Organ As a Mirror of Its Time North European Reflections, 1610-2000Text and CD

Name: Organ As a Mirror of Its Time North European Reflections, 1610-2000Text and CD
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ISBN: 9780195144154

ISBN-10: 0195144155

ISBN-13: 9780195144154

Edition: 2002

Authors: Kerala J. Snyder

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Because it has always represented a rich collaboration of the music, art, architecture, handicraft and science of its day, the organ, more than any other instrument, continues to reflect the spirit of the age in which it was built. The Organ as a Mirror of its Time, the first book to consider this instrument's historical and cultural significance, reflects the efforts of twenty leading scholars of the organ. The book chronicles the history of six organs in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, at least one specimen for every century from 1600 to the present. By considering their original contexts and their histories since they were built, as well as the extraordinary coincidences that link…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/18/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Kerala Snyder is professor emerita of musicology at the Eastman School of Music.



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Praeludium



Organs as Historical and Aesthetic Mirrors




Court and City



Exordium: Organs by Compenius (1610) and Schnitger (1693)



Ducal Courts and Hanseatic Cities: Political and Historical Perspectives




The Genesis and Radiance of a Court Organ




Hamburg Organists in Lutheran Worship




The Organ in Seventeenth-Century Cosmology



Interludium Primum



An Ideal Organ and Its Experts Across the Seventeenth Century




A Large European Organ in a Small Factory Town



Exordium: The Cahman Organ at Leufsta Bruk (1728)



An Architectural Tour of Leufsta Bruk




The Cahman Tradition and Its German Roots




From Cathedral to Rural Parish: Organs and Organists in Eighteenth-Century Sweden




Bach Comes Late to Leufsta Bruk: An Oral History



Interludium Secundum



The Musical Cultures of Eighteenth-Century Germany




A French Organ in Copenhagen



Exordium: The Cavaille-Coll Organ in the Jesus Church, Copenhagen (1890)



From Beer to Bricks to Organ Pipes: Carl Jacobsen and the Jesus Church




Technology and the Organ in the Nineteenth Century




Aristide Cavaille-Coll: Master of Masters




Walcker and Cavaille-Coll: A Franco-German Competition



Interludium Tertium



On the Organ Problem [As Seen in 1930]




Revival and Renewal



Exordium: The Marcussen Organ in Oscar's Church, Stockholm (1949)



The Organs in Oscar's Church: Sources of Inspiration--and Some Controversy




The Taciturn Charisma of Alf Linder




From Darmstadt to Stockholm: Tracing the Swedish Contribution to the Development of a New Organ Style




The Organ as Scrying Glass: Images from the Organ Reform Movement



Postludium



A New Organ for a New Millennium



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