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This is an "extended organ lesson" for the general musician, interested seminarian or churchman, and the student of organ-playing and organ-building. Organ Design and Organ Playing studies the relationship between good organ building and good organ playing. It emphasizes the importance of treating the organ as a pure musical instrument and explains how an organ designed to play the idiomatic literature is also well suited to liturgical use. Rediscovering Classic Organ Building in America is an illustrated history of modern classic organ building from Walter Holtkamp's Pioneering designs of the 1930's to the installation of the first completely American classic organ; the organ built by Charles Fisk and his associates at the old Andover Organ Co. and installed in 1961 in Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore.
Sunbury Press, 1975, 96 pgs, hardcover

Sunbury Press

Two Essays on Organ Design - by John T. Fesperman

$20.00

David C. Wickens, The Freeman-Edmonds Directory of British Organ Builders, Volume 3

Organ Historical Society

David C. Wickens, The Freeman-Edmonds Directory of British Organ Builders, Volume 3

$185.00

David C. Wickens, The Freeman-Edmonds Directory of British Organ Builders, Volume 2

Oxford University Press

David C. Wickens, The Freeman-Edmonds Directory of British Organ Builders, Volume 2

$185.00

Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments: The Piano - by Robert Palmieri

Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments: The Piano - by Robert Palmieri

$100.00

Dr. J. Butz, 432 pgs, hardcover, thread stitching, ribbon page marker, with illustrations, musical examples and dispositions, short English and French summaries, with CD

Organ Historical Society

Festschrift: Daniel Roth Licht im Dunkel (Lumière dans les ténèbres) - by Birger Petersen

$75.00

For the span of 100 years, Peter, Theodore, and J. Fred Wolle formed an American musical dynasty. While each musician was rooted in the Moravian musical tradition, their influence extended beyond the Moravian Church and became a major force in Bach performance in America.
Paul S. Larson received a BS in MusEd from Mansfield University and an MA from Eastman also in MusEd. Hee has a DMA from Temple. He is a professor emeritus of Moravian College where he taught music ed, on-Western music, ad music history
Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press; Rosemont Publishing, 2002; 425 pgs, hardcover

An American Musical Dynasty: A Biography of the Wolle Family of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - by Paul S. Larson

$25.00

Alan Miller Laufman (1935-2000) graduated from Arlington High School in 1953, and received a BA degree from Brandeis University in 1958 He was a member of the Organ Historical Society, and served as Board President from 1975-1979. For many years Alan wrote a column for The American Organist, and he chaired 3 Conventions for the Organ Historical Society. This small volume with many photos brings the instruments in Arlington, Massachusetts, to life.
The Boston Book Club, 2000, 56 pgs, hardcover

The Boston Organ Club

Pipe Organs of Arlington Massachusetts - by Alan M. Laufman

$29.95

This anthology presents many of the literary expressions from writers who have tried to capture the magic of the organ for more than 2000 years-in poetry and prose, in stories, in factual and fictional accounts, in simile, and in metaphor. Literature by approximately 100 different authors, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, to Garrison Keillor, George Bernard Shaw, and Virgil Thomson, among others, are linked with commentary, background, and biographical information. This is a book with a wide variety of moods, just as the organ is an instrument with a wide variety of sounds. All are sure to appeal to the lover of our favorite, gloriously melodic instrument.
Scarecrow Press, 2000; 210 pgs, hardcover

Scarecrow Press

Wond'rous Machine: A Literary Anthology Celebrating the Organ - by Robert N. Roth

$125.00

Strengholt Publishing, 1996; 542 pgs, soft cover, in Dutch

Organ Historical Society

Orgels bij de omroep in Nederland - by Cor L. Doesburg

$75.00

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