Why especially Bert Matter's and Peter Molenaar's "In goede harmonie" and Stephen Taylor's "The Lost Chord" methods are so interesting for a beginning keyboardist?
As an organist, it is quite a common practice to use "Liedboek. Zingen en bidden in huis en kerk" during a Dutch Calvinist Liturgy. The "Liedbook" songbook doesn't have choral settings for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, just a staff with a melody.
It is good to know how to apply the right chords properly, and how to trivially improvise over a soprano melody that the "Liedboek" provides.
Genevan psalms are the old Renaissance tunes.
Fortunately for an organist, such tunes are fine for interpreting as series of triad chords (C major, G major to mention a few)
and their first and second inversions 1 2,
played with emphasized chord 1st (tone) in a proper rhythm.
This repository is intended as collection of settings for Genevan psalms, created with Lilypond. Please fork the repository and use the lilypod files, create your own music, learn to work with Lilypond, share your knowlegde!
Please consider buying the book: "In Goede Harmonie" or "In Guter Harmonie" (German edition).
Narrow position is one of the methods how to build a chord properly.
In a "narrow position" the space between soprano (the highest pitch) and bass (the lowest) is filled with alto and tenor so that no space is actually left between soprano, alto and tenor for one more note from the triad to be used.