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A Supplement to Historic Organs of New South Wales

Author : Graeme David Rushworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
ISBN : 095884481X

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A Supplement to Historic Organs of New South Wales by Graeme David Rushworth Pdf

A supplement to the book located at B3/32/2.

Towards the Conservation and Restoration of Historic Organs

Author : Jim Berrow
Publisher : Church House Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0715175866

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Towards the Conservation and Restoration of Historic Organs by Jim Berrow Pdf

A collection of papers from a conference on organs, held in Liverpool in 1999. Areas covered include conservation related to musical performance and surviving historic instruments, concert organs and their repertoire, advisers, training, archaeology, and conservation plans.

Britishness Abroad

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Monographs
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780522853926

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Britishness Abroad by Anonim Pdf

As a global phenomenon Britishness encompassed trade, conquest and settlement and the development of imperial cultures within the vast reaches of the British Empire. At its zenith peoples around the world joined in shared traditions and common loyalties that were strenuously maintained; even those who contested its claims found it difficult to escape its effects. With the eclipse of British power and influence, the importance of this legacy has attracted increasing attention from researchers seeking to escape the confines of national histories. Britishness Abroad explores the cultural, economic and political aspects of Britishness in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Canada and South Africa, as well as in the United States and within Britain itself. Leading scholars consider the movement of people, money, technology, identities, beliefs and attitudes around the British world and examine what happened to Britishness as the Empire declined. Contributors: Stephen Banfield, Kate Darian-Smith, Anne Dickson-Waiko, Patricia Grimshaw, David Goodman, Jonathan Hyslop, John MacKenzie, Gary Magee and Andrew Thompson, Adele Perry, Bill Schwarz, Stuart Ward

Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne

Author : Simon Purtell
Publisher : Lyrebird Press Australia lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780734037855

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Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne by Simon Purtell Pdf

Examining the many controversies associated with pitch standards in Melbourne over more than a hundred years, Simon Purtell discovers their impact on the tuning of the city’s orchestras and organs, as well as its defence, municipal and Salvation Army bands. This fascinating history involves famous local and touring singers, conductors and organists, including Nellie Melba, Malcolm Sargent and William McKie, revealing just how complex a problem it was to ensure that Melbourne’s music-makers remained in tune. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has nothing on the saga of ‘Pitch, pitch, that cursed pitch’: the seemingly endless and frequently caustic attempts to establish a uniform performing pitch for music in the Antipodes. It is a typically Melburnian drama of mixed deference to Britain and stubborn upholding of local interests that the author so eloquently and patiently chronicles, and it ranges from the almost theocratic intervention of Dame Nellie Melba at the beginning of the twentieth century to the Stanthorpe Apple and Grape Harvest Festival of 1972. At the same time, it will have been a battle taking place comparably in all the major cities of the British Empire and beyond, though each with its peculiar twists and turns. What Simon Purtell has done is show us, in immaculate detail, just how pervasive and intricate, not to mention costly, this tectonic realignment of a fundamental element of musical infrastructure must have been in all places over a very long period of time” (Emeritus Professor Stephen Banfield, Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth, University of Bristol).

The Organ

Author : Douglas Bush,Richard Kassel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135947965

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The Organ by Douglas Bush,Richard Kassel Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Organ includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete A-Z reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world.

The First Fleet Piano: Volume One

Author : Geoffrey Lancaster
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781922144652

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The First Fleet Piano: Volume One by Geoffrey Lancaster Pdf

During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable part of social life, but also inspired the creation of an expressive and scintillating repertoire. Square pianos reinforced music as life’s counterpoint, and were played by royalty, by musicians of the highest calibre and by aspiring amateurs alike. On Sunday, 13 May 1787, a square piano departed from Portsmouth on board the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet, bound for Botany Bay. Who made the First Fleet piano, and when was it made? Who owned it? Who played it, and who listened? What music did the instrument sound out, and within what contexts was its voice heard? What became of the First Fleet piano after its arrival on antipodean soil, and who played a part in the instrument’s subsequent history? Two extant instruments contend for the title ‘First Fleet piano’; which of these made the epic journey to Botany Bay in 1787–88? The First Fleet Piano: A Musician’s View answers these questions, and provides tantalising glimpses of social and cultural life both in Georgian England and in the early colony at Sydney Cove. The First Fleet piano is placed within the musical and social contexts for which it was created, and narratives of the individuals whose lives have been touched by the instrument are woven together into an account of the First Fleet piano’s conjunction with the forces of history. View ‘The First Fleet Piano: Volume Two Appendices’. Note: Volume 1 and 2 are sold as a set ($180 for both) and cannot be purchased separately.

