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Book Synopsis A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England by : Gordon D.W. Curtis
Download or read book A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England written by Gordon D.W. Curtis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs, mostly for churches and chapels in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, but also for locations scattered south of a line from the Wirral to the Wash. Gordon Curtis places this work of a provincial organ builder in the wider context of English musical life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. An introductory chapter reviews the provincial musical scene and sets the organ in the context of religious worship, public concerts and domestic music-making. The book relates the biographical details of Sweetland's family and business history using material obtained from public and family records. Curtis surveys Sweetland's organ- building work in general and some of his most important organs in detail, with patents and other inventions explored. The musical repertoire of the provinces, particularly with regard to organ recitals, is discussed, as well as noting Sweetland's acquaintances, other organ builders, architects and artists. Part II of the book consists of a Gazetteer of all known organs by Sweetland organized by counties. Each entry contains a short history of the instrument and its present condition. Since there is no definitive published list of his work, and as all the office records were lost in a fire many years ago, this will be the nearest approach to a comprehensive list for this builder.
Book Synopsis A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England by : Gordon D.W. Curtis
Download or read book A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England written by Gordon D.W. Curtis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs, mostly for churches and chapels in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, but also for locations scattered south of a line from the Wirral to the Wash. Gordon Curtis places this work of a provincial organ builder in the wider context of English musical life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. An introductory chapter reviews the provincial musical scene and sets the organ in the context of religious worship, public concerts and domestic music-making. The book relates the biographical details of Sweetland's family and business history using material obtained from public and family records. Curtis surveys Sweetland's organ- building work in general and some of his most important organs in detail, with patents and other inventions explored. The musical repertoire of the provinces, particularly with regard to organ recitals, is discussed, as well as noting Sweetland's acquaintances, other organ builders, architects and artists. Part II of the book consists of a Gazetteer of all known organs by Sweetland organized by counties. Each entry contains a short history of the instrument and its present condition. Since there is no definitive published list of his work, and as all the office records were lost in a fire many years ago, this will be the nearest approach to a comprehensive list for this builder.
Book Synopsis Organ-building in Georgian and Victorian England by : Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Download or read book Organ-building in Georgian and Victorian England written by Nicholas Thistlethwaite and published by Music in Britain. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established for the building of keyboard instruments, by the mid-1790s the workshop of brothers Robert and William Gray had become one of the leading organ-makers in London, with instruments in St Paul's, Covent Garden and St Martin-in-the-Fields. Under William's son John Gray, the firm built some of the largest English organs of the 1820s and 1830s, as well as exporting major instruments to Boston and Charleston in the United States. In the early 1840s, with the marriage of John Gray's daughter to Frederick Davison - a member of the circle of Bach-enthusiasts around the composer Samuel Wesley - the firm became 'Gray & Davison'. Davison was a progressive figure who reformed workshop practices, commissioned a purpose-built organ factory in Euston Road and opened a branch workshop in Liverpool to exploit the booming market for church organs in Lancashire and the north-west. Under Davison's management, the firm was responsible for significant mechanical and musical innovations, especially in the design of concert organs. Instruments such as those built in the 1850s for Glasgow City Hall, the Crystal Palace and Leeds Town Hall were heavily influenced by contemporary French practice; they were designed to perform a repertoire dominated by orchestral transcriptions. Many of the instruments made by the firm have been lost or altered; but the surviving organs in St Anne, Limehouse (1851), Usk Parish Church (1861) and Clumber Chapel (1889) testify to the quality and importance of Gray & Davison's work. This book charts the firm's history from its foundation in 1772 to Frederick Davison's death in 1889. At the same time, it describes changes in musical taste and liturgical use and explores such topics as provincial music festivals, the town hall organ, domestic music-making and popular entertainment, the building of churches and the impact on church music of the Evangelical and Tractarian movements. It will appeal to organ aficionados interested in the evolution of the English organ in the later Georgian and Victorian eras, as well as other music scholars and cultural historians. NICHOLAS THISTLETHWAITE has written extensively on the history of the English organ and other aspects of English church music, and his book, The making of the Victorian organ (1990) is recognised as the standard work on the subject. He has acted as consultant for the restoration and rebuilding of organs, most recently at St Edmundsbury Cathedral and Christ Church
Book Synopsis Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain by : Bennett Zon
Download or read book Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Bennett Zon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four Parts, 'Musical Cultures', 'Societies', 'National Music' and 'Methods', this volume assesses the role music performance plays in articulating significant trends and currents of the cultural life of the period and includes articles on performance and individual instruments; orchestral and choral ensembles; church and synagogue music; music societies; cantatas; vocal albums; the middle-class salon, conducting; church music; and piano pedagogy. An introduction explores Temperley's vast contribution to musicology, highlighting his seminal importance in creating the field of nineteenth-century British music studies, and a bibliography provides an up-to-date list of his publications, including books and monographs, book chapters, journal articles, editions, reviews, critical editions, arrangements and compositions. Fittingly devoted to a significant element in Temperley's research, this book provides scholars of all nineteenth-century musical topics the opportunity to explore the richness of Britain's musical history.
Book Synopsis The History of the English Organ by : Stephen Bicknell
Download or read book The History of the English Organ written by Stephen Bicknell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1996 book describes the history of organs built in England from AD 900 to the present day.
Book Synopsis The Making of the Victorian Organ by : Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Download or read book The Making of the Victorian Organ written by Nicholas Thistlethwaite and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important 1990 book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during the most innovative fifty years in its history.
Book Synopsis The Early English Organ Builders and Their Works by : Edward Francis Rimbault
Download or read book The Early English Organ Builders and Their Works written by Edward Francis Rimbault and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Organs of New South Wales by : Graeme David Rushworth
Download or read book Historic Organs of New South Wales written by Graeme David Rushworth and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Organ in New England by : Barbara Owen
Download or read book The Organ in New England written by Barbara Owen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Early English Organ Builders and Their Works, from the Fifteenth Century to the Period of the Great Rebellion by : Edward Francis Rimbault
Download or read book The Early English Organ Builders and Their Works, from the Fifteenth Century to the Period of the Great Rebellion written by Edward Francis Rimbault and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Early English Organ Builders and Their Works, from the Fifteenth Century to the Period of the Great Rebellion by : Edward F. Rimbault
Download or read book The Early English Organ Builders and Their Works, from the Fifteenth Century to the Period of the Great Rebellion written by Edward F. Rimbault and published by . This book was released on 1977-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600-1830 by : Michael I. Wilson
Download or read book The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600-1830 written by Michael I. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of chamber organs in Britain between 1600 and 1830. It takes account of foreign-made imports and embraces the United Kingdom as a whole. The author seeks to offer an assessment of the chamber organ both as a musical instrument and as a decorative icon of considerable social and artistic significance at a particular period in history. He also provides a record of surviving examples.
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Book Synopsis The Early English Organ Builders and Their Works by : Edward Francis Rimbault
Download or read book The Early English Organ Builders and Their Works written by Edward Francis Rimbault and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Freeman-Edmonds Directory of British Organ Builders: Persons (Abbey to Jury) by :
Download or read book The Freeman-Edmonds Directory of British Organ Builders: Persons (Abbey to Jury) written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era: Mann-Spin by :
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era: Mann-Spin written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Early English Organ Builders and Their Work by : Edward Francis Rimbault
Download or read book The Early English Organ Builders and Their Work written by Edward Francis Rimbault and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
