All the stops : the glorious pipe organ and its American masters / Craig R. Whitney.
2003
ML561 .W55 2003 (Mapit)
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Title
All the stops : the glorious pipe organ and its American masters / Craig R. Whitney.
Author
Whitney, Craig R., 1943-
ISBN
1586482629 (pbk.)
1586481738
9781586481735
9781586482626 (pbk.)
1586481738
9781586481735
9781586482626 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Public Affairs, c2003.
Language
English
Description
xxv, 321 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
ML561 .W55 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
786.5/19/092273
Summary
For centuries, pipe organs stood at the summit of musical and technological achievement, admired as the most complex and intricate mechanisms the human race had yet devised. In All the stops, Craig Whitney journeys through the history of the American pipe organ and brings to life the curious characters who have devoted their lives to its music. From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, organ music was wildly popular in America. Organ builders in New York and New England could hardly fill the huge demand for both concert hall and home organs. Master organbuilders found ingenious ways of using electricity to make them sound like orchestras. Organ players developed cult followings and bitter rivalries. One movement arose to restore to American organs the clarity and precision that baroque organs had in centuries past, while another took electronic organs to the rock concert halls, where younger listeners could be found. But while organbuilders and organists were fighting with each other, popular audiences lost interest in the organ. Today, organs are beginning to make a comeback in concert halls and churches across America.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes discography (p. 273-274), bibliographical references (p. 301-303), and index.
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Table of Contents
Ernest M. Skinner and the orchestral organ in New England
Monster organs, mammoth audiences
G. Donald Harrison and Aeolian-Skinner: the American classic organ
The invention of E. Power Biggs
"The Fox"
"The way God intended organs to be built"
"Heavy organs"
Back to the future
Reborn.
Monster organs, mammoth audiences
G. Donald Harrison and Aeolian-Skinner: the American classic organ
The invention of E. Power Biggs
"The Fox"
"The way God intended organs to be built"
"Heavy organs"
Back to the future
Reborn.