Organ Literature: Biographical catalog

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Scarecrow Press, 1995 - Organ music - 922 pages
This third edition is a basic textbook on the development of pipe organ composition in geographically diverse schools. Its nineteen chapters include charts of organ composers and a historical background of contemporary events and figures for each organ composition school. Chapter bibliographies cover readings published in the seventies, eighties, and early nineties. A listing of Bach organ compositions with pagination of various editions is also included.

Contents

Tablatures Manuscripts and Earliest Published
1
1600 1750
29
9
71
1800
82
11
144
18001900
152
Other European Schools of Organ Composition
257
1700 1994
283
Organ Works of Bach
307
Bibliography
328
Index
364
About the Author
392
About the Author
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About the author (1995)

Corliss R. Arnold is Emeritus Professor of Music at Michigan State University and former Director of Music at Peoples Church, East Lansing, Michigan.

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