Organ Footnotes
New book & FREE streaming videos
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New book and free streaming videos by Wilma Hoyle Jensen
Legendary organist, church musician and teacher, Dr. Wilma Hoyle Jensen, has focused her lifelong career on not only improving her own keyboard techniques but on sharing her unique insights with others. She has shaped a generation of outstanding organists, teachers and church musicians around the country during her positions as Professor of Organ at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Oklahoma City University, Scarritt Graduate School, and the Blair School of Music of Vanderbilt University. St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville, Tennessee, named her Organist / Choirmaster Emerita after leading the choral and music program there for nearly 20 years. She is the recipient of many awards including the National American Guild of Organists' prestigious Distinguished Artist Award in 2016 and continues to offer recitals, workshops and masterclasses in the United States and Europe.
The lessons of a lifetime
of playing the organ and piano
Dr. Jensen’s new book is an in-depth study of natural physical gestures and musical freedom at the keyboard illustrated by Dr. Jensen with streaming videos and detailed descriptions of the physical movements and their inherent value in musical accomplishment. She was influenced by the works of renowned piano pedagogues, Tobias Matthay and Dorothy Taubman, who were preeminent in their understanding of how the hands and entire body function naturally in building keyboard technique. Throughout her long and successful career, Dr. Jensen adapted concepts to the organ that were originally developed for the piano. Organ Footnotes contains a full compilation of her expansive concepts of traditional organ methods to help keyboardists unlock their own freedom of movement through natural physical gestures and with various types of touches at the keyboard. It further explores musical freedom through informed performance practice within various periods of musical history and includes easy-to-apply suggestions for the application of each concept while practicing. Dr. Jensen’s techniques will help keyboardists learn new repertoire more quickly, accurately, and musically. The streaming video links included with the book will show Dr. Jensen up close demonstrating her technical and musical suggestions.
“…brings sparkle, electricity, dynamite and vibrance to the organ.”
Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
“...an interpretation extremely musical and brilliant … a visionary organist.”
Dijon, France
“...technically and musically an artist of the first magnitude.”
Jackson, Mississippi
“...clean, polished technique and her considered interpretation are by no means without passion. She allows, with the reverence of a genuine artist, the composer to speak for himself.”
Dallas, Texas