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| NEW! Easy-to-Read Guide for Students, Teachers, Professionals and the rest of us! $39.95 |
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| Just exactly why IS Fred Swann smiling at the tiger on top of the console? $17.25 |
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by James E. Frazier Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Musicby James E. Frazier is the most comprehensive biography in any language. James E. Frazier traces Duruflé’s musical training, his studies, and his career. Frazier also examines the career and contributions of Duruflé’s wife, the formidable organist Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier. $62.95 |
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| Winfried Topp and OHS Member Uwe Pape have collected and published comprehensive data on the organs in and around the city of Bremen, Germany. Based on data from the Orgeldatenbank Berlin (Berlin Organ Database) (ORDA) and the research of Fritz Piersig (in whose memory the volume is dedicated), this book contains stoplists, comprehensive historical information, and approximately fifty color photographs of organs throughout Bremen and its suburbs, arranged alphabetically by city name. Although the volume is entirely in German, the stoplists are easily understood by non-speakers. Those with a sparse understanding of German will find the data moderately easy to decipher with the aid of a dictionary.  German language 472 pages, softbound. $29.95 |
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| A landmark survey of the innovative period from 1820 to 1870 in British organbuilding, this volume embraces major church, cathedral, and concert organs built or influenced by such figures as William Hill, Dr. A. G. Hill, Henry Willis, Henry Smart, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, and others. $65.00 |
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| NEW! Jelani begins a series of theatre organ arrangements! $34.95 |
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| Quentin Faulkner explores registration of Bach’s works as well as other compositions of the period, examines several relevant organs and provides a compilation of related Baroque source material in both orginal German and English translation. $60.00 |
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| Low-Price Softbound Edition Writing for curious people who might become interested in the organ as well as for those who already are interested, organ enthusiast (and organist) Craig Whitney tells us why he loves the organ and, in so doing, relates wonderful anecdotes about many of the greats including Virgil Fox, E. Power Biggs, Leopold Stokowski as an organist, E. M. Skinner, G. Donald Harrison, Rodman Wanamaker and the organ in his Philadelphia department store, and more. His research included the papers of Virgil Fox’s long-time manager, Roberta Bailey, and he relates her key role in the development of Fox’s career. The author has worked as a reporter for the New York Times in New York, Saigon, Bonn, Moscow, Paris, and London, and as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, Washington editor, and is currently assistant managing editor. HARDBOUND EDITION IS PERMANENTLY OUT OF PRINT AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. $14.98 |
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| NEW! This updated history of the organs in Cambridge shows the span of organ history in the famous English town. $27.95 |
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| New from the OHS Press! Schoenstein & Co. Organs by Orpha Ochse Her latest book continues the history of the oldest and largest organ builder in the western US. $25.99 |
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| NEW! In four essays Relf Clark continues his observations on Elgar. $16.95 |
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by Barbara Owen The Organ Music of Johannes Brahmsby Barbara Owen A new study considers the many aspects of a Romantic master. $40.00 |
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| Beautiful Full Color Photos of organs the OHS will visit at our National Convention in July 2009 fill this 13-month calendar. $2.00 |
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| NEW! Wanted: One Crate of Lions is an autobiography by Charles McManis as well as a first person account of the US organ reform movement. $35.00 |
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Compiled and Edited by Rollin Smith The OHS Bookof Organ Poems Over 75 poems inspired by the organ have been assembled by Rollin Smith into this beautiful volume. An excellent gift. $15.99 |
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by N. Lee Orr Dudley Buck is the story of an important musician in 19th-century America.$45.00 |
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| In the first major Mendelssohn biography in decades, discover many new facets of this familiar but misunderstood composer, and gain new perspectives on a formidable musical genius. The situations and personalities surrounding the creation of all of the major works and most of the smaller ones, as well as analysis of many, enlighten understanding and appreciation. The organ works receive as much attention as other important works in this fine biography by the leading Mendelssohn scholar and musicologist Todd, of Duke University. Published by Oxford, 712 pages, illustrated, softbound. $25.95 |
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| Built as the 20th Century began, the Church of St-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts in Paris contains two fascinating organs. The large organ in the West Gallery was built in 1894 for the large Paris residence of a musical amateur who ordered from Aristide Cavaillé-Coll a powerful organ upon which he could play orchestral works of Richard Wagner. After his death, the organ was installed at the church with a new case and adapted by Merklin, the successor to Cavaillé-Coll. Merklin also provided a new Choir organ of 13 ranks on tubular action. This book discloses the history in greater detail, with facsimiles of documents and photographs that are otherwise unpublished, and also chronicles the restoration of the organs by Yves Fossaert. It includes 40 photographs and text in English and in French. 150 pages Click the headline for more information about the book, the committee that created it, and to order. $27.00 |
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Edited by Nola Reed Knouse The Music of the Moravian Church in America delves into one of our most distinctive musical and liturgical traditions. $50.00 |
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| THIS CLASSIC AND WIDELY-READ work includes more than 400 illustrations and myriad technical details on every aspect of organbuilding, including types of action, pipe voicing and construction, wind systems, and windchest designs. $49.95 |
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by Jeremy Dibble John Stainer: A Life in Music is a fine study of a musical contemporary of Queen Victoria and her era. $90.00 |
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| Church Music in America is John Ogasapian's final work. It traces the musical practice of several religious groups from their establishment in America to the present. $44.95 |
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| Austin Organs by Orpha Ochse More than the history of one firm, this book is a history of the American organ in the 20th century! writes historian Barbara Owen. $48.00 |
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Essays in Honor of Peter Williams Edited by Thomas Donahue Music and Its QuestionsEssays in Honor of Peter Williams This collection of essays pays tribute to Professor Williams's contributions with important, fascinating articles by many of the world’s top scholars in the field. $59.99 |
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| Obsessed with invention, Robert Hope-Jones struck a pathway that led to the fabulous Wurlitzer theatre organs. David Fox surveys Hope-Jones’ many careers: as a builder of church and cathedral organs in England, as an inventor of organ devices and pipes, as a church musician, and as the impetus for the name Wurlitzer to reign supreme as the most widely admired theatre organ.
