Organ pedal curriculum › Level 3 · Independent toes
Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733
pedal toe · pedal diff 2/5 · manual diff 3/5
Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733
Johann Sebastian Bach · baroque · Level 3 · Independent toes
On the genre heuristic Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733 reads as a independent toe-pedal piece (fugue); the score itself has not been checked yet. On John Stainer’s pedal syllabus this sits at the Use of Alternate Toes / Scale-Passages stage: An independent toes-only pedal line, still before the heel is introduced.
Why this piece teaches it
Use of Alternate Toes: Exercises. Scale-Passages.
— Stainer, The Organ: A Manual of the True Principles of Organ Playing (Novello Primer, 1877; ed. 1909) (the Use of Alternate Toes / Scale-Passages stage of the pedal syllabus).
Confidence: ⚠ heuristic — pending score check. Difficulty from genre heuristic; not yet score-verified.
Score (PDF): open / download the score — the site’s own copy, source on IMSLP.
Score
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