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Daily Listening Assignments ~ July 3, 2020

Friday, July 3, 2020 by Mary O'Connor | OCMS

 

 

toccata-d-minor

 

Johann Sebastian Bach's towering monument of organ music, with its deep sense of foreboding, will forever be associated with Halloween.

Get a free copy of the sheet music at IMSLP or borrow a copy from the O'Connor Music Studio.  I have this arranged for organ, piano, duet, 2-piano, simplified...

It's also available in Piano Maestro, Piano Pronto Encore and Coda

If you want this in a book with other Bach transcriptions, amazon has this: Toccata and Fugue in D minor and the Other Bach Transcriptions for Solo Piano, arranged by Ferruccio Busoni.

Here, Virgil Fox performs it on his Allen Digital Touring Organ.


 

Diane Bish plays the Massey Memorial Organ at the Chautauqua Institution and talks about this instrument.


 

Animated organ:


Glass harmonica


Accordion


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