Included are stoplists of 103 organs built 1887-1911, a compiled opus list of 246 Hope-Jones organs, a list of 122 Hope-Jones employees, and illustrated discussions of the organ devices invented by Hope-Jones and patented in the United States and/or England. 300 pages, hardbound, many photographs. $27.00 |
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| As scholar, organist, and a favorite pupil of her subject, Ann Labounsky brings unique qualifications as his biographer, including Langlais' request that she write of his life and music. $32.95 |
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| With a Bonus CD: The Tonal Tour narrated by Manuel Rosales With profiles and interviews, this book introduces the architect, organ builder, tonal designer and other important figures related to the visually striking organ found in Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall. There are many photos of the design and building process and a wealth of information about the project, including the evolution of the façade which has made this organ, and hall, an architectural landmark. $24.95 |
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1969 Master Classes VIRGIL FOX:The Master Teaches 21 hours with Virgil and his students! $50.00 |
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by Scott M. Hyslop Made possible in part by an OHS Alan Laufman Research Grant, this biography spans the life of Paul Manz and also includes an extensive study of his chorale based organ and choral works.$24.00 |
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| An Important Study of Buxtehude Revised and Newly Available! Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck by Kerala Snyder Originally published in 1987 and long out of print, this book is considered to be the standard work on Buxtehude. This revised edition has just been released and contains new information, an extensive bibliography and a CD of selected vocal, chamber and organ works. The book is written for both the casual reader and the serious scholar. The accompanying compact disc includes organ music played by Hans Davidsson of Eastman Shool of Music and the Göteborg Organ Art Center. $72.95 |
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| This softbound edition (formerly $79 in hardcover) presents eleven essays by Kimberly Marshall, Rollin Smith, Daniel Roth, Craig Cramer, Marie-Louise Langlais, and others explore historical, performance, and source matters in French Romantic organ music by such composers as Boëly, Lemmens, Franck, and Widor. $29.95 |
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| Over 100 full color pictures, Toronto church architecture, complete stop lists for 36 organs, historical and technical details, index, bibliography and glossary. $45.00 |
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| For the Orpheus of the Historic Organ gathers twenty-one articles and essays to celebrate Harald Vogel, a pioneering authority on 18th century German keyboard performance. $74.95 |
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A Pictorial Essay about the World’s Largest Pipe Organ This large-format book contains 94 of the legendary black and white 8"x10" photographs taken by Fred Hess & Son between 1929 and 1932, documenting the construction of the famous Midmer-Losh pipe organ with its 449 ranks and 33,114 pipes -- the largest organ in the world.Regular price: $45.00 Sale price: $25.00 |
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The Story of the World's Largest Pipe Organ by Stephen D. Smith Long awaited and now at a The comprehensive book about the World's Largest Organ at Atlantic City, as written by Stephen D. Smith, contains almost every detail concerning the instrument, including a wealth of information that has never before been published. Hard facts and personal opinions are brought together in an almost story-like format that includes historical information, technical details, stop lists, and biographies of people involved with the organ.Regular price: $46.00 Sale price: $25.00 |
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by Wallace Goodrich A new edition of Goodrich's 1917 classic reference. The original was written in an effort to explain the differences in terms and meaning of registrations of French works to American organists. The book continues to be a definitive study nearly a century after its first publication. $33.00 |
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| by Janice Parkinson-Tucker The City Hall of Portland, Maine, contains a handsome concert hall “auditorium” which is home to a large concert organ built in 1912 by the Austin Organ Company, op. 323. This book documents the absorbing tale of the Kotzschmar Memorial Organ and the stories and controversies that whirled around it. The book follows the history of the organ from its donation to the present, and tells the colorful stories of its organists and caretakers. Included are the careers of municipal organists Will C. Macfarlane, Irvin John Morgan, Edwin H. Lemare, Charles Raymond Cronham, Alfred Brinkler, John E. Fay, Douglas Rafter, Gerald McGee, Earl L. Miller, and Ray Cornils. The author presents much previoulsy undocumented material in this tribute to the organ, often called the “Jewel of Portland.” 126 pages, many illustrations, softbound $19.95 |
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| More than ONE HUNDRED organs built between 1698 and 2005 are included in this beautiful book, with color photos of church interiors, organ cases and facades, consoles and keydesks, and details. Authors Stephen J. Schnurr, Jr., and Dennis E. Northway provide stoplists, histories, and descriptions of the organs. They group the organs in eight sections that bring a coherent vision of a widely diverse collection of organs. Both authors are OHS members, and Stephen Schnurr is the elected Secretary of OHS. 286 pages, hardbound. Click for more information and to order. $50.00 |
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| This is the story, told with bubbling enthusiasm, of a personal revelation. It chronicles the author’s long and distinguished involvement with the organ, from his first contact at school, through the foundation and development of his various organbuilding companies, to his retirement. It details with full opus list, specifications, and photographs the organs built 1960-1981 by Degens & Rippin Ltd.; Grant, Degens & Rippin; and Grant, Degens & Bradbeer Ltd. 208 pages hardbound. $55.00 |
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| On keyboard instruments, tuning pure fifth intervals causes octaves to be out of tune. A temperament is a system in which the tuning of fifths is altered to keep the octaves in tune and allow the use of all notes of the musical scale. This books explores how the 12 notes of the musical scale are tuned on keyboard instruments such as the organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and piano. Discussed are the basis for temperament, the musical implications of a temperament’s characteristics, practical vs. theoretical, techniques and instructions for tuning various temperaments including meantone, Werkmeister, Kirnberger, Vallotti, Young, Kellner, equal, and many others. 228 pages, softbound $26.95 |
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| The performing styles of Virgil Fox are revealed and discussed, including the manual keyboard, Pedal keyboard, and registration technique that he used and taught. Edited by Brink Bush. 96 pages, softbound $22.95 |
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| Edited by Philip Bowcock & Peter Marr The 1864 "Father" Henry Willis organ of four manuals built for Reading Town Hall in England is a great survival and world destination for organ people who want to experience a real, large, English Romantic organ, entirely restored as built. The organ is also a pluperfect example of the municipal organ that flourished in England throughout the Victorian and Edwardian eras, leading to the sometimes gargantuan examples which were built in the United States during the first third of the 20th century, culminating in the largest organ in the world at Atlantic City. This book produced by the Berkshire Organists’ Association following the 1999 restoration relates the entire history of the organ, provides all of its pipe scales and much other technical data, compiles major recital programs, and collects eleven essays. Click the headline for a list of essays and to order. The book contains many illustrations and 104 pages, softbound. $19.98 |
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| 1911 edition of six volumes and more than 4,400 pages on 2 CD-Roms. Useable on a PC or MAC computer equipped with a CD drive. $24.95 |
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| Edited by John R. Watson, this volume publishes essays delivered at the colloquium Historic Organs Reconsidered: Restoration and Conservation for a New Century, held in 1999 at St. Luke's Church (1609) in Smithfield, Virginia, where the 1630 English chamber organ served as a backdrop and an example for consideration. The writers address issues such as restoration ethics, "forensic" examination methods, the work of conservation laboratories, and includes case studies of historic organs in Europe and America. Essayists include Laurence Libin, John Watson, R. L. Barclay, Darryl Martin, David Blanchfield, David Goist, Barbara Owen, Christopher Kent, Dominic Gwynn, George Taylor, Bruce Shull, Raymond J. Brunner, Göran Grahn, and Darcy Kuronen. $35.00 |
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| This book by H. Heathcote Statham was first published in England in 1909 with topics for the consideration of both musicians and amateurs. The first chapter expands the idea of the organ in musical culture, and the other chapters are entitled, "Specification for Organ of Fifty Stops;" "The Organ in Oratorio;" "The Organ in the Church;" The Architectural Treatment of the Organ;" and "Some Reminiscences of a Great Organ-Player" enlightening the biography of W. T. Best with whom the author shared a friendship. The author was a very well informed organ enthusiast and musical amateur. 240 pages hardbound $62.50 |
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| is Buck's inaugural lecture as chairman of the new organ department at Boston University, first published in 1882. $9.50 |
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| by Sister María de los Ángeles Conto Anido, J. Sergio del Campo Olaso, Martin Goetze, and Maria E. Iglesias Santa Clara Convent in the pilgrimage destination Santiago de Compostela, the city where St. James is buried near the westernmost tip of Spain, contains an organ built by Manuel de la Viña in 1709. Having built organs in four cathedrals, he was one of the more important builders of the period. The restoration in 2004 by Martin Goetze & Dominic Gwynn, Ltd., of England, is finely described in English by Martin Goetze in 54 of the book’s 215 pages, with essential pipe measurements provided in charts, the results of spectrographic metal analysis, and many photographs of parts in full color (including a few electronphotomicrographs). Chapters by the other authors are published in Spanish, and are very beautifully illustrated. This may be the most beautifully colorful book about the restoration of an organ that exists. Softbound. Click the headline to learn more abou the book and a companion CD. $29.95 |
