Soliloquy for Organ No. 7

This is my Soliloquy for Organ No. 7.  Like my soliloquies for organ No.s 2-6 and my two sets of sententiae for organ, it is composed for manuals only.  

 Edit on  2/9/2025, 8:00PM GMT: After realizing I had some notes out of range thanks to a review, I revised the piece to keep in range and replaced the score and the mp3 with the revised version.  

This is fascinating to me. You've written at least seven pieces for organ now, and, sorry, but you don't seem to know how to write for the instrument at all. I say this because organ manuals only go down to a C2, so this is literally impossible as written. You could technically reach a sound that low with pedals, but it's never written that way so an organist would be confused how to play it. (edit: and I see now that it's intended for manuals, so yeah, very much impossible to play.)

I'm curious about your musical background, because you've written so much music, more than ten times as much as me, but with all your music that I've seen, there seems to be a complete lack of understanding compositional techniques or even fundamental music theory. I don't mean this to offend you in any way either, and I'm sorry if it does. Clearly, what you write fulfills its purpose for you, and that's all that really matters, but it still is very interesting to me. 

The only real take away is that if you want a piece to be performed, make sure you study the instrument thoroughly first.

7 hours ago, ComposaBoi said:

This is fascinating to me. You've written at least seven pieces for organ now, and, sorry, but you don't seem to know how to write for the instrument at all. I say this because organ manuals only go down to a C2, so this is literally impossible as written. You could technically reach a sound that low with pedals, but it's never written that way so an organist would be confused how to play it. (edit: and I see now that it's intended for manuals, so yeah, very much impossible to play.)

I'm curious about your musical background, because you've written so much music, more than ten times as much as me, but with all your music that I've seen, there seems to be a complete lack of understanding compositional techniques or even fundamental music theory. I don't mean this to offend you in any way either, and I'm sorry if it does. Clearly, what you write fulfills its purpose for you, and that's all that really matters, but it still is very interesting to me. 

The only real take away is that if you want a piece to be performed, make sure you study the instrument thoroughly first.

 

Thanks for pointing out the fact that I have exceeded the lower range of the organ’s manuals. I had been confused with the “Scientific Pitch Notation” (SPN)’s consideration of middle C as C4 while for organs the same note middle C is considered C3. Thus I have assumed I could go down to C1 in SPN but it is C1 for organs which is 1 octave above, i.e. like SPN’s C2. I revised the piece to keep within the lower range of C2.