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SOME REGISTRATION SUGGESTIONS FOR THE RODGERS 35-A AND 35-D
The following guides to stop selection include manual by manual suggestions as to
basic combinations of organ voices, as well as a reference guide for interpreting the
stop suggestions of published organ music. The latter is especially important be-
cause most organ music is published with only general suggestions for registration.
This is because every organ is different in some way from the organ that the com-
poser had at his disposal. Therefore, names of some stops would be meaningless
on some instruments. The way to get to know the organ is to experiment freely with
the sormds of the instrument, and the following basic guide will help you achieve good
classic registration skills. At the end of this section will be formd several full organ
registrations, given as the basis for certain specific styles and periods of musical
practice.
PEDAL DIVISION
The term "Appropriate Pedal" often appears on suggested registrations. The sug-
gestion seems obvious at first, but Pedal stop selection is as much an art as manual
selection (probably even more, since the Pedal division must often balance dynamic-
ally with all three manual divisions).
In
most organ playing, the Pedal is simply used
to provide the formdation (bass) for manual work. The use of 16' voices provides the
subhm;monics necessary to rmdergird the manual tonal structure.
PUBLISHED SUGGESTION
1.
Light 16' Pedal
2.
Soft 16'
&
8'
3.
Basic MP Pedal
4.
Basic MF Pedal
5.
Formdations 16'
&
8
1
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SUGGESTED INTERPRETATION
16' Lieblich Gedeckt or 16' Dulciana
16' Lieblich Gedeckt or 16' Dulciana
8' Flotenbass
16
1
Bourdon or 16' Dulciana
8
1
Flotenbass
( 4
1
Spitzflote)
16' Bourdon
16
1
Dulciana
8' Flotenbass
4
1
Spitzflote
16
1
Bourdon
16
1
Lieblich Gedeckt
8
1
Octave
8' Flotenbass
4
1
Spitzflote
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