The organ from its invention in the Hellenistic period to the end of the thirteenth century / Jean Perrot, docteur ès Lettres ; adapted from the French ; translated by Norma Deane.
| Author/creator | Perrot, Jean |
| Other author | Deane, Norma, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1971. |
| Description | xxviii, 317 pages, 28 plates : illustrations, facsimiles, music ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Orgue, de ses origines hellénistiques à la fin du XIIIe siècle. English |
| Contents | The organ in the ancient world: The invention of the organ. The Alexandrian background ; Who invented the organ? ; Where and when Ktesibios lived ; The character and reputation of Ktesibios ; Philo of Byzantium and hero of Alexandria -- The hydraulic organ. Preliminary inventions ; Hero's description ; Vitruvius's description -- The Graeco-Roman organ : the evidence of the texts. To the middle of the first century A.D. ; The second century A.D. ; The first appearance of the bellows organ ; The third century A.D. ; The fourth century A.D. ; The fifth and sixth centuries A.D. -- The Graeco-Roman organ : iconographical evidence. The organ with orchestra and human figures ; The organ with human figures ; The organ alone -- The Graeco-Roman organ : archaeological evidence. The 'organs' in the Museo Nazionale, Naples ; The organ in the Aquincum Museum -- Graeco-Roman music. Musical theory and notation ; The status of music ; Musical instruments -- The Graeco-Roman organ : the pipes and their tuning -- The hydraulic organ. Some theoretical considerations ; The hydraulis reconstructed -- The Graeco-Roman organ : a synthesis. The hygraulic organ ; The bellows organ ; The organ as a solo and orchestral instrument ; The organists -- |
| Contents | The organ in the middle ages. The organ and the eastern empire. The historical background ; The Byzantine organ ; The ceremonial use of the organ ; Organs at the palace : the golden tree ; Organists ; Appreciation of organ music -- The organ in the Arab world. The historical background ; The organ presented to Shih Tsu ; Muristus and pseudo-Jerome ; Musical automata -- The organ in Western Europe from the eighth to the tenth centuries. The return of the organ ; Georgius the organ-builder ; "Organum hydraulicum' in medieval texts ; The church's attitude to the organ ; The organ in the ninth and tenth centuries -- Techniques in organ-building in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The organ at Winchester ; The treatises of Theophilus and the anonymous of Berne ; Making the pipes ; The wind-chest and manual ; The bellows and collector ; Siting the organ ; Measuring and tuning the pipes ; Scales and tessitura -- The organ in western Europe from the eleventh to the thirteenth century. The organ in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; The organ in the thirteenth century ; Aspects of performance ; The cymbalum -- Some illustrations of the medieval organ -- The organ and organum -- Conclusion -- Appendix, Original texts concerning the hydraulis and the medieval organ. Hero of Alexandria ; Vitruvius ; Theophilus ; Anonymous of Berne ; Aribo. |
| General note | French edition published in 1965 under title: L'orgue de ses origines hellénistiques a la fin du XIIIe siècle. |
| LCCN | 77027072 |
| ISBN | 0193184184 |
| Stock number | £8.50 |
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