Organ pedal curriculum › Level 4 · Toe and heel
Toccata, Op.49
pedal toe-heel · pedal diff 4/5 · manual diff 4/5
Toccata, Op.49
Basil Harwood · romantic · Level 4 · Toe and heel
The staff detector confirms Toccata, Op.49 has a genuine pedal part; on the genre heuristic it reads as a toe-and-heel piece (toccata), which places it provisionally at Level 4 · Toe and heel. On John Stainer’s pedal syllabus this sits at the Toe and Heel stage: Stainer introduces the heel only once toe technique is secure, for wider and more legato pedal lines.
Why this piece teaches it
Toe and Heel: Exercises. Each Hand Separately with Feet: Exercises.
— Stainer, The Organ: A Manual of the True Principles of Organ Playing (Novello Primer, 1877; ed. 1909) (the Toe and Heel 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).