Lost Pipe Organs of Australia

Author : Geoffrey Cox,Kelvin Hastie,John Maidment
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781543403305

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Lost Pipe Organs of Australia by Geoffrey Cox,Kelvin Hastie,John Maidment Pdf

This book has been published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the Organ Historical Trust of Australia in 1977. It provides a pictorial record of pipe organs in Australia that have been lost through various agencies. Some have simply been removed and broken up, others have been destroyed by fire, and others have been rebuilt beyond visual or tonal recognition. This book is not intended to provide a comprehensive account of such instruments, but rather a selective representation of those for which suitable images have survived. Insofar as individual organs can be accurately dated, the images are arranged in chronological order. These have been sourced from public and private collections, and many are published here for the first time.

The Organ

Author : Douglas Earl Bush,Richard Kassel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
ISBN : 9780415941747

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The Organ by Douglas Earl Bush,Richard Kassel Pdf

Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments that predated the piano. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instruments from around the world.

Twentieth-Century Organ Music

Author : Christopher S. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136497902

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Twentieth-Century Organ Music by Christopher S. Anderson Pdf

This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the instrument and its music. The twentieth-century was a time of unprecedented change for organ music, not only in its composition and performance but also in the standards of instrument design and building. Organ music was anything but immune to the complex musical, intellectual, and socio-political climate of the time. Twentieth-Century Organ Music examines the organ's repertory from the entire period, contextualizing it against the background of important social and cultural trends. In a collection of twelve essays, experienced scholars survey the dominant geographic centers of organ music (France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the United States, and German-speaking countries) and investigate the composers who made important contributions to the repertory (Reger in Germany, Messiaen in France, Ligeti in Eastern and Central Europe, Howells in Great Britain). Twentieth-Century Organ Music provides a fresh vantage point from which to view one of the twentieth century's most diverse and engaging musical spheres.

150 Years of Pyrmont Peninsula

Author : Colin F. Fowler
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781925486902

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150 Years of Pyrmont Peninsula by Colin F. Fowler Pdf

St Bede's Catholic Church in Pyrmont Street is the oldest, continuously functioning church on the Pyrmont peninsula. The Sydney Morning Herald article on the laying of the foundation stone (7/2/1867) stated that, when completed, the new church would be "a very neat and elegant structure".

The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600-1830

Author : Michael I. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351545747

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The Chamber Organ in Britain, 1600-1830 by Michael I. Wilson Pdf

The first edition of The English Chamber Organ was published in 1968. This new, revised edition takes into account the considerable research into chamber organs that has taken place over the last thirty years. Much of the book has been completely rewritten and expanded, and it includes a number of organs not detailed in the first edition. As its revised title suggests, this new edition covers foreign-make imports as well as British-made organs that were sent overseas. Part one comprises a series of chapters that cover the history of the chamber organ, its origins and development. Part two provides a general introduction to the construction of organs, while part three gives detailed descriptions of 196 British chamber organs, with information on their location, specifications, design, and suggestions for further reading. As a domestic instrument the chamber organ was often perceived to be as much a piece of furniture as an item of musical equipment. The Chamber Organ in Britain offers an assessment of the organ as both a musical instrument and as a decorative icon.

The American Organist

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015027689226

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Handbook of Materials for Wind Musical Instruments

Author : Voichita Bucur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030191757

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Handbook of Materials for Wind Musical Instruments by Voichita Bucur Pdf

This book addresses key questions about the materials used for the wind instruments of classical symphony orchestra such as flutes, clarinets, saxophones, oboes, bassoons and pipe organs. The content of this book is structured into four parts. Part 1- Description of materials for wind instruments deals with wood species and materials for reeds used for making clarinet, oboe and bassoon- and, with metallic materials and alloys for - horn, trumpet, trombone, etc. Auxiliary materials associated with the manufacturing of wind instruments are felt, cork, leather and parchment. Part 2- Basic acoustics of wind instruments, in which are presented succinctly, some pertinent aspects related to the physics of the resonant air column. An important aspect discussed is related to the effect of wall material on the vibration modes of the walls of wind instruments. The methods for measuring the acoustical properties of wind instruments are presented. Part 3- Manufacturing of wind instruments, describes the technology used in manufacturing metallic tubes and pipes made of wood. Part 4 - The durability and degradation of materials addresses data about methods for cleaning wind instruments, studies factors producing degradation of organ pipes, describes methods of conservation and restoration of brass instruments and of historical pipe organs. Finally, the properties of marble are described, being the only one nondegradable and sustainable material used for pipes for organs.

Upside Down World

Author : Penny Olsen
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Amphibians
ISBN : 9780642277060

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Upside Down World by Penny Olsen Pdf

Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Eurocentric perceptions of natural history led to the flora and fauna of the new colony of New South Wales being viewed as deficient and inferior. The swans of the colony were black and eagles white, birds built shell-strewn avenues of sticks to cavort in and parrots walked on the ground. The mammals carried their young in a pouch and there were furred animals that laid eggs. This 'miscellany of the curious' fuelled the rage for Australian natural history amongst the upper classes of Europe, bringing income and, occasionally, fame to its collectors and documenters. On the ground, in the colony, it contributed to great change for the animals and, in some cases, extinction. In Upside Down World author Penny Olsen documents how our scientific knowledge evolved, using collectors' and naturalists' journals to enhance her stories.