Organ pedal curriculum › Level 3 · Independent toes
Théme et variations, Op.115
pedal toe · pedal diff 2/5 · manual diff 3/5
Théme et variations, Op.115
Marco Enrico Bossi · romantic · Level 3 · Independent toes
The staff detector confirms Théme et variations, Op.115 has a genuine pedal part; on the genre heuristic it reads as a independent toe-pedal piece (variations), which places it provisionally at Level 3 · Independent toes. 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: ◐ pedal confirmed from score — level still heuristic. The staff detector confirmed a genuine pedal part in the score, so the pedal writing is real (not a heuristic guess); the level itself is still placed by the genre heuristic, not individually score-graded.
Score: view on IMSLP (local copy not yet collected).