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Prelude on 'Thaxted'

- Paul Randall Keith

 


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Use: Ordinary Time
Required Resources: Organ

This Prelude is structured very much like a Fantasia with four distinct sections.

After a toccata-like introduction, with a sixteenth-note right hand motion over quarter-note chords, the first section presents the hymn tune with a straighforward harmonization.

The second section, a Scherzetto, tosses the melody around, often disjointed, using 8' and 2' flutes. After considerable modulation and ample staccato, the tempo slows into the next section.

Lush strings, in four or five-part texture, sing out the melody in section three. Above this, very ingeniously on a 4' pedal flute, we hear a lyric descant.

The opening toccata material returns in the final section, eventually moving into sixteenth-note sextuplets over the melody in the pedal. Three dissonant chords resolve to a final C Major chord, not without grace note C-sharps in double pedal, though.

This is a truly engaging treatment of this well-loved melody!


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Order #: 6032
Price: $3.25




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- Organ/Instrumental
- Organ
- Ordinary Time


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