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Composition #5 (aka Kyrie Eleison) by Hippotaur
2 minutes 29 seconds
In 11th grade, I was a church organist, and wrote several compositions suitable to play during religious services. As a summer job in college, I was the substitute organist for the church I recorded this piece in. This piece later on acquired the "Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison" words as part of an unfinished Requiem Mass I was composing.
Performed on the pipe organ at Kirk O' The Valley Presbyterian Church, Reseda California. Recorded with a Stereo Walkman sitting on the music holder in the middle of the organ console.
© 1980 (P) 1982
Hippotaur
2 minutes 29 seconds
In 11th grade, I was a church organist, and wrote several compositions suitable to play during religious services. As a summer job in college, I was the substitute organist for the church I recorded this piece in. This piece later on acquired the "Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison" words as part of an unfinished Requiem Mass I was composing.
Performed on the pipe organ at Kirk O' The Valley Presbyterian Church, Reseda California. Recorded with a Stereo Walkman sitting on the music holder in the middle of the organ console.
© 1980 (P) 1982
Hippotaur
Category Music / Classical
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 4.57 MB
Thankx!
...one time when Hallowe'en fell on a Sunday, I played Bach's Toccata in D Minor (sounds like Dracula music) as the hip young priest entered the church to begin mass! He got a kick outta it.
I didn't have any problem playing it, since Bach said he wrote all his music "for the greater glory of God" and that piece only gained its sinister connotation after Hollywood got ahold of it!
Kev
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I know which piece you mean... I personally like that piece... My iPod has it, and I'm probably gonna wear down that bit of data first :P
And I dunno about hollywood... it sounded creepy the first time I heard it... and then I saw a movie with that music in it and thought it fit... *shrugs*
And I dunno about hollywood... it sounded creepy the first time I heard it... and then I saw a movie with that music in it and thought it fit... *shrugs*
Well...Bach's words always gave me a great excuse...especially on playing that piece!
I'll post a recording of it some time here...I have so many recordings and am rationing myself to only posting two of them a day...but I haven't digitized the Toccata yet...I think I'm waiting to make the first of new live recordings, as it is most certainly my "signature piece".
Kev
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...and I could never play any brass instrument! Where are all the notes at??? LOL
I haven't formally composed by writing or recording music in quite a long time; although sometimes I still just sit down and play whatever comes out of my fingers.
The hard part is that the part of my brain that is creating the music gets totally interrupted by the part that would somehow preserve that same music...that may change in the near future given the technology that I now have available!
Kev
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For the first part, 8' and 2' stops in the manuals, and for the ''bridge'' that's in 3 time I used more 4' and 2' and fractional stops, with one 8' as well.
Throughout I used 8' and 16' stops in the pedals, although the 16' stop didn't play on the lowest C in the pedal - that can be heard once or twice...
This was a very small pipe organ, and only had a few stops available on each keyboard and in the pedals.
Kev
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Throughout I used 8' and 16' stops in the pedals, although the 16' stop didn't play on the lowest C in the pedal - that can be heard once or twice...
This was a very small pipe organ, and only had a few stops available on each keyboard and in the pedals.
Kev
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Yes. I was only the substitute organist at that church, so I didn't want to mess with the presets that the regular organist had designated.
Also, this was a recording session where I was the only person in the church, so I had plenty of time to decide on the sounds, unlike an actual performance when the stops need to be changed quickly.
I set the two manuals up with different sounds, and then just played on one or the other when I wanted to change the sound.
Kev
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Also, this was a recording session where I was the only person in the church, so I had plenty of time to decide on the sounds, unlike an actual performance when the stops need to be changed quickly.
I set the two manuals up with different sounds, and then just played on one or the other when I wanted to change the sound.
Kev
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Im guessing your using some kind of Diapason there ? Either that or the recording distort's a little bit
Fantastic composition and it's interesting to listen to the difference between an english and american Diapason, your's being more principal and fresh sounding, and ours being more muddy sounding and warm.
Fantastic composition and it's interesting to listen to the difference between an english and american Diapason, your's being more principal and fresh sounding, and ours being more muddy sounding and warm.
Thank you!
It's been 29 years since I played that organ, and I only played it for a few months so I don't remember the specific stops it had. But I'm pretty sure one of them on the manuals was a Diapason.
But it was by far the smallest pipe organ I've ever played - or seen! I think it had only two stops for the pedals, and probably not more than four or five or six for each of the two manuals.
There is a lot of noise in the recording from the Walkman; however I think the sound of the organ is pretty much spot on and not too distorted.
It's been 29 years since I played that organ, and I only played it for a few months so I don't remember the specific stops it had. But I'm pretty sure one of them on the manuals was a Diapason.
But it was by far the smallest pipe organ I've ever played - or seen! I think it had only two stops for the pedals, and probably not more than four or five or six for each of the two manuals.
There is a lot of noise in the recording from the Walkman; however I think the sound of the organ is pretty much spot on and not too distorted.
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