. The organ works of Bach. often in a formthat makes it appear forbiddingly difficult, it isby no means easy as laid out by Naumann, butthe player is encouraged by being met half-way, aswell as by the clearness of the appeal to the eye. Among the Passiontide preludes are four canonsof great interest and effect. That on O LammGottes, unschuldig ( O Lamb of God all Holy ),begins as a double canon, but after the first THE LITTLE ORGAN BOOK 129 few bars resolves itself into a canon at thefifth above between tenor (pedal 8-ft.) and free parts are beautiful examples of thelong-drawn sinuous
. The organ works of Bach. often in a formthat makes it appear forbiddingly difficult, it isby no means easy as laid out by Naumann, butthe player is encouraged by being met half-way, aswell as by the clearness of the appeal to the eye. Among the Passiontide preludes are four canonsof great interest and effect. That on O LammGottes, unschuldig ( O Lamb of God all Holy ),begins as a double canon, but after the first THE LITTLE ORGAN BOOK 129 few bars resolves itself into a canon at thefifth above between tenor (pedal 8-ft.) and free parts are beautiful examples of thelong-drawn sinuous melodies of which Bach seemedto have an inexhaustible supply. Here, as in thecanons already discussed, we find the phrases ofthe chorale usually ending on a discord. Eventhe final cadence has an element of surprise owingto the keynote F with which the leading voice endsbeing taken as the third of the relative minor, andsustained while the second voice and the free partseffect a plagal cadence : (Tenor prominent,)A
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