Download or read book A Guide to North American Organbuilders written by David H. Fox and published by Richmond, Va. : Organ Historical Society. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Early English Organ Builders and Their Works written by Edward Francis Rimbault and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book All The Stops written by Craig Whitney and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2004-09-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, pipe organs stood at the summit of musical and technological achievement, admired as the most complex and intricate mechanisms the human race had yet devised. In All The Stops, New York Times journalist Craig Whitney journeys through the history of the American pipe organ and brings to life the curious characters who have devoted their lives to its music. From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, organ music was wildly popular in America. Organ builders in New York and New England could hardly fill the huge demand for both concert hall and home organs. Master organbuilders found ingenious ways of using electricity to make them sound like orchestras. Organ players developed cult followings and bitter rivalries. One movement arose to restore to American organs the clarity and precision that baroque organs had in centuries past, while another took electronic organs to the rock concert halls, where younger listeners could be found. But while organbuilders and organists were fighting with each other, popular audiences lost interest in the organ. Today, organs are beginning to make a comeback in concert halls and churches across America. Craig Whitney brings the story to life and up to date in a humorous, engaging book about the instruments and vivid personalities that inspired his lifelong passion: the great art of the majestic pipe organ. Hear the sounds of some of the pipe organs featured in ALL THE STOPS

Download or read book The History of the Organ in the United States written by Orpha Ochse and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-22 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration, wars, industrial growth, the availability of electricity, the popularity of orchestral music, and the invention of the phonograph and of the player piano all had a part in determining the course of American organ history.

Download or read book Booth of Wakefield Organ Builder to the World written by Paul Lindsay Dawson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Organ written by Douglas Earl Bush and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments that predated the piano. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instruments from around the world.

Download or read book A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England written by Gordon D.W. Curtis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book That Ingenious Business written by Raymond J. Brunner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Philosophy of an Organ Builder written by Estey Organ Company and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Organ written by Edward John Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modern Organ Building written by Walter Lewis and published by London : William Reeves. This book was released on 1911 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Organ Its History and Construction written by Edward John Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Organ its history and construction By E J H Preceded by an entirely new History of the Organ Memoirs of the most eminent Builders of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and other matters of research in connection with the subject by E F Rimbault written by Edward John Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England written by Gordon D. W. Curtis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs. 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. He relates the biographical details of Sweetland's family, surveys Sweetland's organ building work and explores the organ recital repertoire of the provinces. The second part of the book consists of a Gazeteer of all known organs by Sweetland.

Download or read book The Organs of J S Bach written by Markus Zepf and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in cooperation with the American Bach Society."

Download or read book The Art of Organ building written by George Ashdown Audsley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographical Memoir of William M Goodrich Organ builder written by William M. Goodrich and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodrich (1777 - 1833) was a musician, singing master, and organ-builder. He lived in Massachusetts. This biographical account tells his life story, including how the chance finding of a small book set him on the way to his organ-building career.