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A Guide to the Pipe Organ

for Composers

and Others

Publications

 

This Important Book

 

  • traces keyboard playing from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century

  • discusses all the instruments - organ, harpsichord, clavichord, piano

  • quotes from letters, diaries, reviews, and method books

  • contains full chapters on Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt

  • includes major sections on great performers and composers from Frescobaldi and Couperin to Debussy
    and Rachmaninoff

  • belongs in the library of every keyboard performer and teacher

 

This book is a model for an investigative approach to keyboard  playing

…Harald Vogel

…a boon for all up-to-date keyboard players…Christopher Hogwood

 

Available from Hinshaw Music, Inc. 

A New Method Book by Sandra Soderlund 

 

  • presents three different kinds of organ touch with illustrated instructions on how to execute them

  • includes an illustrated guide to efficient and accurate pedal technique

  • draws on Soderlund's years of experience as a performer, teacher, and scholar

  • takes a practical approach to organ playing, presented in a clear and concise way 

 

Order from Subito Music

 An Annotated Edition

 

  • The edition includes an extensive Preface on eighteenth-century performance practices. 

  • Commentaries on each movement provide an excellent guide for students and teachers.

 

The light touch of Sandra Soderlund's writing…belies some careful thought and circumspect experience. The music and its sources, the instruments, fingering, tempo, ornaments and articulation are summarized, and each piece is discussed in turn, with generous illustration and useful lines of approach for the learner.

The Organ Yearbook.

 

Available from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc.

A Special Edition of These Popular Teaching Pieces for Organ

 

  • The edition includes an extensive Preface on eighteenth-century performance practices. 

  • Commentaries on each movement provide an excellent guide for students and teachers.

 

Dr. Soderlund's handsomely produced volume presents the text with a well-pitched introduction, specific remarks, fingerings and partial phrasings, and as such does its job for the young organist very well.…the edition deserves to be consulted by teachers, students and specialists alike.

The Organ Yearbook.

 

Available from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc.

An Introduction to French Classic Music

 

  • Extensive Preface on the French Classic style, including material on the organs, the performance technique, the ornamentation, and the dance rhythms

  • Commentaries on each movement with realizations of all ornaments

  • Every movement fingered

 

 Clérambault's suites in the first and second tone were a good choice, being charming music that raises all the necessary questions, useful, therefore, for a whole range of music of the French school.

The Organ Yearbook. 

 

Available from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc.

Delbert Disselhorst– It is not only a good basic introduction to the instrument for composers, but also for beginning organ students, and even for church committees involved in purchasing an instrument.

 

Daniel Pinkham – A model of clarity and precision. Soderlund draws on her skills both at scholarship and performance to communicate the essentials.

 

Libby Larsen – The guide is the next best thing to having a fine organist in the room with you while you work. It is a wonderful resource.

 

William Albright – This is a most welcome tract that packs a surprising amount of information in a compact space. The next stage for a composer would be to go to scores and instruments. The index, itself, is a great idea.

 

Pamela Decker – Sandra Soderlund's guide is the most concise, easily understandable description of the organ and its possibilities that I have encountered in my experience as a performer, composer and teacher.

 

Available from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc.

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