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THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGAN IN HISTORY.

THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGAN IN HISTORY. Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University...

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DUDLEY BUCK.

PROFESSOR AND LECTURER OF THE DEPARTMENT. New Edition, with Illustrations. LONDON: W. REEVES, 83, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C. Office of "The Musical Standard."...

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SECTION I.

Ladies and Gentlemen:— It having become my duty to deliver this, the inaugural lecture of the organ department attached to this institution, I have found myself considerably embarrassed as to choice of subjects. The trouble lay in the quantity of material at hand, and not in any lack of it. The history of the Organ runs back so far into the centuries, that no matter what point one might select for examination, it can scarcely be brought into the scope of a lecture except in a very empty and skel

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SECTION II.

The organ nomenclature has, as is the way of the world, changed somewhat from age to age. In accounts of the old English organ, we frequently find this and that church being referred to as possessing a "payre of organs." This has been variously interpreted, some supposing it to refer to organs of two manuals, which explanation seems natural enough; but the best authorities explain it as meaning an organ which possesses more than one rank of pipes, or more than one stop. Rimbault, who takes this

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SECTION III.

In the London "Spectator" of Feb. 8, 1712, is the following announcement:— "Whereas, Mr. Abraham Jordan, senior and junior, have, with their own hands, joynery excepted, made and erected a very large organ in St. Magnus' church, at the foot of London bridge, consisting of four sets of keys, one of which is adapted to the art of emitting the sounds by swelling the notes, which was never in any organ before ; this instrument will be publicly opened on Sunday next, the performance by Mr. John Robin

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LIST OF BOOKS ON MUSIC

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ÆSTHETICS, CRITICISMS, ESSAYS.

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BOOKS ABOUT MUSICIANS AND THEIR WORKS. I.—COLLECTED.

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BOOKS ABOUT MUSICIANS AND THEIR WORKS. II.—INDIVIDUAL.

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HISTORY OF MUSIC, AND OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

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ORCHESTRAL.

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ORGAN.

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THE TEMPLE EDITION OF ORGAN OVERTURES. (3 Staves).

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PIANO SOLO OVERTURES.

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PIANOFORTE.

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TECHNICAL AND THEORETICAL.

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VIOLIN AND STRINGED INSTRUMENTS.

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VOCAL.

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THE MUSIC STORY SERIES.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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