Topic: With Organteq 2 - Like gentle rocking of a boat in water..
With Organteq 2 - Like gentle rocking of a boat in water..
"Andante tranquillo" is in the key of E major, and written in 2/4 time.
This piece is really a "Barcarolle" . This is a musical genre associated indelibly with boat travel, its intent was to musically represent the gentle rocking of a boat in water.
It has slightly irregular rhythms of water lapping against a dinghy or boat of a lighter kind creating a movement which was slightly erratic.
Enjoy the wonderful Organteq 2 !
About the composer:
Henry Marcellus Higgs (1854-1929) was the son of Marcellus Higgs (1827-1897) and Clara Tomlin. His father, also an organist, published no organ music.
H. M. Higgs worked with several music publishers and published a fairly large output of organ music.
This piece, in Andante tranquillo, is as No 6 in the series ”Twelve Miniatures”, as part of "Original Compositions for the Organ (New Series)” where it appears as No. 27. Dates from 1913.
Henry Marcellus Higgs was a British composer and performer whose early life and entire career was spent in London. His published output includes not only original instrumental, organ and sacred/secular vocal music but also arrangements of music from popular comremporary stage works both for solo piano and for ensembles !
All the best, everyone
Stig
