The postlude yesterday was an except from a passacaglia by Buxtehude. The whole piece is almost eight minutes long. I played a one-minute episode from it. A happy, major, get-up-and-go section. If you play it on you tube (click on it above) the section I played begins at 3:35. It seems that one minute is about the right length for a postlude.
Let's break this down a bit. A passacaglia is a piece of music where a simple melody is played on the pedals and repeated over and over and the keyboards do a lot of fancy stuff on top. Buxtehude was born about 1637 and died 1707 (12 years before the Herr House was built in Lancaster County). Both Handel and Bach visited him to study with him.
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