Making of the Victorian Organ

Klappentext This important book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during the most innovative fifty years in its history. Zusammenfassung This important 1990 book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during the most innovative fifty years in its history. Richly illustrated with photographs and specially drawn diagrams! this book is indispensable for all those! professionals or amateurs! who have an interest in the organ. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: 1. The English organ in 1820; 2. Organs and organ-building, 1820-40; 3. The Insular movement; 4. Three case studies; 5. The Bristol reformation; Part II: 6. Bach, Mendelssohn and the English organ, 1810-45; 7. The German system; 8. The work of William Hill, 1839-55; 9. The Transition; Part III: 10. The emergence of the Victorian organ, 1850-70; 11. Music and mechanics; 12. German influences, 1855-70; 13. Hill & Son, 1856-70; 14. Henry Willis; 15. Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: N.j. Thistlethwaite, Nicholas Thistlethwaite, Nicholas (Guildford Cathedral) Thistlethwaite
• Assisted by: John Butt (Editor), Laurence Dreyfus (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.1999
• EAN: 9780521663649
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66364-9
• No. of pages: 610
• Series: Cambridge Musical Texts and Mo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Organology