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Forks In The Road: Challenges And Rewards, Quentin Faulkner
Forks In The Road: Challenges And Rewards, Quentin Faulkner
Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications
Using music as a focal point, although another of the arts might serve as well, I have discovered that the arts are a kind of camera obscura of society. Like that optical wonder, they reduce the whole of its identity-sanctions and values, sacred and secular beliefs and customs--to a faithful reflection in miniature, in living colors (Mantle Hood, The Ethnomusicologist. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982, p. xviii).
The author of this statement, Mantle Hood, is an ethnomusicologist, one who studies the music of cultures outside those in the western European tradition (his perspective is therefore a global one). If what he …
Information On Organ Registration From A Student Of J.S. Bach, Quentin Faulkner
Information On Organ Registration From A Student Of J.S. Bach, Quentin Faulkner
Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications
Despite two centuries of research into the life and music of Johann S. Bach, there is little that can be said with certainty about his organ registration practices. Aside from two short passages (quoted below) that merely assert Bach's understanding of and skill at registration, there is only J. F. Agricola's report that Bach liked reed stops. Up until now, it has not been possible to identify sources, either from Bach himself or from his immediate circle, that offer precise instructions on organ registration. The source described and translated here provides such information.
The source is an article found in …