† Denotes texts that will likely be required in other courses in the Division of Organ and Church Music.
REQUIRED TEXT
for purchase
Shannon, John R. Understanding the Pipe Organ: A Guide for Students, Teachers and Lovers of the Instrument. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2009.
ML 552.S43 2009 / Purchase Here
REQUIRED READINGS
Class handouts
An Annotated Bibliography. Acoustics for Liturgy: A Collection of Articles of the Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada. Meeting House Essays, no. 2, 60-64.
Purchase Here
Bedient, Gene, and Paul Lytle. “Bedient Organ Company, Lincoln, Nebraska.” The American Organist, 44, no. 8 (August 2010): 34-36.
† Bicknell, Stephen. “The Organ Case.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Organ, Nicholas Thistlewaite and Geoffrey Webber, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
ML550.C35 1998 / Purchase Here
Brombaugh, Mark. “Size and Specification,” a case study from an organ consultation.
Fisk, Charles B. “The Organ’s Breath of Life.” The Diapason, 9 (1968).
Fleisher, Dennis. “An Acoustician’s View: Acoustics for Congregational Singing.” In Acoustics for Liturgy: A Collection of Articles of the Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada. Meeting House Essays, no. 2, 33-40. Purchase Here
King, Ross. “The Scaling and Construction of Organ Pipes.” The American Organist (March 1986).
Organ Stop Dictionary. Complied by Michael Bauer.
Taylor, George. “An Organ Builder’s View: Acoustics and Organs.” In Acoustics for Liturgy: A Collection of Articles of the Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada. Meeting House Essays, no. 2, 33-40. Purchase Here
Vogt, Kevin. “The Embodiment of Harmony: A History of Organs in the Roman Catholic Cathedrals of Omaha Culminating in an Organ by Martin Pasi with Two Temperaments.” D.M.A. diss., University of Kansas, 2007. [CD]
OTHER REQUIRED TEXTS
On reserve in the Music Library
Fesperman, John. The Organ as Musical Medium. New York: Coleman-Ross, 1962. Purchase Here (Reserve copies also may be available for purchase at the end of the course.)
Fesperman, John. Two Essays on Organ Design. Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1975. Purchase Here (Reserve copies also may be available for purchase at the end of the course.)
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
On reserve in the Music Library
Blanton, Joseph Edwin. The Organ in Church Design. Albany, TX: Venture Press, 1957. Purchase Here
Bush, Douglas E., and Richard Kassel, ed. The Organ: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2006. Purchase Here
Edwards, Lynn, ed. The Historical Organ in America: A Documentary of Recent Organs Based on European & American Models. Easthampton, MA: The Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, 1992. Purchase Here
† Hurford, Peter. Making Music on the Organ. Cambridge Introductions to Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Purchase Here
Norrback, Johan. A Passable and Good Temperament: A New Methodology for Studying Tuning and Temperament in Organ Music. Studies from the Department of Musicology, Göteborg University, No. 70, 2002. Purchase Here
Padgham, Charles A. The Well-Tempered Organ. Oxford: Positif Press, 1986. Purchase Here
Wilson, Michael I. Organ Cases of Western Europe. Montclair, NJ: Abner Schram, 1979. Purchase Here
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