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| Litterae Organi Celebrating the founding of The Organ Historical Society fifty years ago (our 50th year began in the Summer of 2006), the OHS Press publishes an eclectic collection of essays in honor of Barbara Owen. $45.00 |
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| Murray M. Harris returned in 1894 from his Boston apprenticeship with organbuilder George S. Hutchings to a booming Los Angeles where only eight pipe organs existed. Six years later, Los Angeles would have 154 churches in it and scores of new pipe organs, many of them built by Harris and Henry C. Fletcher became business partners and founded the city’s first organbuilding firm, Fletcher & Harris. From this beginning more than 100 organs were built by 1913, including the world’s largest for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and that would become Philadelphia’s famous Wanamaker Organ. David Lennox Smith (d. 1979) carefully gathered the history of Harris and his contemporaries and Orpha Ochse has updated Smith’s research with the help of colleagues Jack Bethards, Kevin Gilchrist, Jim Lewis, and Manuel Rosales to include an annotated opus list, listings of organbuilders from the Los Angeles City Directories, many stoplists and photographs, and technical details. 344 pages, hardbound $29.95 |
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| This book lists music for the organ in combination with a variety of other instruments. Each entry contains a description of the piece, level of difficulty, timing, mood, fingerings/pedalings, publisher, and other performance aids when available. The pieces listed are suitable for concerts as well as religious services and include music in a variety of styles, Baroque to contemporary. Titles are arranged alphabetically by composer and are indexed by title, chorale melodies or hymn tunes, and number of performers required to perform a work. 420 pages softbound Click the headline for more information and to order. $57.00 |
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| This directory aims to list every organbuilder who ever worked in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, from the earliest times to the mid-20th Century. Information is basic: names, dates, locations, addresses, cross references, and sources. Wickens compiles and expands the work of Andrew Freeman undertaken in the 1920s and the subsequent work by Bernard Edmonds on expanding Freeman’s material. Now deposited in the British Organ Archive, these resources laid the foundations of this Directory. 1,000 pages softbound in 3 volumes. $185.00 |
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| TWENTY YEARS of the author’s research is compiled in a review of scaling methods, interpretation of data, and tables of measurements. This well-reviewed work covers the scaling of pipes by English organbuilders from Smith and Harris through Willis and Harrison. $49.95 |
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| The first comprehensive English-language account of Reger’s œuvre, Antonius Bittmann emphatically revises misconceptions about Reger’s music which has often been stigmatized because of its indebtedness to earlier composers, especially Brahms. As Bittmann argues, Reger does not turn to historical models in order to preserve or reconstitute antiquated musical languages; rather, Reger appropriates the musical past for the most modern ends. Taking a strong interest in reception history, Bittmann reassesses Reger’s work by drawing on a wide array of interdisciplinary sources in literary criticism, philosophy, and cultural history. Antonius Bittmann teaches musicology at Rutgers University and holds graduate degrees from Eastman and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. Published 2004. 320 pages $76.00 |
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| Despite her extraordinary reputation as an organist and composer, Jeanne Demessieux was known by her peers as a piano virtuoso as well, even from an early age, and for her performance of romantic works. French organ pedagogy recognized a strong piano background as indispensable to the best students of the organ. In this study, the author finds convincing evidence that the piano language of Chopin and Liszt strongly influenced the composition of Demessieux’s virtuosic Six Études for the organ. A panorama of the history, literature, and teaching of both organ and piano — instruments so differing in technical and expressive characteristics but which connect strongly in at least one moment of musical history — relate a new understanding to the reader and certainly inform a preparation for performance. $29.00 |
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| This first major study of Stokowski's early years covers his education at the Royal College of Music in England, his church posts in London, and his three years spent as director of music at New York's prestigious St. Bartholomew's Church, all before his appointment as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. An examination of the programs of his organ recitals (played on the third largest organ in America), a list of
his repertoire, facsimiles of his original choral works, an analysis of his Aeolian player organ roll of Bach's
Passacaglia, and a detailed study of his famous orchestral transcriptions of Bach's organ works, reveals a
new and unique insight into Stokowski's unparalleled career in music. $38.95 |
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| Jehan Alain left numerous manuscripts representing several versions of each organ pieces. For ten years, Marie-Claire Alain comparatively studied the various versions and documents, and has compiled a book which follows the harmonic and rhythmic evolution of the young composer and his concern for tonal color as expressed in evolving registrations. The performer may remain faithful to the music and also choose among the variants suggested by the composer. 121 pages, softbound $87.50 |
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| This book delivers a thorough explanation of technical details of the organ’s mechanism and pipes through a clear, “question and answer” format. Dating from 1876, the discussion occurred before electric action was prevalent; otherwise, the explanations are very helpful and complete, including the construction of various types of pipes, the sounds of stops, wind systems, action, scaling and tuning, etc. 164 pages hardbound $42.50 |
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| Back in print! This practical guide for home woodworkers contains specifications, designs, and full instructions for making every portion of an organ, with more than 200 illustrations and diagrams. 228 pages, hardbound $72.95 |
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| Alfred Hollins (1865-1942), British composer, organist, and pianist, studied with Hans von Bülow in Berlin and, at age 18, toured Germany as a concert pianist with a repertoire of concertos. He was organist of Free St. George’s Church, Edinburgh, from 1897 until his death. His autobiography presents a view of a concert and church organist’s life in the early 20th century. 436 pages hardbound $88.95 |
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| John Warriner gathered and published these anecdotes that were first published in 1927. The author writs, “This little volume makes no pretense to rank as literature: it is merely a collection of stories (humorous or otherwise), sayings and doings . . . associated with the profession or calling of the Church Organist." 140 pages hardbound $48.95 |
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| Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76) was not only the foremost organist and church musician of his generation, but a vigorous campaigner for higher standards in cathedral music. Peter Horton, librarian at the Royal College of Music and editor of Wesley's anthems, has drawn on a wide range of source material to produce a detailed account of Wesley's life and career as he moved from cathedral to cathedral in search of an unattainable ideal. The book is illustrated by a generous selection of musical examples and plates, and includes the most detailed list of works to appear in print. $99.00 |
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| Translator J. Barrie Jones, editor Jean-Michel Nectoux.
Some 130 letters written between Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré 1862-1920, translated to English, are immensely significant to the study of French music and constitute a primary source on the composers’ compositions, opinions and working practices. $110.00 |
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| The largest Tannenberg Organ, Restored! America’s first professional organbuilder, David Tannenberg, received in 1798 at age 70 the commission to build a 2m organ for Home Moravian Church in Salem, North Carolina. That organ remains the largest extant of Tannenberg’s instruments, with two manuals and pedal. Silent for 88 years as it languished in storage, the organ was restored 1998-2004 by Taylor & Boody. This handsome book recounts Tannenberg’s biography, the organ’s history, and the story of its restoration. More than half of the book is devoted to the restoration, including many technical details. Illustrations and photographs abound. Click picture for more details and to order. $9.99 |
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| In 1931, parts of an ancient pipe organ were excavated in Budapest, in a place called Aquincum when it came into Roman possession in the early years, A. D. An inscription dates the organ to 228 A. D. This book in English describes the organ as studied and reproduced by Werner Walcker-Mayer, scion of the organbuilding dynasty. His careful studies of the music of the organ’s era and a decade of technical research, his failures and success at the third attempt to replicate the organ (in 1969), all are recounted with many photographs and diagrams in this handsome volume, bound in green leather. $13.95 |
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| edited by Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. Colloquium of the Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Sept. 1-4, 1994, in Budapest, published 1997. 19 essays: 13 English and six German. $13.25 |
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| American organist and composer Eugene Thayer (1838-1889) inaugurated in 1874 a newspaper exclusively for organists – the first such publication in America and the forerunner to The Diapason, The American Organist, and The Tracker. Each issue contains commentary, reports and stoplists of specific organs in the U. S. and abroad, historical accounts, articles, and compositions for the organ by Thayer (28 pieces), Liszt, Rossini, Chadwick, Merkel, Guilmant, Lemmens, Hesse, Battmann, and many others. In 1877, Thayer published all of the issues as a set containing 242 pages, and a facsimile of that is what the Organ Historical Society has published anew, as a hardbound book with a very informative biographical introduction. Click the headline for more information and to order. $24.95 |
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| The chapter on historic organ cases should be read by every architect who works in churches. First published in 1919, the book extends Audsley’s classic 2-volume The Art of Organ-Building published in 1906, updating his tonal views and the importance of developing the organ specification. 519 pages, 138 illustrations, softbound. $23.95 |
