Condensed NOH organist files for Tablet : on franciskoerber.com
  • francis
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    Hi All:

    We are singing Mass IV today for the Feast Day of St. Cecilia at the 8am.

    HAPPY FEAST DAY!

    I thought I would leave you all a small gift in celebration of our wonderful Saint!

    I was loading my ipad with noh files and thought some of you here might like my condensed versions... larger staves, sometimes solemnes markings, less page turns... I can do more if you wish... just let me know which ones.

    Also on this page is the complete set of NOH books that are optimized (smallest file size possible).

    Also I am including my complete index which is in one PDF file (all volumes)

    http://www.franciskoerber.com/

    In the main menu to THE ENDEAVORS/MUSICIAN/MY NOH ORGAN FILES
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  • Xopheros
    Posts: 71
    What is "NOH"? A file format?
  • MatthewRoth
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    He means the NOH organ accompaniment books.
  • Palestrina
    Posts: 501
    How delightful - thank you, Francis.

    With Solesmes markings, you will be saving so many of us from the reinvention of the same wheel!
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  • francis
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    How many organists here use a tablet?
  • francis
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    Does anyone remember who reengraved the entire volume 5? I would like to contact them.
  • francis
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    Here is a sample of how I would reengrave the Kyriale for organists... Solemnes markings in red. Notes closer together (as is typical in keyboard engraving).
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  • francis
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    ...and then of course the ultimate for rhythmic accuracy is to see exactly what the schola is singing... I proposed this years ago, but am revisiting the idea again... the organist uses two hands to play the accompaniment and really should not be playing the chant line at all. Right hand is in red. The chant graphic is taken from the 1961 LU. (by offering the official chant, you can then also honor the Mora Vocis... of course, if I engraved the chant it would be superimposed over the official chant engraving to maintain accuracy.)
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  • MatthewRoth
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    I find that regardless of style occasionally playing the upper note as a chord (I.e. don’t move for at least two beats) helps. If an antiphon is in mode 7, and gives the c ending, we have to play the melody on the podatus. It’s weird otherwise. But that’s much better than playing the psalm melody too. Our people can manage.
  • francis
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    I find that regardless of style

    Hi Matthew

    what do you mean by style?
  • MatthewRoth
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    NOH, Solesmes/Fontgombault, the Vatican/Italian etc. are all different in terms of the musical structure even if things like keys are common (does anyone do Kyrie de Angelis in a key other than D?) and in registration, volume etc.

    Indeed the Fontgombault style allows for freedom. The choirmaster of Triors leaves it to the accompanying organist whether he inserts the whole melody or just a note here and there, because it could be that the melody is doubled at the octave (and an octave below that if the whole choir sings outside of an incipit or solo, since the bass is normally played in the pedal too, although sometimes they play the alto instead). It might make sense to not have much or any of the melody and then you play the high note with a funky interval (Sol to Si/Ti for example), and then you keep playing it as a chord even as the melody changes, for example.
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  • OMagnumMysterium
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    does anyone do Kyrie de Angelis in a key other than D?

    Sure, I'd probably do it in the key of C (Do=G), depending on the time of day and who I'm singing with. Probably a rhetorical question, but still, let the record stand.
  • francis
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    @MatthewRoth

    I don't think any two scholas sing anything the same... ever. Our schola has increased their tempo over time, a little bit more each year. However, I do truly like the NOH accomps... I wander back and forth between and 8' flute and voix celeste/pedal for contrast.
  • francis
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    Here is a complete version of the Agnus VIII.
    missaVIIIagnus.pdf
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  • AugustBerchelmann
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    Francis I'd love to see more of the hybrid chant notation. I think that would be very useful
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