All The Stops

All The Stops
Author: Craig Whitney
Publisher: Public Affairs
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2004-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1586482629

Whitney's "exuberant" ("New York Times") history of the pipe organ introduces readers to the music and majesty of the organ. A "New York Times" 2003 Notable Book.

The Organ

The Organ
Author: Douglas Bush
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135947961

The Encyclopedia of Organ includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete A-Z reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world.

The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music

The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music
Author: Rollin Smith
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN:

It will soon be 20 years since The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music was published by the Organ Historical Society. This landmark volume has been out of print for so long that copies now sell for more than $500. A second edition, revised and greatly expanded, is now in publication and, in addition to emendations and many new photographs, the annotated opus list of over 900 organs (with contract dates, prices, additions, and alterations) has been updated to reflect subsequent activity. The Aeolian Pipe Organ and Its Music is the story of America's oldest, largest, and longest-lived residence organ company, whose instruments provided music in the home in the era before the wide-spread use of the phonograph and radio. A list of Aeolian patrons is a veritable Who's Who in American business, industry, and finance. This book not only documents the organs, but also the music they were programmed to reproduce, Aeolian's commissions from Saint-Sa ns, Stravinsky, Stokowski, and Humperdinck, and their reproduction of performances of renowned artists. A special section features a wealth of unpublished photographs of Aeolian installations. In addition to a study of the 54 recording organists, dozens of stoplists are included and complete catalogues of Aeolian organ rolls. As a companion volume to Rollin Smith's Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous, this notable publication makes for reading as fascinating as it is entertaining.

Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous

Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous
Author: Rollin Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2014
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: 9780913499450

This book recounts a time when the organ was not only a symbol of those who had arrived socially, but was considered the ultimate appointment of the luxurious home. Included are royalty, captains of industry, famous organists and composers, organbuilders, and those whose names may be less familiar, but who were patrons of the king of instruments on a lavish scale.--Publisher.

The Organ

The Organ
Author: Douglas Earl Bush
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2006
Genre: Organ (Musical instrument)
ISBN: 0415941741

Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments that predated the piano. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instruments from around the world.