Description

• Editor: Jean-Baptiste Robin (1976-)
• Instrumentation: Organ
• Binding: Paperback
• ISMN: 9790560163574
• Size: 8.8 x 12.1 inches
• Pages: None

Description

The five organ pieces in this volume come from a manuscript preserved in Berkley (USA). This source, less known than the Montreal organ book, also contains Lebègue’s Third Organ Book (1685). It consists of 4 hymns, Ave Maris Stella , Ave verum , Pange lingua , Veni creator , and a sequence, or prose, Victimæ Paschali.

There is a strong presumption that these organ pieces, first attributed to Lebègue, then to Boyvin, were composed, according to the analysis of the ornaments, in the circle of Jacques Boyvin and Gaspard Corrette, perhaps in Rouen. Probably written for convents, the organ must have been a two-manual instrument of small dimensions.

The figured bass of the first verse of the Victimæ Paschali is a common practice of organists at this time; Jean-Baptiste Robin offers here a four-voice production inspired by the full-play of the Ave Maris Stella and the Ave verum.