. Programme . ies. I. Allegro, F major, 44. Organ, two oboes, first and secondviolins, viola, basses. II. Andante, B-flat major. -Violins and viola pianissimo, with-out oboes. Violoncellos without cembalo and without Tutti is forte. An Adagio of eight measures brings in III. Allegro, B-flat major, 4-4. Orchestration as in the firstAllegro. The English organs for which Handel wrote were not providedwith pedal-boards. (The pedals, it is said, were invented by Lud-wig Van Vaelboke of Brabant about 1306, but they apparently werenot introduced in England until , by Snetzler in t
. Programme . ies. I. Allegro, F major, 44. Organ, two oboes, first and secondviolins, viola, basses. II. Andante, B-flat major. -Violins and viola pianissimo, with-out oboes. Violoncellos without cembalo and without Tutti is forte. An Adagio of eight measures brings in III. Allegro, B-flat major, 4-4. Orchestration as in the firstAllegro. The English organs for which Handel wrote were not providedwith pedal-boards. (The pedals, it is said, were invented by Lud-wig Van Vaelboke of Brabant about 1306, but they apparently werenot introduced in England until , by Snetzler in the GermanLutheran Chapel, London. The first English pedals were made todrag down the manual keys; the lowest pedal was thereforeplaced below the lowest manual keys.) Furthermore Handels organ parts were as a rule only was a melody, there was a figured bass. The harmony wasfilled in by the organist. When he came to the words organs adlibitum, he could improvise, and as Handel was a master of this. The comfort and long service you enjoy in wearingthe Boston Garter are the result of our fixed policy— Quality First GEORGE FROST COMPANY. Makers. BOSTON 631 art, his interpretation of his concertos owed much to his own skillin improvisation. These concertos were for the theatre, or concert use. They servedas entractes when his oratorios were performed; at the beginningof an act as a rule; sometimes in the middle of one and so in someof his manuscripts these words are written in pencil after an ariaor chorus: Segue il concerto per 1 organo (The concerto for the organ follows). « . Sir John Hawkins, who heard Handel play the organ, gave adescription of his methods: When he gave a concerto his method in general was to introduceit with a voluntary movement on the diapasons, which stole on theear in a slow and solemn progression; the harmony close-wroughtand as full as could possibly be expressed; the passages concatenatedwith stupendous art, the whole at the same time be
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