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| What was the role of the pedal clavichord in music history? Was it a cheap practice instrument for organists or was it a teaching tool that helped contribute to the quality of organ playing in its golden age? This book explores J. S. Bach’s keyboard technique as preserved by his first biographer, J. N. Forkel(1802), through an experiment which reconstructs and then documents the use by musicians of a pedal harpsichord such as that owned by J. S. Bach. 280 pages, 10 illustrations. $70.00 |
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| For the 1889 Paris World’s Fair, Cavaillé-Coll prepared a handsome catalog of ten model organs of up to 30 stops as well as 28 additional pages devoted to stoplists and drawings of organs built and proposed for such places as Sheffield, England and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, testimonials, a history of the firm, and a list of exported organs (including a tantilizing dozen to “Amerique"). Of course, the text is in French. The publisher of this facsimile adds a description of the Fair in English, color pictures and stoplists of seven extant examples identical to the model organs, and more. $29.95 |
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| Writings from Paris 1893-1894 by Fannie Edgar Thomas as correspondent of New York's Musical Courier are compiled by Agnes Armstrong. Thomas describes in great detail the music scene in late 19th-century Paris, relating especially to organs and organists. Also discussed are music education in France, the famed Conservatoire Nationale, private music teachers, and Americans studying in Paris. Having researched and annotated the reports of Thomas, Armstrong indexed them and provides a name glossary identifying each of the personalities mentioned in the text. Thomas' interviews and observations are generously illustrated with period photographs. Forewords by Orpha Ochse and Kurt Lueders, and a Preface by Armstrong. 211 pages, 9x12, hardbound $36.95 |
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| Having grown up in the English county of Rutland and having served 40 years as Anglican priest in the county of Northamptonshire, the author writes of the organs, builders, church music, and musical personalities of the area, including a history of the organs at Peterborough Cathedral. 272 pages, many illustrations, softbound. Regular price: $48.95 Sale price: $35.00 |
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| Among Britain's gifted and productive composers, Stanford (1852-1924) is best known for his church music. Cosmopolitan, ambitious, and pragmatic, he was untiring in advancing the cause of British music during its renaissance at the end of the 19th century, promoting his contemporaries and pupils he taught at Cambridge and the Royal Conservatory. 576 pages, illustrated $139.95 |
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| The author evaluates the significance of the relationship between Max Reger (1873-1916) and contemporary Karl Straube (1873-1950) using primary source materials such as autograph performing manuscripts, reviews, programs, letters and archival sources from contemporary organ building. The result is a much enhanced understanding of Reger in terms of performance practice and reception history, and a re-examination of Straube and, more broadly, of Leipzig as a musical center during this period. 450 pages, hardbound $130.00 |
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| Stoplists of all organs known to have been built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (and significant organs proposed but not built) are organized in chronological order by author Jesse Eschbach and trace the history and tonal evolution throughout the sixty year career of this master organbuilder. The text is in English, French, and German. Agnes Armstrong contributes an essay, Cavaillé-Coll Organs for North America. 896 pages $89.95 |
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Collaboration, by Edouard Nies-Berger In 1949, Albert Schweitzer asked Eduoard Nies-Berger, organist of the New York Philharmonic, to assist him in editing the final three volumes of the J. S. Bach organ works, an undertaking Schweitzer had begun years earlier with Charles-Marie Widor. In this book, Nies-Berger, a fellow Alsatian who had known Schweitzer since childhood, chronicles their collaboration during the final decade and a half of Schweitzer's life and presents his candid observations of this extraordinary man and the people around him. From his reminiscences of their warm friendship emerges a fascinating portrait of this complex yet very human genius. 140 pages hardbound Click the headline for more information and to order.$32.00 |
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| New Edition Low Price Extensively illustrated with 49 in color and 50 monochrome, this book introduces the organ, its history, design, and repertoire. It describes types of organ pipes and various styles of organ by era and nationality, and also presents a brief history of the organ. Previously available from another publisher at a higher price, this book was very popular in its previous incarnation. Possibly useful as a textbook. 96pp. $17.95 |
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| For the 90th birthday of Heinrich Fleischer, colleagues honor the great teacher and organist who relocated from Leipzig to the Chicago area in 1949. The book contains eight essays including Christoph Wolff on the authenticity of Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in d Click for other essay subjects and authors $24.95 |
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| Editor Reinhard Jaud gathers exquisite color photographs of 44 famous organs in these cities, interlacing them with stoplists and histories in English as well as the language of each city. The creation of this beautiful book in 2002 arises from the association in 1997 of ECHO: European Cities of Historical Organs, with nine members by 2002. Included in the book are important historic organs in Alkmaar, Freiberg, Göteborg, Innsbruck, Lisbon, Roskilde, Toulouse, Treviso, and Zaragoza. Click on headline for more information. $23.95 |
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| Sverker Jullander, general editor Bringing organbuilders together with scientists (physicists, metallurgists, acousticians, etc.), historians, musicians and more, the documentation of organs can be more thorough than ever before, through an inclusive methodology and application of techniques and processes, many heretofore not applied to the organ. The first published results of these techniques test them and demonstrate their usefulness and applicability to any organ. Each report consists of a book in English with descriptive texts by Niclas Fredriksson, an historical overview by Axel Unnerbäck, photos, a table of general scalings, and a CD-ROM with hundreds of photos and measurement tables and containing a statement on the methods employed in documentation (including unique and non-destructive techniques for measuring metal thickness, etc.). Click on title for selection. |
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| by Jacques van Oortmerssen This book provides study material, in English, for the development of a thorough and reliable organ technique based on historical principles and tradition, toward the development of expressiveness and stylistic differentiation. ....intended for those with a relatively advanced keyboard tecnique. $26.00 |
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| Proceedings of the Weckmann of 1991 in Göteborg,
Sweden, edited by Sverker Jullander, with most essays in English and a few in German. Contains
11 studies grouped 3 sections: 1) Weckmann’s life, work and environment with essays by Ibo Ortgies, Hans Davidsson, Arnfried Edler, and Frederick K. Gable; 2) 17th-
century composers linked with Weckmann, including Monteverdi, Schütz, Jacob Praetorius II,
van Noordt, and J. A. Reincken, discussed by Alexander Silbiger, Gable, Curtis Lasell, Hans van
Nieuwkoop, adn Ulf Grapenthin. 3) Erik Kjellberg documents musical life as governed by Swedish rule in the area of Northern Germany in the 17th century and Greger Andersson gives an overview of the relationship between organists and town musicians in 17th and 18th century
Sweden. 282 pages, softbound. Includes audio cassette of 11 Sacred Concertos by Weckmann as
performed by soloists, instrumentalists, and choir conducted by Mikael Paulsson. $32.00 |
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| Hans Davidsson, Sverker Jullander, eds. 23 articles: 1 in French, 2 in German, 20 in English, 514 pages $32.00 |
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| by Johan Norrback Seeking a definable way of selecting the temperament in which an organ may be tuned, Johan Norrback describes (in English) a new method for studying tuning and temperament in organ music involving three primary elements: .... $29.00 |
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by Vincent Rioux Study of the art of voicing organ pipes was undertaken at Chalmers University of Technology in collaboration with GoArt. Reported in English as his doctoral dissertation in applied acoustics, Rioux worked with an organ workshop engaged principally in the reconstruction of Baroque organs, gathering descriptions obtained from an expert voicer and comparing them with physical analyses made on experimental pipes or psychological analyses made on a pool of test participants. He was able to produce a structured list of words and phrases suitable for the description of flue organ pipe sounds. 200 pages, softbound $39.95 |
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quantify the effects of many variables on the production of tone in organ pipes. Studied are metal
alloys; metal thickness; metal casting techniques including cloth and sand; metal treatments such
as scraping (and orientation of scrape relative to the metal sheet), hammering; cutting from
various parts of a cast sheet; orientation of cut relative to the metal sheet; down surface vs. up
surface; casting temperature. Also, analysis of pipe metal from the Scherer organ at
Tangermünde. 63 pages softbound $10.50 |
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| by Ray Biswanger. Read the complete story of the colossal pipe organ and the fabled Philadelphia retail palace that has been its showcase for 90 years. Order your copy now! Regular price: $69.50 Sale price: $66.00 |
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Hans Davidsson and Paul Peeters, eds. Published in honor of Cor Edskes, this is one main article in German language by Edskes on the original pitch and temperament of the Schnitger organ at St. Jacobi, Hamburg, with a summary in English and introductory texts in German and English. 46 pages $10.25 |
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by Tobias Carlsson In many respects related to the new “Schnitger” organ constructed in Göteborg, this dissertation published in 2002 (in English) measures many recognized but previously unmeasured relationships, ...Click on title for complete description. $39.95 |
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| by Ferdinand Moosmann and Rudi Schäfer, a biography of the great German organbuilder, with many technical details of organs and organ inventions, stoplists, and descriptions of organs. German text. Published 1994. 236 pages softbound. $11.95 |
