. The organ works of Bach. a-*^ ^^^ —Gf^. Book XVIII. contains some varied examplesof chorale fugues, the best being a pleasant andobviously youthful one on AUein Gott (page 7);the curiously impressive piece on * Durch AdamsFall (page 28), called a fugue, but really a preludein the Pachelbel style, with polyphony vocal ratherthan instrumental; the naive and genial movement,for manuals only, on ^ In dich hab ich gehoffet,Herr (page 59) ; the intimate little Das Jesulein (page 24) ; and, far and away the best of all, thefine fugue on the Magnificat, the subject beingthe first half of the Tonus P
. The organ works of Bach. a-*^ ^^^ —Gf^. Book XVIII. contains some varied examplesof chorale fugues, the best being a pleasant andobviously youthful one on AUein Gott (page 7);the curiously impressive piece on * Durch AdamsFall (page 28), called a fugue, but really a preludein the Pachelbel style, with polyphony vocal ratherthan instrumental; the naive and genial movement,for manuals only, on ^ In dich hab ich gehoffet,Herr (page 59) ; the intimate little Das Jesulein (page 24) ; and, far and away the best of all, thefine fugue on the Magnificat, the subject beingthe first half of the Tonus Peregrinus. It is workedout in four parts on the manual until the ninety-seventh bar, at which point the plainsong isdelivered in long notes by the pedals, the resultbeing a fine Coda of thirty-nine bars. Schweitzercalls this work sublime —a description thatseems over-generous until we hear it played ata good pace (the minim as unit) with a fine bodyof diapason tone, and for its final section a pedalreed able to speak through the full o
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