Easy organ passacaille for beginners

This piece in D minor sounds like a great choir and like a passacaille. Written at first for hands only, an optional pedal part, very easy to play has been added to give power and depthness to the music.
Sheet music at : http://www.lulu.com/content/livre-%C3%A0-couverture-souple/little-organ-book-...

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• pasacaglia
• great choir
• easy organ
• for beginner
• for pupil
• without pedal

[ReginhardVonBaasem]

Dear Sir,

it sounds like baroque style.

But I stumbled on some weak points in style baroque composers would never have done, f.e.:

A lot of 5th parallels between tenor and alto, beginning in bar 2 to 3, then in bar 4 to 5 and so on.

Later you even set octave parallels between egding voices(!).

You did not solve many 6-accords into the ground accords, f.e. in bar 4.

A baroque resolution could be:

alto stays on g till the next bar, tenor goes diatonically e, f, g, a and enters bb in bar 5.

[organcomposer]

In fact I do not totally agree with you. For //5th between bars 2 & 3, the first 5th is diminished.

Did you noticed that this piece is written to be played WITH or WITHOUT the pedal. In any case we have a music with a correct bass. Have you ever tryed composing something like that. A piece where you can remove the bass and in which the tenor part becomes the new bass. It is not easy and you must accept son non-respect of some rules.

About 6th chords resolving, it belongs to my style. JPaul

[ReginhardVonBaasem]

(continued)

Moreover in bar 5 a baroque composer would let the alto answer f, e, d, c and alto stays on c in the next bar.

So beginns bar 6 with c in alto, the 3rd in this 6-accord is not be doubled - the 6-accord is correct.

So, my question is:

You have written close enough to baroque style but you obviosly do not write stylish.

Are You on a way to find a new style, something like Neobarock?

With best regards, Reginhard von Baasem.

[organcomposer]

Hi Reginhard.

Very interesting what you wrote. You certainly do not know, but I have only studied solfegio. I learned composing by myself reading many books but I cannot remmber all the rules I have read and I do not mind. I write as I feel, often with a baroque spirit but without following some rules. This is my style. Some peoples like it, play it and ask more music. I have made many friends like this and fo me it is more important than respecting the rules of our old masters.

Jean-Paul

[ReginhardVonBaasem]

Dear Jean-Paul, no offence meant :-)

[organcomposer]

Do not worry, I do not feel offenced at all.

I really appreciate comments like yours, they will allow me to write better music.

friendly.

J-Paul

[hartleymartin]

Jean-Paul,

It certainly has a baroque feel to it, but it doesn't sound like an imitation of any one particular baroque composer. I think that you have captured the style of the period but put your own flare into it. Well done. I bought the book and I am eagerly anticipating its arrival. I shall prepare these pieces as postludes for next advent.

- Martin

[franchute63]

Merci pour ces compositions.Je suis un 'jeune' débutant de 65 ans sur l'orgue et je travaille sur vos partitions.

Roger

[GKesik]

Beautiful work...

[greyhoundfriend123]

It sounds beautiful to me.

[ReginhardVonBaasem]

Dear Jean Paul,

I know that the first 5th is diminuished - relating to old contrapunctum rules it makes it worse: never trespass from diminuished 5th to normal 5ths but feel free to go from normal 5ths to diminuished 5ths.

And yes, I have tried composing like this ever since.

I started in baroque style when I was 14, or so. My first piano piece when I was 9 (or 8... never mind) Sometimes I wrote a fugue for exercising or I improvised it.

All that was not my question:-)

Again, no harm meant