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| by Klaus- Jürgen Sachs. Research and comments on texts from the middle ages concerning the construction of organ pipes. Text in German and as quoted from sources (usually Latin). 252 pages, hardbound $22.95 |
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| by Klaus-Jürgen Sachs. Research and comments on texts from the middle ages concerning the construction of organ pipes. Text in German and as quoted from sources (usually Latin). 405 pages, hardbound, published 1980 $22.95 |
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| by Christian Namberger. 131 pages spiral bound, published in 1999, German text. $8.95 |
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| by Birger Olsson in Swedish, with English summary, 256 pages $35.00 |
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| by Clemens von Gleich & Johnann Sonnleitner From J. S. Bach’s complete instrumental and vocal works, the authors have selected some 200 practical examples which are presented as exercises for students, professionals, and amateurs. Clear explanations and discussions are written engagingly in English. The book also contains a CD of Jacques van Oortmerssen playing works of Bach on several famous historic organs. 176 pages softbound $47.50 |
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| Sverker Jullander, ed.; Paul Peeters & Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, assoc. eds. A COLLECTION OF TEN ARTICLES IN ENGLISH: Hans Davidsson and Munetaka Yokota, “Introduction to the Technical Research”.... Tore Granhäll, “Some Unsteady Flow Phenomena in Wind Supply Systems of Pipe Organs”.... Hans van Nieuwkoop, “Tempo and Time Signatures in the 17th and 18th Centuries” For complete list of contents click on title 215 pages, softbound $32.00 |
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| Sverker Jullander, ed. A COLLECTION OF NINE ARTICLES IN ENGLISH: William Porter, “Reconstructing 17th-Century North German Improvisational Practice”.... Kerala J. Snyder, “Franz Tunder’s Stock-Exchange Concerts: Prelude to the Lübeck Abendmusiken”.... Joris Verdin, “The Aesthetic Principles of the Harmonium: the Essence of Expression”.... Click title for complete table of contents $32.00 |
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| Sverker Jullander, ed. A COLLECTION OF SEVEN ARTICLES IN ENGLISH: Johan Bergsten and Paul Peeters, “The GoArt Database System: A Tool for Organ and Keyboard Research” Pieter Dirksen, “Dieterich Buxtehude and the Chorale Fantasia”.... For complete table of contents click on title. $32.00 |
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by Joachim Walter The author found primary-source evidence of German Romantic music performance techniques that contradict earlier conclusions, especially regarding dynamics and registration practices. Transcriptions of Beethoven and Mozart works as written out by Hermann Jimmerthal (1809-1866), organist at the giant 1854 Schulze organ in St. Mary’s, Lübeck (organ destroyed in WWII), employ unexpected, kaleidoscopic, registration practices continued by Jimmerthal’s successor, Karl Lichtwark. 241 pages (The author plays this music on the Ladegast at Schwerin. Motette CD-12681 $14.98) $47.50 |
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| Magnificent color pictures grace all 300 pages describing 57 organs in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Anna Frisk, Sverker Jullander, and Andrew McCrea, editors. Included are stoplists, historical and cultural background, and information on the organbuilders and their time. The text is in English. $56.00 |
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The New 1916 Edition From the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ
Reprinted from a popular edition, this little booklet goes well beyond information about the organ with general information about the famous department store, including pictures and descriptions ....$4.00 |
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| Joel Speerstra, editor. The latest publication from GoArt includes contributions from scholars, scientists, organists, and organbuilders involved in the project of creating a new “Schnitger” organ in Göteborg as a multidisciplinary excercise that results in the ever more widely admired 82-rank Schnitger “clone.” 376 pages, includes CD-Rom with more documentation and photographs. $80.00 |
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| Two volumes combined into one present more than 120 spirituals set for voice with piano accompaniment. Each section of the book has an extensive preface by its editor. Softbound, 376 pp. Click on headline to order. $19.95 |
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| Originally published at the turn of the 20th century, this book clearly explains the nature of the organ pipe and the system of equal temperament, and how to set the equal temperament. The author also traces the evolution of the diatonic scale. 132 pages, softbound $34.00 |
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New Edition First published in 1855, this edition is newly typeset from the third edition of 1877. The most complete text on how an organ works in all of its variations to 1877, the book comprises 854 pages, technical illustrations, examples of stoplists, and much more. hardbound $84.50 |
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| lists 53,000 organ works by 5,700 composers, including publishers. Shows items in collections (i. e. Vierne: Carillon de Westminster is listed individually as Suite 6, No. 6, of Pieces de Fantaisie, Op. 54). 1,134 pages, hardbound $116.50 |
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New Edition First published in 1923, this book was written as “a practical guide” to organ stops, “their Nomenclature, Construction, Voicing and Artistic Use.” Included is a glossary of terms “relating to the Science of Tone-Production from Organ Pipes.” 138 pages, hardbound $40.00 |
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New Edition First published in English translation in 1888, describes the sound and construction of pipes which comprise more than 160 organ stops. As well, he defines other terms and, most helpfully, gives “hints for effective combinations” of stops. Locher was an organist in Berne, Switzerland, and first wrote at the behest of music teachers on the Continent who had heard him lecture on the subject. 65 pages, hardbound $22.25 |
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New Edition The author offers concise, step-by-step, precise instructions for building a chamber pipe organ of one or two manuals and pedal. It contains 154 pages and 58 diagrams, a list of tools needed, and covers the making of wood pipes, the windchests, bellows, key and stop actions, and a section on organs in village churches. $47.50 |
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New Edition First published in 1909, the book traces the international evolution of electric action in pipe organs from 1851. 130 pages, hardbound $28.00 |
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New Edition A lecture delivered to the Birmingham and Midland Musical Guild in 1888 addresses the concepts of design in a complete organ with up to four manuals, a pedal organ, and other forward-looking features. The highly respected Casson was party to a celebrated and ongoing “feud” with Robert Hope-Jones concerning organ design. 24 pages softbound $5.75 |
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| Available Again! But supplies are very short! Just a few uncirculated, new copies have been found of this book published in 1979 by Sunbury Press. It traces the evolution of organs and their builders in New England from the Colonial era to the 20th century. 649 pages hardbound, 184 photos, 116 stoplists, slight foxing. Click on the headline to order. $59.00 |
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| by Anders Carlsson, Hans Davidsson, Su Dunthorne, Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, Joel Speerstra In an ultimate investigation (so far) into the design and construction of the North German Baroque organ as built by its most famous builder, Arp Schnitger, Göteborg University in Sweden organized some of the world’s great organbuilders, scientists, and experts into a group who have literally built a new and large Schnitger of 82 ranks based on precise studies and duplication of extant and evidence of extinct examples,.... The project is related in mostly non-technical terms in this handsome book, including 70 photographs, mostly in color, and a highly informative text in English. 77 pages, hardbound. $23.95 |
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| Multi-media studies on the music of Matthias Weckmann, Otto Olsson, Petr Eben, and organbuilder Petter Adolph Albrechtsen. Click on headline to select. |
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| As the first survey of 20th-century British music for solo organ, this book focuses on pieces that composers wrote, their musical style, possible influences on the composition of specific works, and details of composition. Larger sections are devtoed to Parry, Stanford, Healey Willan, Herbert Howells, Percy Whitlock, Francis Jackson, Peter Racine Fricker, Arthur Wills, and Kenneth Leighton. Biographies, the role of organs and organ building developments, influential political and sociological events, and aesthetic aspects of British musical life figure in the discussion. A comprehensive Catalog of Works provides titles of works, dates of composition, details of publishers, and the dates of publication. More than 60 music examples, twelve black and white photos, and an up-to-date bibliography are included. 432 pages, hardbound Click on the headline for more information and to order $64.95 |
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| This anthology presents the literary expressions of writers who have sought to capture the magic of the organ in poetry and prose, in stories, in factual and fictional accounts, in simile, and in metaphor. Literature by about 100 authors is divided into five sections: 1) poetry from six centuries (by such as Auden, Browning, Chaucer, Dickinson, Dryden, Eliot, Hesse, Marvell, Milton and Dylan Thomas); 2) passages from novels; 3) excerpts from mystery writers; 4) short stories, printed in their entirety, by such masters as Arnold Bennett, David Ely, Bill Franzen, Garrison Keillor, H. L. Mencken, and Jessamyn West; 5) essays by such as Leigh Hunt, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Steele, and Virgil Thomson. Selections are linked with commentary and background and biographical information. 216 pages hardbound. Click on the headline to order. $52.95 |
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| A book by Dennis G. Waring, and a CD! Together, the book and the CD tell the story of the reed organ in American culture. Click on picture for complete description and ordering $22.95 |
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| Admired as composer of universally beloved organ works and other compositions, Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) is celebrated at the centennial of his birth by editor Ronald Ebrecht who has collected seven fine articles on Duruflé's life and work that will enthrall all those who have come under the spell of this great master of French Impressionism. 248 pages, hardbound Click picture for further description and list of authors $56.95 |
