Note Modifications
In most music intended for organ performance, note modifications are not required. But in playing hymns, which were conceived for choral singing, modifications are often needed. This applies most commonly in the treatment of repeated notes.
The simplest way of dealing with repeated notes in hymns as you mark your score is to use the following as a basic assumption: all repeated notes are to be repeated unless you add a tie.
In the earliest stages of organ study, however, more marks (such as the commas in measures 1 and 2) may be needed to make distinctions between tied and repeated notes. Fewer marks will be needed as the eye and the brain correctly and more readily recognize and interpret repeated notes (as in measures 6 and 11, where the commas are absent).
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