ABSTRACT

Studies in English Organ Music is a collection of essays by expert authors that examines key areas of the repertoire in the history of organ music in England. The essays on repertoire are placed alongside supporting studies in organ building and liturgical practice in order to provide a comprehensive contextualization. An analysis of the symbiotic relationship between the organ, liturgy, and composers reveals how the repertoire has been shaped by these complementary areas and developed through history. This volume is the first collection of specialist studies related to the field of English organ music.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

part 1|53 pages

Instruments

part 3|198 pages

Repertoire

chapter 4|25 pages

English organ music, 1350–1550

A study of sources and contexts

chapter 7|19 pages

The organ concerto

Some considerations of evolution and context

chapter 8|21 pages

The organ music of Samuel Wesley and William Russell

Context, content and style

chapter 9|21 pages

From Adams to Wesley

The transition from late Georgian to early Victorian organ music

chapter 10|27 pages

Romanticism, pedagogy and the English organ

The discourse of concert and ecclesiastical repertoire – Best, Stainer, Stanford and Parry