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The organ as a mirror of its time : north European reflections, 1610-2000 / edited by Kerala J. Snyder.

Contributor(s): Snyder, Kerala J
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002Description: xvii, 374 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195144155 (pbk.); 9780195144154 (pbk.); 0195144147; 9780195144147Subject(s): Organ (Musical instrument) -- Scandinavia -- History | Organ (Musical instrument) -- Germany, Northern -- HistoryDDC classification: 786.5/1948 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-360, discography (pages [361]-362), and index.
Contents:
Organs as historical and aesthetic mirrors / Kerala J. Snyder -- Exordium : organs by Compenius (1610) and Schnitger (1693) -- Ducal courts and Hanseatic cities : political and historical perspectives / Gisela Jaacks -- The genesis and radiance of a court organ / Harald Vogel -- Hamburg organists in Lutheran worship / William Porter -- The organ in seventeenth-century cosmology / Hans Davidsson -- An ideal organ and its experts across the seventeenth century / David Yearsley -- Exordium : the Cahman organ at Leufsta Bruk (1728) -- An architectural tour of Leufsta Bruk / Göran Söderström --The Cahman tradition and its German roots / Axel Unnerbäck -- From cathedral to rural parish : organs and organists in eighteenth-century Sweden / Eva Helenius-Öberg and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra -- Bach comes late to Leufsta Bruk : an oral history / Göran Blomberg -- The musical cultures of eighteenth-century Germany / Celia Applegate --
Exordium : the Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Jesus Church, Copenhagen (1890) -- From beer to bricks to organ pipes : Carl Jacobsen and the Jesus Church / Sverker Jullander -- Technology and the organ in the nineteenth century / Barbara Owen -- Aristide Cavaillé-Coll : master of masters / Jesse E. Eschbach and Lawrence Archbold -- Walcker and Cavaillé-Coll : a Franco-German competition / Paul Peeters -- On the organ problem (as seen in 1930) / Fritz Heitmann -- Exordium : the Marcussen organ in Oscar's Church, Stockholm (1949) -- The organs in Oscar's Church : sources of inspiration - and some controversy / Bengt Hambraeus -- The taciturn charisma of Alf Linder / Kimberly Marshall -- From Darmstadt to Stockhom : tracing the Swedish contribution to the development of a new organ style / Martin Herchenröder -- The organ as scrying glass : images from the organ reform movement / Joel Speerstra -- A new organ for a new millennium / Kerala J. Snyder.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-360, discography (pages [361]-362), and index.

Organs as historical and aesthetic mirrors / Kerala J. Snyder -- Exordium : organs by Compenius (1610) and Schnitger (1693) -- Ducal courts and Hanseatic cities : political and historical perspectives / Gisela Jaacks -- The genesis and radiance of a court organ / Harald Vogel -- Hamburg organists in Lutheran worship / William Porter -- The organ in seventeenth-century cosmology / Hans Davidsson -- An ideal organ and its experts across the seventeenth century / David Yearsley -- Exordium : the Cahman organ at Leufsta Bruk (1728) -- An architectural tour of Leufsta Bruk / Göran Söderström --The Cahman tradition and its German roots / Axel Unnerbäck -- From cathedral to rural parish : organs and organists in eighteenth-century Sweden / Eva Helenius-Öberg and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra -- Bach comes late to Leufsta Bruk : an oral history / Göran Blomberg -- The musical cultures of eighteenth-century Germany / Celia Applegate --

Exordium : the Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Jesus Church, Copenhagen (1890) -- From beer to bricks to organ pipes : Carl Jacobsen and the Jesus Church / Sverker Jullander -- Technology and the organ in the nineteenth century / Barbara Owen -- Aristide Cavaillé-Coll : master of masters / Jesse E. Eschbach and Lawrence Archbold -- Walcker and Cavaillé-Coll : a Franco-German competition / Paul Peeters -- On the organ problem (as seen in 1930) / Fritz Heitmann -- Exordium : the Marcussen organ in Oscar's Church, Stockholm (1949) -- The organs in Oscar's Church : sources of inspiration - and some controversy / Bengt Hambraeus -- The taciturn charisma of Alf Linder / Kimberly Marshall -- From Darmstadt to Stockhom : tracing the Swedish contribution to the development of a new organ style / Martin Herchenröder -- The organ as scrying glass : images from the organ reform movement / Joel Speerstra -- A new organ for a new millennium / Kerala J. Snyder.

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