Viscount Organ Registration Tutorial: Registering Hymn Accompaniments

For the fifth tutorial in this year’s series, Francis Rumsey discusses the registration of hymn accompaniments with Jonathan Kingston. Accompanying hymns is many organists’ primary role, and feedback suggests that a number of you would like to hear a bit more about this. We’ve chosen three hymns, “Praise my soul the king of heaven”, “Dear Lord and Father”, and the more recent song “I the Lord of sea and sky”, to give us a basis for discussing things like registration of playovers, verse contrasts, word painting, and last verses. In this tutorial series Francis Rumsey and Jonathan Kingston discuss and demonstrate approaches to registration for distinctive genres and styles of organ music. Overview of the Organ Registration Tutorial Series. We’ve chosen five topics to discuss in this year’s series. In this series Jonathan plays a Viscount Regent 356 organ. 2. The second considers how to deal with the different sections of a big North German school work in the stylus phantasticus.