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LUTHERAN KEYBOARD CRAFTSMANSHIP, LATE 17TH CENTURY: BUXTEHUDE (Dieterich…
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Chorale Prelude
Organ Chorale: chorale played on organ, tunes were enhanced by harmony and counterpoint. tune could serve as a chorale partita, or subject in a chorale fantasia.
Choral Prelude: emerged in the mid 17th century: a short piece where the entire melody is presented just once (chorale melody) in a readily recognizable form on organ. a single variation. prelude to usher in the chorale.
Chorale Prelude by Buxtehude: opening phrase: French influence with agrements. Last phrase: florid ornamentation including octave leaps and striking runs.
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Organ Music: Functions, Toccatas, and Preludes
Most Protestant organ music served as a prelude for something like a chorale, scriptural reading, or larger work. Often choral settings or toccatas or preludes that contained fugues. Set the key and prepared congregation to sing.
Toccatas: genre and focus on imitative counterpoint fostered by Johann Froberger (1616-1667) who studied with Frescobaldi. Series of short sections in free styles that alternate with longer ones in imitative counterpoint. ideal for virtuostic display, exuberant. Buxtehude, Praeludium in E major.
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