French Baroque Registration

Baroque: no great contrasts of mood, tempo, color, texture

François Couperin, 1668-1733; Pièces d'orgue - 1696

• Plein jeu | fonds 16, 8, 4, 2 + mixture (+ bourdon)
• Plein jeu | fonds 8, 4, 2, mixture, trompettes 8, 4
• Petit plein jeu | positiv: no 16, may have reeds 8, 4
• Grand jeu | Great: bourdon, mutations, cornet, prestant 4, trompette 8, 4
• Petit jeu | same on positif - cromhorne if no trompette

As a stop, tremulant is inadequate without anything else!

Stop used to be a stop, is now a GO!

Gothic Blokwerk

The music grew out of the instrument; the wrong organ for the music will not be playing the music.

A one stop organ would be a mixture

Prohibit inequality by:

• dots over notes
• more than a pair of notes slurred togeher

or, written instructions:

• égales
• marqué
• martelées
• détachées
• également
• croches égales

Oberwerk [OB] = Hauptwerk [HW] until 19th century

bibliography:

Fenner Douglass, The Language of the Classical French Organ, New Haven, 1969.
Robert Davidson(?), "Ornaments," Graves, 5th edition, VI, page 448 (notes inégales)
Frederick Neumann, "Inégales," Harvard Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition, page 412.