Improvisation was grown up in the history of western music, which resulted in a variety of musical formation and development for many works.
Initially, choral was monophonic texture, which didn't have fixed accompaniment. Therefore, organists perfo...
Improvisation was grown up in the history of western music, which resulted in a variety of musical formation and development for many works.
Initially, choral was monophonic texture, which didn't have fixed accompaniment. Therefore, organists performed improvisation during mass and it was generalized. They improvised through new attempts based on contemporary musical formation. Accordingly, improvisation was taught to organists as an important part, which is continued until now.
As Catholicism was settled down in Korea, there has been big improvement in Korean church music. Many sorts of choral like Catholic choral, Gugak choral, authentic choral were generated and developed. Among them, Catholic choral generally used for mass gradually developed and now 4 voicing was settled down.
This study was intended to understand improvisation, which developed in the history of church music and suggest improvision of choral to be used for mass, focusing on organ choral formation by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
The paper generally classified the formations of choral into those which can be used during mass and those which can be played before or after mass. In addition, accompaniment and introduction of choral were suggested for organists to play them for mass. Organists should always make efforts for mass and play new and progressed accompaniment. Furthermore, it is expected that rituals can be more bountiful as organ improvisation is used for mass.