"Echo" from "Organ ABC" with Fingering and Pedaling by Vidas Pinkevicius

After I uploaded 10 tracks from my YouTube channel archives to Distrokid today, I thought of creating another piece for the organ. This time it was Part 5 from my cycle Organ ABC. It starts from letter E and I named it Echo.

Echo on the organ might mean two things - a separate manual on an organ with more than 2 manuals or it could be a compositional technique devised to create an echo effect.

I chose the latter. I wanted to create an effect of a dialogue between two layers of sound - loud and softer.

It is in the mode of F and I improvised it on my MIDI keyboard which was connected to the Sibelius software on my computer. After I played it, I went back and renotated the performance so that it would look legible on the score. I also changed the meter often and disposition of voices from time to time. For music in a new meter to look comprehensible I had to renotate the rhythms too - usually remove tied notes. As in the previous piece, here too I had a fun time with parallel fifths in both hands.

When this was done I printed out the score and sat down on my organ bench and played it through while pointing the camera at my fingers so that later @drugelis can transcribe the fingering from the video.

I dedicated the Echo to Pastor de Lasala, OAM (@tormus1958 on Steem) in order to show my appreciation of his relentless participation in our Secrets of Organ Playing Contest week after week.

Let me know what you think.

What will you get?

PDF score. 1 page. Beginner level.

This score is free for Total Organist students.

Good luck in your practice and let me know how it goes.