Études was composed as a set of five interrelated movements in the followingorder: Prelude, Introduction and Fugue, Triptych, Chorale, and Response. The pieces are compositional as well as technical studies. The movements specifically explore certain styles and forms unique to organ music, and reintroduce these elements in creative ways. As in the traditional étude, each movement contains virtuosic technical studies, which are designed to enhance manual and pedal facility and prepare the performer for advanced repertoire.

This study represents an effort to analyze the forms used by Flor Peeters in his Thirty Chorale Preludes on Well-Known Hymn Tunes, op. 68, 69, and 70. Through this analysis it has been found that Flor Peeters has systematically used certain devices in the treatment of the cantus firmus. Furthermore, these devices can be used as a criterion in developing a classification system for the chorale preludes, which logically divide into six groups or types. The first type includes the chorale preludes in which the composition begins immediately with the first phrase of the chorale melody and continues without interruption to the end of the melody. The chorale melody is used in its entirety, the last note occasionally being sustained as an inverted organ point or organ point to form a coda. The chorale melody appears without ornamentation, but the rhythm may be subject to augmentation or diminution. The second type resembles the first type, with the exception that the chorale melody has been treated with ornamentation. Included in the third type are the chorale preludes in which the chorale melody appears in detached phrases, each phrase being separated from the next by an interlude or transition, the first phrase usually being preceded by an introduction. The chorale melody appears without ornamentation, but the rhythm may be subject to augmentation or diminution. The final note of the chorale melody may be sustained as an organ point or inverted organ point. Ornamentation constitutes the major difference between the third and fourth types. In the fourth type the chorale melody has been ornamented. The fantasia-type chorale preludes included in the fifth type make free use of the chorale melody. Entire phrases of the original chorale melody are omitted. The phrases used in the composition may appear in fragments or complete phrases with rhythmic and notational changes. The sixth type contains the chorale preludes wherein the chorale melody forms the basis of a series of variations, which constitute a partita. Each of the partitas in this type consists of an opening movement, three or five variations, and a finale. The variations are usually developed according to the specifications of types I, II, and IV. A minor consideration of this study is the harmonic devices used by Flor Peeters. Secondary chords and their sevenths, as well as parallel open fifths, are characteristic of the harmonic treatment. Like the composers of the Baroque period, Flor Peeters has composed the ornamented, figured, and the partita types of chorale preludes. In the thirty compositions considered in this study there is not an example of the canonic or the motet types. Even though Flor Peeters has not adhered to these latter types, he has made use of such devices as fugal expositions and imitation.

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The purpose of the treatise is to provide the first modern edition of one of Telemann's “Lutheran masses” and a discussion of the work in its historical, stylistic, and liturgical context. In his lifetime, Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) was one of Germany’s, if not Europe’s, most famous and most prolific composers. Though many of Telemann’s works were published by him, many are today assumed lost or remain unknown. Presented here, for the first time, is a performing edition of one of Telemann’s missae breves based on the Lutheran chorale melody Christ lag in Todesbanden. This setting is one of five in a manuscript collection in the library of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (Royal Conservatory, Brussels). Chapter One presents a survey of Telemann’s life and career, church music, and historical reception, both in his day and to the present. Because this mass setting resulted from the reform movement of Martin Luther, Chapter Two addresses the role of the mass in the Lutheran liturgy. Included in this chapter is a discussion of some of the elements Luther retained from the Roman liturgy and some of those elements which he discarded or changed, namely those elements which relate to the use of music in the liturgy. Unlike his fellow reformers Jean Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli, Luther was a lover of music and gave a prominent position to music in his new liturgy. Chapter Three focuses on the importance of music in the Lutheran liturgy, especially the significance of the chorale. Chapter Four presents the chorale melody and the manner in which Telemann employed it in this mass setting. There is also a discussion of performance considerations and suggestions. The score of the edition is included as Appendix A. / text

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-148).

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-148).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

G.F. Kauffmann exerted great, albeit disparaged influence on his contemporaries and the subsequent generation of organists and composers. Many of his works were copied and regularly performed by these musicians, including prominent composers such as J.S. Bach and J.G. Walther. Kauffmann is mostly associated with one of the most important collection of chorale preludes in the Baroque, viz. the Harmonische Seelenlust (Leipzig 1733), of which he is the composer. Among the numerous peculiar characteristics of this work are the registration indications supplied by Kauffmann himself. It is the most detailed source of registration in the entire Baroque era, consequently giving us a unique insight into the trends of combining stops during this period. Using Kauffmann’s particular style of registration, it becomes possible and even desirable to implement these suggestions found in the Harmonische Seelenlust in the works of his contemporaries. Kauffmann devised a specific system of registration for specific genres of works that are adaptable to his own works that were not supplied with registration, and to the works of his contemporaries. / Thesis (PMus (Performing Art))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Music / unrestricted