Welcome to the wonderful world of the Organ. As you know the organ can produce wonderful sounds. The beauty of the organ is that it can produce a wide variety of tone colors. This is achieved through knowing your instrument. AGO Headquarters has produced 30 short YouTube videos to help new organists become more acquainted with the organ.
The New Organist Page gives links to various web pages that contain suggestions and instruction. This page lists some of the web links to the AGO Headquarters information and links to other collected sources.
Information available on the AGO Headquarters web page.
- Go to the AGO Headquarters web page, www.agohq.org/
- Under the “EDUCATION” menu item, put the cursor on “New Organist Pages” then click on the item of interest. (The first two items “Lessons for the New Organist” and “The New Organist” contain most of the information). There are lots of good suggestions on this page.
- Note: The link for "Lesson 16 DIY: Reharmonizing Your Hymns" may or may not work. This link works – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK71ESz979s&index=15&t=20s&list=PLSJ9JGlhsPJuklW5F3yEQSXhpJzPgAJcL
- “30_New Organist Lessons (with links revealed)”
Information available collected by Kenneth Talbot.
Ideas on Registration for ways to introduce and present Hymns.
- Artistic Organ Registration by Ross Ellison.
- Organ Registration: How to Build Organo Pleno By Vidas Pinkevicius (organist in Lithuania): “Organ Registration Organo Pleno"
- List of YouTube videos that demonstrates the stops of the organ, how they are used, and the playing of Hymns: “Organs registration YouTube"
- Organ Registration by Dr. Ina Grapenthin: "Registration"
From a Richard Elliot workshop: “Ten Secrets of Organ Playing Sucess”
How to Sing Hymns by John Wesley: “Singing Hymns”
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through Brigham Young University have assembled a large collection of information that can help. This is available from the following link: “The New LDS Organist.”
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