Author: Lyndesay Graham LangwillPublisher:
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Category : Barrel organ
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Church and Chamber Barrel-organs: Their Origin, Makers, Music and Location
Author: Lyndesay Graham LangwillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barrel organ
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Church and Chamber Barrel-organs: Their Origin, Makers, Music and Location
Author: Noel BostonPublisher: 19 Melville Street, Edinburgh : Lyndesay G. Langwill
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Category : Barrel organ
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600–1830
Author: Michael I. WilsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351545744
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The first edition of The English Chamber Organ was published in 1968. This new, revised edition takes into account the considerable research into chamber organs that has taken place over the last thirty years. Much of the book has been completely rewritten and expanded, and it includes a number of organs not detailed in the first edition. As its revised title suggests, this new edition covers foreign-make imports as well as British-made organs that were sent overseas. Part one comprises a series of chapters that cover the history of the chamber organ, its origins and development. Part two provides a general introduction to the construction of organs, while part three gives detailed descriptions of 196 British chamber organs, with information on their location, specifications, design, and suggestions for further reading. As a domestic instrument the chamber organ was often perceived to be as much a piece of furniture as an item of musical equipment. The Chamber Organ in Britain offers an assessment of the organ as both a musical instrument and as a decorative icon.
"The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600?830 "
Author: Michael I. WilsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351545736
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The first edition of The English Chamber Organ was published in 1968. This new, revised edition takes into account the considerable research into chamber organs that has taken place over the last thirty years. Much of the book has been completely rewritten and expanded, and it includes a number of organs not detailed in the first edition. As its revised title suggests, this new edition covers foreign-make imports as well as British-made organs that were sent overseas. Part one comprises a series of chapters that cover the history of the chamber organ, its origins and development. Part two provides a general introduction to the construction of organs, while part three gives detailed descriptions of 196 British chamber organs, with information on their location, specifications, design, and suggestions for further reading. As a domestic instrument the chamber organ was often perceived to be as much a piece of furniture as an item of musical equipment. The Chamber Organ in Britain offers an assessment of the organ as both a musical instrument and as a decorative icon.
A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England
Author: Gordon D.W. CurtisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317187024
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs, mostly for churches and chapels in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, but also for locations scattered south of a line from the Wirral to the Wash. Gordon Curtis places this work of a provincial organ builder in the wider context of English musical life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. An introductory chapter reviews the provincial musical scene and sets the organ in the context of religious worship, public concerts and domestic music-making. The book relates the biographical details of Sweetland's family and business history using material obtained from public and family records. Curtis surveys Sweetland's organ- building work in general and some of his most important organs in detail, with patents and other inventions explored. The musical repertoire of the provinces, particularly with regard to organ recitals, is discussed, as well as noting Sweetland's acquaintances, other organ builders, architects and artists. Part II of the book consists of a Gazetteer of all known organs by Sweetland organized by counties. Each entry contains a short history of the instrument and its present condition. Since there is no definitive published list of his work, and as all the office records were lost in a fire many years ago, this will be the nearest approach to a comprehensive list for this builder.
Barrel Organ
Author: Arthur W. J. G. Ord-HumePublisher: South Brunswick, N.J. : A. S. Barnes
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The Making of the Victorian Organ
Author: Nicholas ThistlethwaitePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663649
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
This important 1990 book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during the most innovative fifty years in its history.
The History of the English Organ
Author: Stephen BicknellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521654098
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This 1996 book describes the history of organs built in England from AD 900 to the present day.
Studies in English Church Music, 1550-1900
Author: Nicholas TemperleyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100094767X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Nicholas Temperley has pioneered the history of popular church music in England, as expounded in his classic 1979 study, The Music of the English Parish Church; his Hymn Tune Index of 1998; and his magisterial articles in The New Grove. This volume brings together fourteen shorter essays from various journals and symposia, both British and American, that are often hard to find and may be less familiar to many scholars and students in the field. Here we have studies of how singing in church strayed from artistic control during its neglect in the 16th and 17th centuries, how the vernacular 'fuging tune' of West Gallery choirs grew up, and how individuals like Playford, Croft, Madan, and Stainer set about raising artistic standards. There are also assessments of the part played by charity in the improvement of church music, the effect of the English organ and the reasons why it never inspired anything resembling the German organ chorale, and the origins of congregational psalm chanting in late Georgian York. Whatever the topic, Temperley takes a fresh approach based on careful research, while refusing to adopt artistic or religious preconceptions.
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