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| The organ, more than any other instrument, represents the music, art, architecture, craft, and science of its day, reflecting the spirit of the age in which it was built. This book is the first to consider the organ's historical and cultural significance, and reflects the efforts of twenty leading scholars of the organ in chronicling the six organs in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, at least one specimen for every century from 1600 to the present. By considering their original contexts and their histories since they were built, as well as the extraordinary coincidences that link them together, the book offers a unique perspective on the cultural history of northern Europe. A CD with appropriate repertoire played on each of the six instruments accompanies the 416-page, illustrated, book, published by Oxford in cooperation with the Göteborg Organ Art Center. Click headline for more information or to order $53.95 |
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| In four essays, Relf Clark describes the creative and friendly relationships that Elgar enjoyed with the organists of three English Cathedrals: Ivor Atkins at Worcester, Herbert Brewer at Gloucester, and G. R. Sinclair at Hereford. These three were in their respective organ lofts for two decades during Elgar’s most creative period, and they led the illustrious, biennial, Three Choirs Festival in which Elgar’s music was, and still is, often heard. Click for further description. $13.95 |
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| Documenting the organ history of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the surrounding Allen County, Patricia Arthur compiles organ histories 1840-2000 of more than 60 churches and institutions. Color photographs and stoplists of extant organs fill an Appendix. She examines the Fort Wayne Organ Co. 1871-1929, other local builders, work of the Hinners firm, organs in residences and theatres, and more. 278 pages Click on the headline to order. $27.00 |
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of the Organ Works of César Franck This edition, greatly enlarged, revised, and emended, incorporates research completed during the past two decades, updating information on the Sainte-Clotilde organ while retaining its original intent: to compile and examine the extant, first-hand references to Franck as an organ student, organ player, and organ teacher written by those who knew him, heard him, and studied with him. Click ikon for further description$49.00 |
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| Rollin Smith's systematic study of the Franck organ works serves as a permanent masterclass. Beginning with a concentrated chapter summarizing Franck’s life and his social and musical milieu in Paris, Smith moves systematically through the organ works in lucid prose, addressing registration, tempo, discrepancies in manuscript and published scores, and other issues of effective, authentic, and accurate performance. Many illustrations and musical examples enhance the text. 312 pp., hardbound. $49.00 |
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by Nicholas Plumley and Austin Niland Beginning with the “Father” Smith organ of 1694, the organs in the famous London cathedral are traced through enlargement and rebuildings of the Smith organ, through the Willis organ of 1872 and 1930, to the current Mander organ of 225 ranks which comprises much of its predecessors. Also covered are other organs in the Cathedral and even some information about the previous cathedral building, destroyed in the London fire of 1666. 221 pages softbound, illustrated$36.98 |
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| Papers from the conference on organ conservation held in Liverpool, England, in 1999 present an overview of conservation in Britain, Europe, and the USA, with renowned contributors. Areas covered include: conservation related to musical performance; concert organs and their repertoire; organ consultants; training of restorers; archaeology; planning conservation. Click on picture for further description $13.98 |
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| German-language book This important German organbuilding firm has 1,082 organs on its opus list through 2002, plus many rebuilt organs, all of which are listed in the book. Nine of the 13 chapters are written by Hermann Fischer and concern: Eugen Link’s association with Albert Schweitzer and Alsace; the Organophon (player organ); the factory and its owners; Eugen Link as president of the Association of Organbuilding Masters of Germany; World War I; and more which is more fully described by clicking the picture $34.00 |
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Book I, edited by Hans Gerd Klais Published in 1982 with 14 topics or essays. 416 pages, illustrated. Click ikon for a list of contents and titles of essays$30.00 |
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| Celle, in Lower Saxony, is home to historic cases of the 16th - 18th centuries as well as new ones. The book contains the organ history of Celle, with accounts of all organs in historical cases or containing pipes from 1860 or earlier; a complete inventory of all instruments from 1368 to the present; organbuilders who built new organs in Celle up to 1945, including lists of works. Click ikon for more information on this German-language book $50.00 |
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| Using as an example the rebuild of the 1930 Kuhn organ in the Munster at Bern, Switzerland, the author examines modern-day concerns of restoring and regbuilding organs of the 1930s to the 1960s. New, revised edition, 64 pages, 24 illustrations, German language $16.00 |
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| Christian Vater worked for Arp Schnitger 1697-1702 and kept a book of important details of Schnitger’s practices. In addition to 56 pages of facsimile, the book transcribes the hard-to-read German handwriting to modern type (in German only). There is a substantial foreword in English by William Porter and one in German by Paul Peeters of Göteborg. 107 pages $110.00 |
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by Karl-Heinz Göttert and Eckhard Isenberg This beautiful book presents pictures of about 100 organs, with 90 pictures in full color and many stoplists. Both historic and modern organs are covered in fourteen European countries. Though German text, the pictures and stoplists are accessible to everyone! Readers of German will learn of the authors' process of visiting these organs, with histories. 275 pages, hardbound. Click ikon for further description.$43.95 |
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by Göttert & Isenberg Similar to its companion volume Orgelführer Europa, this handsome collection of pictures and information on organs in Germany is now in its third and updated edition. German text but the pictures and stoplists are accessible to everyone! hardbound, 265 pages$43.95 |
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| Exquisitely illustrated with full color drawings, diagrams, and many photographs throughout, the world of the organ becomes even more wonderful while perusing the eye-popping pages of this handsome, large-format tome. An entire chapter deals with mechansim, with wonderfully clear drawings of how it all works. Then come chapters on ancient organs and magnificent examples of organs built in the 16th through the 20th centuries. The text is entirely in German with no translation, but the illustrations are largely self explanatory. 96 pages Click ikon for further description. $77.95 |
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| Cinema historian Allen Eyles presents a short history of movie theatres in Britain, tracing architectural styles and the evolution of these fascinating houses in every decade since the first purpose-built movie house, constructed in 1907. It concentrates on the architectural heyday before World War II. Organs are seen in many of the photographs, and they are mentioned in the text. 59 photos. Click ikon for further description $6.95 |
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| This work collects a bibliography of publications about American organ composers and their works. Entries include short biographies and sources thereof, excluding lists of works. The work is current to 1993 and is pubished in a bibliography series edited by J. Bunker and Marilyn S. Clark. Click on the headline to order. $40.00 |
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| Four essays are gathered into a 60-page booklet published by the ACCHOS, describing the world’s largest organ. Included are the layout of all of the divisions in the building, layout of the consoles, the full stoplist, construction details on every rank of pipes, a splendid explanation of the resources and operation of the five-manual console, and how it differs from the seven-manual one. And, much more. $8.00 |
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An Irreverent Biography of the Great American Organist A remembrance of Virgil Fox by Richard Torrence and Marshall Yaeger, based on a memoir by Ted Alan Worth. 428 pages, hardbound, 65 photographs $37.00 |
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| Everett Truette of Boston published 1892-1894 "a monthly journal devoted to the King of Instruments" called The Organ. Its 24 issues contain biographies of contemporary organbuilders, music, technical articles, stoplists, advertisements, trivia, and a rich collection of letters including an acerbic exchange of views between Carlton Michell and Ernest M. Skinner. This large (9" x 12"), hardbound, facsimile edition of more than 600 pages of high-quality, coated, paper contains The Organ in its entirety. $59.95 |
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| This comprehensive survey of the American organ mentions most of nation’s organbuilders and provides histories of major figures including the Hooks, the Johnsons, Möller, Erben, Tannenberg and many others. From instruments built by colonists to organs of the 20th century, Orpha Ochse describes historic instruments and events of organ history. 500 pages, 39 illustrations, stoplists, appendices. Softbound. $29.95 |
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Dean of American Organists Clarence EddyDean of American Organists This first major biography brings light to a brilliant figure and a founder of the American Guild of Organists. $35.00 |
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| This recent, revised edition takes into account the considerable research into chamber organs that has taken place over the last thirty years since the first publication of this book in 1968. Much of the book has been completely rewritten and expanded, and it includes a number of organs not detailed in the first edition. The book gives detailed descriptions of 196 British chamber organs, with information on their location, specifications, and design. There is also a general history of the chamber organ, and a section on construction.Click photo for more information $94.95 |
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| This is the largest inventory and reference ever published in the field of early English organs (1660-1860). Based on the notebooks of John H. Sperling originating in the 1840s and early 1850s, it comprises some 1,300 organ descriptions and drawings. These were compared to other historical sources by Dr. Boeringer in the exhaustive, seven-year effort of preparing this magnificent work. Added are hundreds of other photographs and drawings. Published 1983-89, hardbound, 8 x 11" Click on headline for descriptions of each volume $129.00 |
