The History of the English OrganThis new standard work on the history of organs built in England between 900 AD and the present day takes full advantage of recent research and new discoveries. It describes the most significant instruments of each period together with details of their builders, set against a background of changing fashions in music and liturgy. Technical developments are described in an easily understood manner, and links with other schools of organ building are made clear for the first time. The illustrations, many of which have not been published before, show significant instruments in their architectural setting. The author's experience in organ building gives the account all the benefits of first-hand experience. Written in an elegant, entertaining and informed manner, the book is a vital and much-needed addition to current organ literature. |
Contents
Early history c9001500 | 11 |
The Tudor organ 15001570 | 26 |
The English Reformation 15361600 | 41 |
Foreign influences before 1600 | 60 |
The Laudian revival 15901642 | 69 |
Interlude the Dallams in France 16421700 | 91 |
The Restoration 16601680 | 104 |
The Glorious Revolution 16601715 | 122 |
The German System 18401865 | 232 |
The High Victorian organ 18601900 | 257 |
Progressive trends 18801900 | 284 |
The imperial organ 19001939 | 298 |
The classical revival 19391980 | 326 |
Epilogue 1980 onwards | 352 |
Guide to surviving English organs | 370 |
Glossary | 377 |
The Georgian organ I 17001765 | 148 |
The Georgian organ II 17401800 | 172 |
Interlude the chamber organ 16001850 | 194 |
The insular tradition 18001840 | 211 |
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Abbey Author's examination bass bellows Bernard Smith BIOS Journal Bourdon British Organ Builders built Cambridge Cathedral Cavaillé-Coll chamber organ Chapel Choir Organ chorus Clarion Classical Organ Clutton College compass console Cornet couplers Diapason wood Dulciana early Echo England Father Smith Fifteenth Flöte flue Freeman French front pipes Gedackt Hall Harrison & Harrison Henry Willis Hill Hope-Jones Ibid instrument John key action keyboard London manual mechanical metal Mixture Musical Opinion N. P. Mander Ltd nineteenth century Norman & Beard notes octave Open Diapason organ in St organist Oxford pallets parish church Pedal Organ pipework pitch Plate Principal Quint ranks rebuild Records of British reeds Renatus Harris Reproduced courtesy restored Rimbault Robert Dallam Salisbury scale Sesquialtera Snetzler Solo sound soundboard St Mary St Paul's Cathedral stop-list Stopped Diapason style surviving Swell Organ Tewkesbury Abbey Thistlethwaite Thomas Dallam tierce tonal tone treble Trumpet Tuba unison Victorian Organ voicing Wetheringsett William Willis's wind
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