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The English organ: how it evolved through history - Classical ...
Early in the century, the English organ saw the first use and development of a Swell enclosure, a device that was to have long-lasting major effects on the nature of the English organ. Although details of its construction and functioning are vague, Abraham Jordan, a builder, claimed his swell box at St. Magnus, London Bridge, in 1712, was a new ...
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Introduction. The history of the organ in England is a long one, dating back to the tenth century at least. Sources from the late middle ages through the Renaissance give ample evidence of organs in the British Isles, particularly in association with monastic institutions, larger churches and cathedrals, and the royal chapel.
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- Dear Organ-Loving Friends,
- Some Historical Background on the English Cultural/Organ Scene:
- Organ Observations: Some Useful Terms
- Slider Chest - Spring Chest:
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Welcome aboard to the many of you who have participated in past PIPEDREAMS travels, certainly, but also particularly to those of you who have ventured to join our little throng for the first time. I hope you all will have an extraordinary experience! The history of the organ in England is somewhat curious. The term ‘insular’ comes to mind (litera...
To consider the history of a nation’s organs is to consider the history of its culture, politics and status. The organ is a mirror of its age. The earliest references to organs in England date from the 10th century, although frustratingly little is known about the details of these instruments for the next few centuries. A little more light emerges...
Since we will be visiting organs built over a period of more than three centuries, you’ll be exposed to a variety of diferent ‘schools of thought’ as regards the layout and mechanism of the instruments. Though a large book is really required to cover every detail, we will provide you with a few explanations here. We hope that they, your subsequent ...
The slider chest is the oldest, most reliable form of pipe organ chest still in use today. Originally, wind chests had only one style, the blockwerk chest, in which all ranks for any given note played all the time, with each note/pitch standing above its own ‘note channel’ in the wind chest. When a key was de-pressed, various mechanical linkages op...
Sources for compact discs are variable, and this is nowhere near a comprehensive list. If the label is of USA origin, I recommend that you access that label’s website directly. For foreign productions (the majority), try the Organ Historical Catalog online (ohscatalog. org), then arkivmusic.com, then amazonmusic.com). If these fail because a disc...
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Swell to Pedal Swell to Great Swell suboctave Great to Pedal
Open Diapason Geigen Bourdon Principal Octave Geigen Bass Flute Fifteenth Rohr Flute Open Flute Mixture Contra Posaune Posaune
Double Geigen Bourdon Open Diapason I Open Diapason II Geigen Hohl Flute Stopped Diapason Octave Geigen Principal Wald Flute Octave Quint Super Octave Mixture Sharp Mixture Harmonics Contra Posaune Posaune Octave Posaune
Double Open Diap. Open Diapason Open Diapason Stopd. Diapason Octave Flute Twelfth Fifteenth Flageolet Sesquialtra Mixture Posaune Clarion
Pedaal to Rugwerk Pedaal to Hoofdwerk Rugwerk to Hoofdewerk
Swell to Pedal Swell to Great Swell suboctave Great to Pedal Solo to Pedal Positive to Pedal Swell to Positive Solo to Positive Solo to Great Positive to Great Solo to Swell Solo Octave Solo Suboctave
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Oct 10, 2008 · The precise details of how, when, and how many times a particular biological organ has evolved may never be known with absolute certainty, but the great conceptual and empirical advances made over the past 150 years have provided a solid understanding of the processes involved.
- T. Ryan Gregory
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- 2008
The organ and the music written for it reached a pinnacle of importance during the seventeenth century, but one must look to developments during the Middle Ages to understand how the organ came to be a part of the structure—literally—of the major Christian churches, and to appreciate its extraordinary mechanical complexity.
The long story of the organ's development rightly begins with an ancient Alexandrian man by the name of Ctesibius. Employed as a barber's apprentice, Ctesibius became very familiar with large 1 C. A. Edwards, Organs and Organ-building: A Treatise on the History and Construction of the Organ, from its Origin to
