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Article: THE STRAUBE CODE: DECIPHERING THE METRONOME MARKS IN MAX REGER'S ORGAN MUSIC
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- The American Organist
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- October 1, 2008
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THE STRAUBE CODE: DECIPHERING THE METRONOME MARKS IN MAX REGER'S ORGAN MUSIC, Henrico Stewen. Helsinki: Sibelius Academy, 2008. Church Music Department Publications, 30. 32 pp. ISBN 978-952-5531-38-1. Available from Ostinato Oy, Tykistönkaru 7, FIN-00260 Helsinki, Finland; www.ostinato.fi. Performers of the organ music of Max Reger (1873-1916) must either ignore or find an explanation for the composer's impossibly fast metronome markings. Henrico Stewen, a Dutch organist who matriculated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, is in the latter camp. He explains that Reger used "double-beat metronome notation"-in other words, the correct tempo is one twice as slow as indicated. That, in ...
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