Choral Song & Fugue

[emsgdh]

Dear Friends:

 

Ashamed to say that I've never learned the Fugue. Is there a preferred edition ?

Not too interested in scholarship. Want an edition edition that is well laid-out & fingered for comfortable and quick learning. Any thoughts ?

[Pierre Lauwers]

I know of this one....

 

http://www.free-scores.com/boutique/boutiq....php?clef=72364

 

Pierre

[Guest Cynic]

I recommend the E.H.Thorne version, published by Bayley and Ferguson in a volume [six Organ Pieces - S.S.Wesley]. You'll not find this new anymore, but second-hand copies turn up regularly. I also have the version from Hinrichsen's Tallis to Wesley series here, but this is not terribly helpful to play from since it reproduces the original score which doesn't actually work on 99% of the organs one actually meets.

[Guest Barry Williams]

Dear Friends:

 

Ashamed to say that I've never learned the Fugue. Is there a preferred edition ?

Not too interested in scholarship. Want an edition edition that is well laid-out & fingered for comfortable and quick learning. Any thoughts ?

 

 

I find Walter Emery's edition thoroughly practical.

 

Barry Williams

[Guest Lee Blick]

which doesn't actually work on 99% of the organs one actually meets.

 

 

...perhaps that is deliberate!

[Pierre Lauwers]

...perhaps that is deliberate!

 

.....Because of Samuel-Sebastian's will to stick to old-fashioned

british compasses -and unequal temperament-

 

Pierre

[Guest Lee Blick]

Yes, I know that full well. I was being facetious

[Pierre Lauwers]

.....Also, maybe a chance for some "music boxes"

to be reconstituted as they were, escaping the

mandatory "neo-isation" ?

(Green, Snetzler, Smith, England.....Etc!)

 

There is even some Repertoire for them !!!

Pierre