista Martini -- Pastorale / Anonymous -- Andante per la Benedizione / Gian Domenico Cattenacci -- Sonata per organo [in F major] / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- Sonata III / Ignazio Cirri -- Sonata [VII] per organo doppio concer[tat]a con trombe -- Sonata III: Rondo grazioso [principali, e tromboncini]; Sonata VI: Siciliana [Addagio: principali e voce umana] / Gaetano Valerj -- Sonata per organo a guisa di banda militare che suona una marchia / Giuseppe Gherardeschi