ORGUE

SKU: BR.BHM-367

ISBN 9783765103674. 9 x 12 inches.

Seek (ricercare) and you will find! The little angel on the cover of the book shows the organist the way to the music he's looking for! In an incredibly time-consuming endeavor, Martin Bieri has compiled all currently available chorale-based organ works, cataloguing about 15,600 works. The bulk of the work is devoted to (chorale) melodies that can be found in the major German-language hymnals. The Ricercare Book offers concise information along with indexes of arrangements, composers, editions and publishers. Nach acht Jahren Laufzeit war es soweit: Ricercare der Sherlock Holmes des Organisten brauchte dringend eine Frischzellenkur d. h. neue Informationen und technische Updates. Das Lifting hat der CD-ROM gut getan. Ricercare saust nunmehr mit neuer Kraft (neuen Informationen) prestissimo durch die weite Datenwelt von uber 20.000 cantus-firmus-gebundenen Orgelwerken und gibt umfassend Auskunft uber Melodien Komponisten Ausgaben Bearbeitungen Verlage u. a. m.
After eight years on the beat it was finally time for Ricercare the Sherlock Holmes of the Organ to get a badly needed makeover i.e. to be supplied with new information and technical updates. The makeover did a world of good to the CD-ROM. Loaded with new info Ricercare now zips along prestissimo through the vast data world of more than 20 000 cantus-firmus-related organ works and provides comprehensive information on melodies composers editions arrangements publishers and much more.


The present edition is based on the music text of the ,,Gesamtausgabe of Robert Schumann's works edited by Clara Schumann together with Johannes Brahms and others between 1879 und 1893. This publication is almost entirely free from arbitrary alterations in the text. A few obvious errors and unjustifiable alterations of the musical text were eliminated after a thorough comparison with the first editions. Die vorliegende Ausgabe folgt dem Notentext der von Clara Schumann in Zusammenarbeit mit Johannes Brahms u. a. zwischen 1879 und 1893 herausgegebenen Gesamtausgabe von Robert Schumanns Werken. Diese Edition ist von willkurlichen Veranderungen des Textes weitgehend frei. Einige offensichtliche Irrtumer und nicht zu rechtfertigende Eingriffe in den Notentext wurden nach Vergleich mit der Erstausgabe und dem Autograph beseitigt. The present edition is based on the music text of the ,,Gesamtausgabe of Robert Schumann's works edited by Clara Schumann together with Johannes Brahms and others between 1879 und 1893. This publication is almost entirely free from arbitrary alterations in the text. A few obvious errors and unjustifiable alterations of the musical text were eliminated after a thorough comparison with the first edition and the autograph.