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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"pipe organ"”.
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Technology in Society: The Pipe Organ in Early Modern England
… in early modern England: the silencing of pipe organs in cathedrals and parish churches across the land. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this ecclesiastical instrument figuratively embodied and literally gave voice to the Roman Catholic Church. Because this ancient …
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The Theatre Pipe Organ: An Overview. Considerations of History & Performance Practice
… with a tremendous grandeur—the Theatre Pipe Organ. The theatre organ is an instrument whose origins exist within the realms of traditional church organ building, a field of musical and technological development itself spanning hundreds of years, but one which was aligned with the …
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Philosophies of Pipe Organ Preservation: Case Studies of Three Churches In Columbia, South Carolina
… in Columbia, South Carolina in relation to their pipe organs. Existing scholarship on historic pipe organs focuses on their technical conservation as well as their significance to the history of music and organbuilding. These three case studies demonstrate the need for evaluating historic pipe …
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The effects of centrifugal blowers, control valves, attenuating devices and reservoir resonance on organ pipe flutter
… this research is to investigate the noticeable organ pipe flutter that may, under certain conditions, exist on a sounding organ pipe. The effectiveness of a pipe organ wind system is notoriously difficult to predict. For many years pipe organ builders have been aware of organ pipe flutter and …
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The Organ As Catalyst For Theological Change: The History and Role of the Organ At Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Charleston, South Carolina
<p>In 1841, a pipe organ was installed in the balcony of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE), Charleston, South Carolina. The presence of this instrument caused a controversy between traditionalists, who opposed instrumental music in the synagogue, and reformers, who accepted or promoted instrumental …
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Thwarted Patterns in the Organ Music of Alan Hovhaness
… composer, he wrote only a handful of solo pipe organ works primarily in the last twenty years of his life. Through the application of modern theoretical devices to Hovhaness’s treatment of half-diminished seventh chords, scales, and voice leading within his solo organ works, certain …
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Popular idioms in select organ works of Naji Hakim, Jon Laukvik, and Wolf-Günter Leidel
… discussing its implications in works for the pipe organ. This document will explore the ways in which three contemporary composers borrow various stylistic elements to merge compositional styles of the past with popular music genres of the twentieth century in their organ works. Naji Hakim’s …
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Organ compositions for pedals alone
… was to add to the body of knowledge concerning pipe organ literature by locating and describing compositions for pedals alone. The search was made with indexes, abstracts, organ literature bibliographies, Union Catalogues, on-line computer services, correspondence with publishers, and an …
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Sinfonietta for wind ensemble augmented with string quartet
… of the human voice as well as the sound of a pipe organ, the timbre of which is emulated at the piece's final climax.
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Addressing performance anxiety in organists through pedagogical guidance
… emotional attributes is a daunting task for any organist. The techniques with which an organist consolidates these attributes have a direct effect on the accomplishment of a definitive goal – a successful music performance. However, this portrays the ideal situation. There is a myriad of internal …