Recent European research aims to find better ways to reduce or eliminate problems that exist both in the field of “scaling,” or pipe dimensioning, and in “voicing,” meaning the process by which the pipes are given their proper sound character
From manuscript sources, the author has reconstructed the specification of the Cavaillé-Coll house organ of the Princesse de Polignac, who commissioned the Poulenc Organ Concerto as it was for the premiere, December 16, 1938
This month’s column is devoted to answering questions from readers; they concern one basic point—how can it be possible for students to work effectively on pieces that are “too hard”
Notes on a score—those squiggles and symbols—are the recipe, to be translated by the musician, through the instrument, into the magic that is audible music
