Between 1820 and 1870 a number of influences combined to bring about a radical transformation in the design and use of English organs. This important book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during those innovative fifty years in its history. It is richly illustrated with photographs and specially drawn diagrams and contains an invaluable appendix of organ specifications. This is a documentary source book and history that will be indispensable for all those, professionals or amateurs, that have an interest in the organ.
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"It will stand for many decades as a vast quarry of information, reliably documented and clearly presented. It dwarfs all previous attempts to deal with this significant phase of organ building, and provides, for the first time, a coherent interpretation and periodization." Notes
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Between 1820 and 1870 a number of influences combined to bring about a radical transformation in the design and use of English organs. This important book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during these most innovative fifty years in its history. It is richly illustrated with photographs and specially drawn diagrams and contains an invaluable appendix of organ specifications. This is a documentary source book and history which will be indispensable for all those, professionals or amateurs, who have an interest in the organ.
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The English organ of 1820 was a lineal descendant of the instruments built in the latter part of the seventeenth century to make good the depredations of, first, religious fanatics and, then, fire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lieblich gedact, open diapason, chorus registers, dulciana cornet, flue choruses, double dulciana, composition pedals, wald flute, pedal pipes, cone gamba, quint mixtures, town hall organ, double diapason, octave clarion, relief pallet, sforzando pedal, diagonal bellows, metropolitan builders, pneumatic lever, most ambitious instruments, novel flutes, tierce mixtures, violin diapason, reed choruses, contra bourdon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Hill, Christ Church, Insular Movement, York Minster, Henry Willis, John Gray, Newgate Street, Birmingham Town Hall, Sebastian Bach, Henry Smart, Musical World, Union Chapel, All Saints, Holy Trinity, Alexandra Palace, Christ's Hospital, Edmund Schulze, Hyde Park Crescent, Royal Albert Hall, Samuel Wesley, Stop Diapason, Crystal Palace, Exeter Hall, Great George Street Chapel, Trinity College New!
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The English organ of 1820 was a lineal descendant of the instruments built in the latter part of the seventeenth century to make good the depredations of, first, religious fanatics and, then, fire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lieblich gedact, open diapason, chorus registers, dulciana cornet, flue choruses, double dulciana, composition pedals, wald flute, pedal pipes, cone gamba, quint mixtures, town hall organ, double diapason, octave clarion, relief pallet, sforzando pedal, diagonal bellows, metropolitan builders, pneumatic lever, most ambitious instruments, novel flutes, tierce mixtures, violin diapason, reed choruses, contra bourdon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Hill, Christ Church, Insular Movement, York Minster, Henry Willis, John Gray, Newgate Street, Birmingham Town Hall, Sebastian Bach, Henry Smart, Musical World, Union Chapel, All Saints, Holy Trinity, Alexandra Palace, Christ's Hospital, Edmund Schulze, Hyde Park Crescent, Royal Albert Hall, Samuel Wesley, Stop Diapason, Crystal Palace, Exeter Hall, Great George Street Chapel, Trinity College New!
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- Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) by Robin Stowell in Front Matter
- The Church of England: 1570-1640 (Seminar Studies in History) by Andrew Foster on page 339
- The Early History of the Viol (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) by Ian Woodfield in Front Matter
- Samuel Sebastian Wesley: A Life (Oxford Studies in British Church Music) by Peter Horton in Front Matter, page 177, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to the Organ (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Nicholas Thistlethwaite in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales by Russell Stinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Musical Life of the Crystal Palace by Michael Musgrave in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The House of Novello: Practice and Policy of a Victorian Music Publisher, 1829-1866 (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) by Victoria L. Cooper on page 45, and Back Matter
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