The Organ, Its History and Construction: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ, with Specifications and Suggestive Details for Instruments of All Sizes, intended as a Handbook for the Organist and Amateur. Preceded by an entirely New History of the Organ, memoirs of the most eminent builders of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and other matters of research in connection with the subject, by Edward F. Rimbault

Published by London. Robert Cocks & Co. 1870, 1870

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Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, CanadaJ. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC)

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thick sm4to, 25.5cm, second edition, xxxi, 588p., folding frontis diagram (general section of an organ), 17 woodcuts, 103 figures on the construction of the organ, appendix, indexes, subscription list, maroon cloth, gilt spine titles , gilt device and blind decoration on the upper cover, expertly restored, new endpapers, fine copy (ds1) Hopkins's (1801-1901), compositions included some 160 chants and hymn tunes, and he was one of the first to issue a series of elaborate arrangements for the organ. For the services at the Temple Church he arranged and edited a Book of Responses, and a collection of chants, all of which were incorporated in the Temple Church Choral Service Book (1867) and the Temple Psalter (1883). His historical prefaces to the Temple service books contained much scholarly research. He also edited Purcell's organ music and several volumes for the Musical Antiquarian Society, and contributed many articles on music to the press. Hopkins was a recognized authority on organ construction, and was perhaps best known for his book The Organ, its History and Construction (1855). DNB.…

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Title
The Organ, Its History and Construction: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ, with Specifications and Suggestive Details for Instruments of All Sizes, intended as a Handbook for the Organist and Amateur. Preceded by an entirely New History of the Organ, memoirs of the most eminent builders of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and other matters of research in connection with the subject, by Edward F. Rimbault
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HOPKINS, Edward J.
Publisher
London. Robert Cocks & Co. 1870
Publication year
1870
Binding
Hardcover

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