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| Rich in Colonial history, Richmond, Virginia, has an organ heritage which this 266-page book explores, from the very earliest arrivals of two organs in 1816, one at St. John’s Church, where Patrick Henry uttered his most famous words, the other at Monumental Church. Richmond had or has organs from most major builders and some almost unique ones, especially more than a dozen built 1830-1878 by Henry Erben. Donald Traser gathers stoplists, photographs, anecdotes, and histories the organ histories of the city’s many churches in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as biographical notes on the organists who played and play them. $29.95 |
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| Alas, OUT-OF-PRINT The publisher of this book, Western Michigan University, has no more copies and has no plans to print more. Therefore, it cannot be ordered as of June, 2003. As a highly-skilled voicer, Mr. Monette instructs in voicing organ pipes through photographs, drawings, and verbal description. Formerly associated with Aeolian-Skinner and Casavant, he in his book embraces pipe scaling, fabrication, voicing, regulation, cone tuning, and reed pipes, as well as a glossary, bibliography, and index. Hardbound, 168 pages, 91 illustrations. |
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| Latest Editions feature organs in Buffalo, South Central Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Boston, Montreal, and Denver. Published annually by OHS in conjuction with its national conventions, the Organ Handbook surveys historic organs in various geographical locations. Included are stoplists, photographs, recital programs, and historical information for up to three dozen organs per issue. Select from 28 editions. |
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| Alan Laufman writes the rich organ history of the town near Boston that abounded and still abounds in fine instruments. Many photographs, color and black & white. $24.95 |
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| Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide an accurate and vivid picture of Bach's world and of his far-reaching influence. $19.95 |
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| Low-Cost Paperback Edition! Christoph Wolff, the eminent Bach authority, provides a biographical portrait using documentary materials on Bach’s life and his complete musical works and their sources to study Bach within his family and community and also within the intellectual and cultural milieu of his time. A must-read for performers of Bach's music. $19.95 |
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| Now at a reduced price! J. S. Bach as Organist A landmark study of J. S. Bach and the organ, these essays by 15 contributors widely influence and inform those who play the organ works of J. S. Bach. $24.95 |
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| The organ historian, teacher and musician concentrates on the Middle Ages (750-1250), with glimpses into organ culture at chronological mileposts. 397 pages, softbound. $58.00 |
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| With entries for 17,000 composers, this Third Edition more than triples in size the original edition of Dr. Henderson’s directory of published music composed for the pipe organ, including biographies of the composers. By far, it is the most comprehensive resource available. Arranged alphabetically by composer with works listed in chronological order, these entries are definitive. 1,400 publishers are identified with addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail and websites. Life dates, birth places, and biographies are included for each composer. Additions include a chronological list of Parisian titulaires, along with other useful appendices (such as a comparison of the contents of the editions of the Bach organ works). 1,006 pages. $110.00 |
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| Back in print The first volume of this 2-volume work traces the development of organ literature and its various geographical schools, places the composers in a historical background of contemporary events and lists Bach organ compositions and compares their editions. The second volume contains a biographical catalog of organ composers, including biographical sketches; alphabetical listings of each composer’s works; the publisher, catalog number, and copyright date of the works and a publisher’s directory. There is also a list of German chorale translations and a new list of corollary readings. Two volumes, 1,304 pages total, third edition (1995). Click to order Vol. 1 for $45.50 and Vol. 2 for $93. |
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| Ralph Downes' adventures with organ builders and his theories offer many levels for enjoyment: from the technical to an utterly fascinating story of a unique man’s lifetime adventures, including his epoch-making design of the organ in London's Royal Festival Hall. $24.95 |
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| Gathered here are eight essays presented at the Tannenberg Symposium (concerning America's first native-trained organbuilder) by Barbara Owen, Raymond J. Brunner, Laurence Libin, Timothy Duncan, Nola Reed Knouse, Paul Larson, and Alice Caldwell. Edited by Carol Traupman-Carr $32.95 |
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| An account of the rise to brilliance of the organ profession in France and Belgium Back in Print! Orpha Ochse traces the golden age of the organ profession in France and Belgium through the careers of Saint-Saëns, Franck, Gigout, Guilmant, Widor, and other influential figures. $24.95 |
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| Organ terms in 19 languages are compiled on 508 pages with many helpful line drawings. $42.00 |
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by Laurie Shulman The success of the C. B. Fisk organ at the home of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra has been the catalyst for concert hall organ projects in many places including Philadelphia, Seattle, Florida, Chicago, California, etc. The largest single chapter in the book is devoted to the organ and includes many photographs and telling interviews with its designers and builders.$37.95 |
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| Rollin Smith's superb book on Louis Vierne, profusely illustrated, is the first major study of the great student of Franck and Widor, and organist of Notre Dame in Paris for 37 years. More than 800 pages! $75.00 |
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| A brand-new book analyses the organ works including biography, history, and instruments as they relate to the works. $64.00 |
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| A 24-page booklet published in 1917 by the Wanamaker store in Philadelphia elegantly describes in prose and photographs the largest organ in the world. Click for a full description. $6.00 |
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| Complied & Annotated by Allen Kinzey & Sand Lawn. This annotated list of organs built by the Skinner Organ Co.,
Aeolian-Skinner, and by E. M. Skinner after his disassociation with Aeolian-Skinner is now updated to September 1997.
This enlarged Second Edition adds for each organ the number of stops, ranks, registers and pipes, new data gathered
since the first publication of this work in 1992, and two new sections: organs built by Aeolian and subsequently moved or
altered by Aeolian-Skinner and a sampling of repairs and modifications made by the firm. The organs are listed by opus number and by city and state. Enlarged to 264 pages, softbound. $14.95 |
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| Superior examples of 19th-century British organs and liturgical decor, with many excellent illustrations. $32.00 |
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| Gaylord Carter’s career as a secular organist spans most of this century. Beginning in the early days of silent movies, he held forth at the Million Dollar Theatre with Paul Whiteman and an orchestra in the pit, and later, in the golden days of the theatre organ, he played at the Paramount in Los Angeles. This anecdotal autobiography was dictated in 1969 and brought current to 1995 for this publication as Carter approached his 90th birthday. 226 pages, hardbound $22.50 |
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| GLORIOUS COLOR bounds from 94 pages of exquisite Art Deco decoration and architecture chronicled in this handsome book devoted to the history and revival of the famous Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California. Constructed in 1930 to the elaborately exuberant design of renowned San Francisco architect Timothy Pflueger, this fabulous theatre-palace received the most painstaking restoration imaginable as described in the book’s well-written commentary. Several pages are devoted to the story of the theatre’s Wurlitzers, including the present reconstructed and enlarged Publix IV-class Wurlitzer of 27 ranks. Hardbound. $12.00 |
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| THE COMPLETE GUIDE to the organ of 28,500 pipes at Philadelphia’s great department store includes a thorough history of the organ, photos of the myriad pipe chambers, vintage views of the store, an illustrated section on celebrities associated with the organ, and a complete specification, including pipe and mixture composition details. Produced by the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ. 36 pages, soft, $7.00 |
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| BY FAR THE MOST POPULAR book about an organbuilder, this book reveals the personal life, the professional triumphs and defeats of this most original and influential of America’s organbuilders in the Twentieth Century. These 327 pages include a large collection of photographs from Ernest Skinner’s own camera and other sources and stoplists of 24 organs. Everyone devoted to the organ and its music will be fascinated. Hardbound $28.00 |
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| Michael Murray draws on his personal acquaintances with Messiaen, Langlais, and Dupré as well as period documents, original accounts, early records, and other primary sources to sketch vivid portraits of these important 20th-century composers as well as their predecessors — Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Franck, Widor, and Vierne. Murray provides students and admirers of French music and culture many details of the lives of these eminent Frenchmen and explores the relationship between organbuilding and composition as an insight into interpretation. $50.00 |
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| Writes Haig Mardirosian in the The American Organist, ‘‘For those of us who first opened their ears upon the sonic splendors of the organ in the Harrison era . . . Charles Callahan’s compilation of primary documents will not only serve to transport us back to our sweet youths, but to clarify and put into mature perspective much of the muddled memories and mistaken impressions . . .’’ The forces acting on the 20th-century American organ are revealed in more than 300 energetic and detailed letters written 1924-1958 by G. Donald Harrison, Henry Willis III, organ theorist Sen. Emerson Richards, and many others. Theirs was an organ world increasingly dominated by Æolian-Skinner and its American Classic Organ. Observing the revolution in their own correspondence are E. M. Skinner and the principals of Austin, Estey, Möller, Kimball, Welte, Wurlitzer, Casavant, Wicks and famous organists and theorists. 557 pages, many stoplists and photographs, hardbound. $34.00 |
