Voluntary in A minor - Anonymous (18th century) | Secrets of Organ Playing Contest Week 32
This is my entry for the Secrets of Organ Playing Contest Week 32.
I'm playing Voluntary in A minor - Anonymous (18th century). This piece follows on from my current fascination with old English organ music—written for manuals only. On the organ, we call the keyboards 'manuals' to distinguish it from the pedalboard. So when a piece is written for manuals only, it means that it doesn't require use of the pedalboard.
Mr Anonymous wrote quite a vast number of compositions during his lifetime. However, this piece comes from a set of "Six Voluntaries by different masters never before printed, selected by Edward Kendall, Organist of Falmouth, Cornwall, published 1775". So it might be a fairly reasonable assumption that these six voluntaries were written by Kendall himself!
This voluntary comprises of two movements:
Adagio (slow): featuring the 8' Montre on the Swell.
Allegro (fast): featuring the 8' Bourdon and 4' Flute Harmonique on the Great.
I hope you enjoyed listening to this organ voluntary :)
! Giphy magnificent
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!giphy magnificent
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I love your phrasing on this voluntary! 😊🎹🎶❤
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That mr. Anonymus knew how to compose; he sure wrote an awful lot music... :-)
Knew how to compose but didn’t know how to write his name...
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😅
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Thank you. !giphy smile
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!giphy bravo
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Excellent performance!
Thank you.
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