A List of Organs Installed and Under Construction by Austin Organ Company
Title | A List of Organs Installed and Under Construction by Austin Organ Company PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Organ Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Organ (Musical instrument) |
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The Organ
Title | The Organ PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Bush |
Publisher | Routledge |
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.
Austin Organs
Title | Austin Organs PDF eBook |
Author | Orpha Ochse |
Publisher | |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Organ (Musical instrument) |
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John Austin pioneered the transformation of complicated organ mechanisms into marvels of elegant simplicity and reliability, taming the problems of early electric-action pipe organs and paving the way to great success in becoming the organbuilder of choice to America's "carriage trade" churches and institutions. Through more than a century, the style of Austin organs has echoed general trends in American musical taste. Those trends and the political and economic situations that molded the 20th-century organ bring to sharper focus a comprehension of the past century's music, musicians and organs. Read of one man's plan to acquire all of America's large organbuilders, of the Austin firm's relationship to other firms, of the people who have designed, built, and sold Austin organs, and of major organbuilders associated with Austin including Robert Hope-Jones, Robert Pier Elliot, Carlton Michell, Edwin Votey, Philipp Wirsching, James B. Jamison, Felix and Otto Schoenstein, Richard Piper, Henry Willis, and dozens more. Histories of famous Austin organs are recounted in detail. Tonal and technical descriptions of many organs illustrate instruments of various sizes and purposes in each decade. Of 2,781 Austin organs built through 1999, several early ones survive with few opus 2 built in 1894 in Detroit; opus 22 (1898) in Hartford, Connecticut; and opus 92 (1903) in Denver. Great municipal organs of the 1910s and 1920s, exuberant expressions of civic pride, still thrill audiences with majestic tuttis and rainbows of contrasting tone colors. As this book comes off the press, large organs completed in the factory at Hartford, Connecticut, crown more than a hundred years of Austin organs.
Austin Organs
Title | Austin Organs PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Organ Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 61 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Musical instruments industry |
ISBN |
A List of Organs Installed and Under Construction by Austin Organ Company
Title | A List of Organs Installed and Under Construction by Austin Organ Company PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Organ Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1935 |
Genre | Organ (Musical instrument) |
ISBN |
List of Austin Organs
Title | List of Austin Organs PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Organ Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Organ (Musical instrument) |
ISBN |
An Historical Overview of Austin Organs, Inc., Organ Architects & Builders
Title | An Historical Overview of Austin Organs, Inc., Organ Architects & Builders PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Organ Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 3 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Austin family |
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