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| This Dover edition of the Audsley classic from 1921 includes a four-page introduction by American organ historian Rollin Smith. Smith presents a very brief biography of Audsley and reviews Audsley's association with the organ. The book itself is a standard reference and gives the names of organ stops, defines them, and traces their origins, describes their construction, their tonal characteristics, and their use in registration. Stops are arranged alphabetically. A must for any organ library. Soft-bound. 298 pages. $15.95 |
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| Reproduced in facsimile, the opus lists published by the Boston firm of E. & G. G. Hook, then Hook & Hastings, comprise 2,384 organs built 1829 – 1935. In addition, the compiler has arranged all of the organs by city and state. Reproductions of promotional literature produced 1857–1927 includes 45 stoplists, 120 engravings and photographs, and discussions of the firm’s history, placement of an organ, selection of stops, tuning and maintenance, terms of purchase, sample contracts, residence organs, automatic players, types of action, etc. Hardbound, 333 pages, illustrated. $19.95 |
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| AMERICAN ORGANBUILDING as it dawned and was practiced by more than 30 Pennsylvanians from 1733 to 1900 is comprehensively treated in this book by organbuilder Ray Brunner. His work includes the builders, organists, music, details of organ construction, and the ways organs were used in secular settings and in many different church denominations. Through more than 165 photographs (many in color) and text derived from years of research, the author traces the rich heritage of essentially German baroque organs built in 18th-Century America and their assimilation into the mainstream of American organbuilding by 1900. 248 pages, 8 x 11". $35.00 |
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| EDWARD HODGES came to America in 1838, steeped in the English traditions and church music. The book traces Hodges’ introduction of this tradition in New York City at Trinity Church, Wall Street, affecting most denominations ever since. Hodges’ consultations on organs in England are detailed, as is his work with Henry Erben to build in 1845 America’s largest organ. 254 pp., hardbound, illustrated, stoplists. $29.00 |
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| This ambitious magazine began publication in 1971 with ‘’orientation . . . toward the polyphonic organ, both historical and contemporary, including its literature, its tonal and visual design, its architectural environment and any other aspect which may augment an understanding of the art of the organ.’’ Lavishly illustrated, the eight issues published by 1974 present international coverage with an American outlook. Writers include Joseph Blanton, George Bozeman, Robert N. Cavarra, Edward Flint, Susi Jeans, Esko Loewen, Noel Mander, Fritz Noack, John Ogasapian, John Ferris, Chick Holtkamp, John Schantz, Robert Sipe, Donald R. M. Paterson, Gunther Schuller, Sidney Beck, Finn Viderø, Georges A. Wild, Donald Willing, James Wyly, and Romano H. Zölss. Each issue also contains reviews, letters, recital programs, and editorials. A set of all eight issues totalling 440 pages, Regular price: $12.00 Sale price: $7.00 |
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| Back in Print! This expanded edition of an important treatise by Fenner Douglass features an extensively revised bibliography by Kimberly Marshall and a chapter titled ‘’Toward the Restoration of Grace in Early French Organ Ornamentation’’ reprinted from Charles Brenton Fisk, Organ Builder 251 pages, softbound. $27.00 |
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| Collected and edited by Nicholas Thistlethwaite & Geoffrey Webber, these essays discuss all aspects of the organ and its music, ". . . so that even if the modern player is unable to play a particular piece on the most appropriate type of organ, he or she will be able to understand to a fair extent the music as it was conceived for a particular school of organ design and thus be able to reinterpret it as requried on the instrument available." Reviews the October, 1999, issue of The American Organist, "For scholarly yet accessible surveys of the major schools of organ music, [this book] stands alone." $21.95 |
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| Stephen Bicknell deals with English organs and their builders in their full historical and cultural context from about 900 A. D. to the 1990s. $41.00 |
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| How to specify leather that will last for 40-60 years or more. Especially important information for the construction or repair, or rebuilding of an electropneumatic organ. $9.95 |
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| This exquisite edition is available in very limited quantity. Presented in two 11" x 17" volumes weighing 17 pounds, it includes 400 pages of text and 137 full-page or larger illustrations, all printed on Perma-Life paper. The volumes are hand sewn and are robust in binding to give good service in the workshop. This magnificent work was originally published in four installments which appeared 1776-1778. Click headline for further description $550.00 |
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| The most useful and comprehensive resource that an organ committee could hope to read $6.95 |
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| Years of experience as an acoustician and church musician are applied to a practical method of determining and achieving acoustical design for the worship space. Included are: placement of participants, instruments; building materials and furnishings; geometric arrangement of walls, surfaces and spaces; reverberation; and public address systems. $5.00 |
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| Essays by an acoustician, an architect, a musician, an organbuilder, a theologian and a pastor provide solid advice. Booklet $6.00 |
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| This book on the structure, design, maintenance, history, and function of the organ addresses construction of the organ, what the architect should know, how the pastor and congregation should plan, maintenance, service playing, a brief history, and notes for the organist. It provides a list of organ music, a bibliography, and a 14"-square fold-out of an organ’s internal mechanism. It is quite technical. $17.00 |
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| Compiled by D. DeWitt Wasson, this 3-volume compendium not only indexes 33,907 hymntunes but also lists every publication of each one. There are metrical, and melodic indices as well as indices of sources (with lifedates of composers or publication dates), hymnals, hymnals by denomination, composers, editors of collections, and others. A thoroughgoing description and very positive review appear in the October, 1999, issue of The American Organist. Regular price: $335.00 Sale price: $315.00 |
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| Especially useful to those who are trying to make sense of organ mechanisms, terms and jargon, such as "unification," "registration," "stops," "ranks." etc. $6.00 |
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| A pioneer Texas organbuilder, Wandke immigrated in 1855 to build organs on the frontier. This biography also describes extant organs. Extensive appendices include diaries and notes. 100 pages hardbound Click for more description $19.95 |
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| In the 1920s and '30s, Alexander Shreiner (who became organist of the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle in 1939) began a stellar career in Southern California, first becoming a theatre organist in 1917 in Salt Lake City, Utah, where his family had moved from Nürnberg, Germany, in 1912 as members of the Mormon church. This book traces that career, the instruments he played in churches and theatres, the works he played, and his program notes on the repertoire. Regular price: $35.00 Sale price: $25.00 |
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| From early essays (1949-51) on European organs to autobiographical reflections, these collected essays by Robert Noehren trace his influential development and the changing styles of American organbuilding and organ playing. Click on picture to read an enlightening review of the book and of a retrospective CD. $37.50 |
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| Concentrating on ten instruments by Quakertown, Pennsylvania, organbuilder Chalres F. Durner (1838-1914) and his son Charles E. Durner (1863-1932), the author sets out to sutdy the organists who played them, their families and students, triumphs and tragedies. $33.00 |
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| Published 4-times a year by OHS since 1956 as the nation's only journal dedicated to its organ history, back issues are available for $5 each; entire whole volumes with four issues in each volume are $18 each. An index is available for $7.50. Also click here for subscription information. |
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| These books and videotapes are for those who must make decisions regarding organ selection, repair, rebuilding, and fund raising, especially for worship spaces and institutions. Informational and motivational, these items equip a committee with solid help in making a good decision. Also, several items are helpful in the design of new or remodelling of existing worship space. Click on the headline for descriptions of each item and to order. |
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| Oldest? Largest? Unique? Browse our collection of books about and recordings made on the world's largest, oldest, and unique organs. |
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| Compiled from historical sources and the work of various researchers, this guide gathers basic information on six thousand organbuilders and firms in the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It shows dates, company affiliations, family relationships, etc. Arranged as a biographical dictionary, it includes sources of the information presented, a geographical index of firms, subject index, and patents in organbuilding. This resource was originally published by OHS in 1991 as a 256-page book, and the printed version is now out-of-print and unavailable. This version was updated and enlarged by the author in 1997 and now contains 314 pages which are available as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) Download only (1.6 Megabytes) To download, select this item below. The download will become available when you check out. (Note: Even if your order consists entirely of downloads, you must select a shipping option. Though the cost of shipping will appear on the online receipt, the shipping amount will not be charged to your credit card.) $10.00 |
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| The Show Goes On at an Indiana treasure. $21.95 |
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