The Making of the Victorian OrganThis important 1990 book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during the most innovative fifty years in its history. |
Contents
The English organ in 1820 | xxiii |
SPECIFICATION | 8 |
WINDING | 17 |
LAYOUT AND ACTION | 21 |
CASE AND CONSOLE | 27 |
PIPEWORK | 34 |
Organs and organbuilding 182040 | 43 |
BUSINESS AND WORKSHOP | 53 |
GRAY DAVISON 184051 | 255 |
THE RISE OF THE CONCERT ORGAN | 264 |
THE 1850s | 268 |
Part 3 | 287 |
The emergence of the Victorian organ 185070 | 289 |
ECCLESIOLOGY | 304 |
CASEWORK | 317 |
Music and mechanics | 334 |
CHURCHES AND ORGANS | 59 |
ORGAN CASES | 67 |
The Insular Movement | 80 |
THE BACKGROUND | 82 |
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES | 87 |
Three case studies | 112 |
BIRMINGHAM TOWN HALL 183440 | 121 |
ST GEORGES HALL LIVERPOOL 184355 | 129 |
The Bristol reformation | 144 |
COMPASSES | 149 |
UPPERWORK | 150 |
SWELLS | 151 |
Part 2 | 155 |
Bach Mendelssohn and the English organ 181045 | 157 |
MENDELSSOHN S ADVOCACY OF BACH | 158 |
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES OF BACHS ORGAN MUSIC 181045 | 166 |
FOREIGN TRAVEL | 169 |
The German System | 175 |
GAUNTLETT | 179 |
HILL | 189 |
INSPIRATION | 204 |
The work of William Hill 183955 | 209 |
ST MARYATHILL 1848 | 216 |
KIDDERMINSTER TOWN HALL 1855 | 221 |
LAYOUT AND ACTION | 223 |
PIPEWORK | 230 |
CONSOLES AND CASES | 240 |
The Transition | 250 |
ACTIONS | 343 |
OTHER INNOVATIONS | 355 |
CONSOLES | 361 |
THE INTRODUCTION OF EQUAL TEMPERAMENT | 365 |
German influences 185570 | 368 |
PREPARING THE GROUND | 370 |
EDMUND SCHULZE | 377 |
THE RECEPTION OF GERMAN INFLUENCES | 382 |
Hill Son 185670 | 389 |
THE ULSTER HALL BELFAST 1862 | 392 |
ST JOHN HYDE PARK CRESCENT 1865 | 395 |
STOP LISTS | 396 |
PIPEWORK | 401 |
Henry Willis | 406 |
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL 1854 | 411 |
ST GEORGE PRESTON 1865 | 415 |
UNION CHAPEL ISLINGTON 1877 | 420 |
STOP LISTS | 426 |
LAYOUT AND ACTION | 429 |
PIPEWORK | 430 |
Epilogue | 436 |
Specifications | 438 |
Documents | 501 |
Notes | 508 |
List of references | 531 |
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